WebBrowser - VB getting text from page

I have a VB6 program which downloads a web page (using VB6 WebBrowser) and
needs to get the text from the page.

I have looked at the WebBrowser structure, and found the text from the page
in several parts of the structure. I therefore decided to use
'wb1.Document.body.InnerText' ...

p = InStr ( wb1.Document.body.InnerText, str)

Is this the correct / best way to access the web page datwa? Will this work
an client machine which have different versions of IE?

Any  help appreciated.

thanks

Garry

The Inet control is easier and quicker for this purpose. Unlike the
WebBrowser, Inet doesn't render the page; it just retrieves it.

pText = Inet.OpenURL(http://www.....)



"Garry" <newsgroup@questinfo.com> wrote in message
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> I have a VB6 program which downloads a web page (using VB6 WebBrowser) and
> needs to get the text from the page.
>
> I have looked at the WebBrowser structure, and found the text from the
page
> in several parts of the structure. I therefore decided to use
> 'wb1.Document.body.InnerText' ...
>
>     p = InStr ( wb1.Document.body.InnerText, str)
>
> Is this the correct / best way to access the web page datwa? Will this
work
> an client machine which have different versions of IE?
>
> Any  help appreciated.
>
> thanks
>
> Garry
>
>

Jezebel

thanks for the Inet suggestion. How do I detect if it failed to get the
page - does it return Null or "" ?

Garry


"Jezebel" <madbastard@whitehouse.gov> wrote in message
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> The Inet control is easier and quicker for this purpose. Unlike the
> WebBrowser, Inet doesn't render the page; it just retrieves it.
>
> pText = Inet.OpenURL(http://www.....)
>
>
>
> "Garry" <newsgroup@questinfo.com> wrote in message
> news:41d33b96$0$23006$cc9e4d1f@news.dial.pipex.com... 
and 
> page 
> work 
>
>

Why not test it? Put in a wrong URL and see what happens...



"Garry" <newsgroup@questinfo.com> wrote in message
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> Jezebel
>
> thanks for the Inet suggestion. How do I detect if it failed to get the
> page - does it return Null or "" ?
>
> Garry
>
>
> "Jezebel" <madbastard@whitehouse.gov> wrote in message
> news:u9guwAg7EHA.824@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl... 
> and 
>
>

Look into the State Event to determine the status of a page 'loading'.

You could also use something like (air-code)

Inet.URL http://www.
Inet.Execute ,"GET"

Private Sub Inet_StateChanged(State as Long)

If State = 12 Then
'Get the page using the GetChunk method of the Inet control
End If

End Sub

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"Garry" <newsgroup@questinfo.com> wrote in message
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> Jezebel
>
> thanks for the Inet suggestion. How do I detect if it failed to get the
> page - does it return Null or "" ?
>
> Garry
>
>
> "Jezebel" <madbastard@whitehouse.gov> wrote in message
> news:u9guwAg7EHA.824@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl... 
> and 
>
>