Send Tabs to MS Web Browser ActiveX Control

[minnellac]

Does anyone have any idea how to send tabs to the MS Web Browser ActiveX control? I've included an example 7.1 vi that contains an activex control, a url string control, and a few numerics just to demonstrate my problem. When run, the browser control will load yahoo.com (by default). When the user presses tab, I'd like to see the links in the web page get focus, not the controls in the LV vi. I'm open to changing browser controls if it would help. I've examined the documentation for the browser object (http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/browser/webbrowser/reference/objects/webbrowser.asp) but I haven't seen any methods that seem appropriate, though I may have missed something.

Any help would be appreciated.
Chris

[Chris_Cilino]

C.Minnella,

Unfortunately at this time there isn't a way that is native to LabVIEW for "Tabing focus". I also looked at Microsoft's web site and confirmed what you had found: there aren't any properties or methods that would seem to help out. But I think this would make a great product suggestion!

Best Regards,

Chris C

Applications Engineering

National Instruments

[minnellac]

Thanks for the feedback. Apparently this isn't a hot topic. I've taken your suggestion and submitted this as a product suggestion. I am sure this would have more value than just interacting with the Web Browser ActiveX control, but that is the only application I have for it right now. An alternative solution would be a native LV Browser control. For now, I will experiment with different browser controls to see if there is something better out there. A web browser is something that almost all users are familiar with; it is very confusing to use one that doesn't respond as you'd expect (particularly for entering form data). I may have to eliminate that functionality from my software and use a Load in Default browser call instead, but that significantly reduces the seamless integration between web site and stand-alone software that I was developing.

Chris