I have been attacking this issue with a number of tools, but information
has seemed to be hard to come by. By all appearances, the Microsoft
SmartClient contains a Web Browser control (shdocvw.dll?). It is this
control to which I believe I have to attach. But using existing Watir
methods, this is not possible because Watir only attaches to top-level
windows via WIN32OLE.new("Shell.Application"). I am trying to find a way
to return a WIN32OLE object for the embedded browser control. Below is
an example of the window structure of the application in question
(company name replaced with "TheCompany"). The following consists of
hWnd, window title (caption), and class name. Spaces are used to
indicate nesting level. So for example, the top-level window is the
SmartClient window with caption "TheComapny", hWnd 0005046C. By all
appearances, the browser control then would be class name Shell
DocObject View, hWnd 000104F0.
0005046C "TheCompany" WindowsForms10.Window.8.app.0.378734a
0005046E "toolStrip1" WindowsForms10.Window.8.app.0.378734a
00050456 "" WindowsForms10.EDIT.app.0.378734a
00050472 "0439-" WindowsForms10.EDIT.app.0.378734a
00050482 "" WindowsForms10.Window.8.app.0.378734a
00070470 "" WindowsForms10.SysTabControl32.app.0.378734a
00070466 "" Message Information"
WindowsForms10.Window.8.app.0.378734a
000104EE "" WindowsForms10.Window.8.app.0.378734a
0027040E "" WindowsForms10.Window.8.app.0.378734a
0008048E "" WindowsForms10.Window.8.app.0.378734a
00080444 "" Shell Embedding
000104F0 "" Shell DocObject View
000204EC "" Internet Explorer_Server
00050478 "MenuStrip" WindowsForms10.Window.8.app.0.378734a
0005046A "StatusStrip" WindowsForms10.Window.8.app.0.378734a
00060460 "" WindowsForms10.msctls_progress32.app.0.378734a
00050454 "" WindowsForms10.MDICLIENT.app.0.378734a
But: where to go from here? If I can just hook this browser control as
with IE, I am home free.
Lonny Eachus
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