Interfacing with Mozilla Firefox/Firebird

[gtzpower]

Hmm, in IE, i would enumchild windows after getting the main hWnd for IE, then use the sendmessage API to set the text of the address bar. In mozilla though, i can't seem to get an hWnd for the address bar. Not even SPY++ or WinSpy can lock on it. Anyone know how i could accomplish setting the address in mozilla? I will also need to be able to get the current address as well. thanks

[gtzpower]

Anyone??? :confused: :o :(

[HJB417]

Anyone??? :confused: :o :(

eh, you'll need to use "Microsoft Active Accessibility".

linky

 

I'm sorry I can't be of any further help.

[gtzpower]

eh, you'll need to use "Microsoft Active Accessibility".

linky

 

I'm sorry I can't be of any further help.

 

That was actually a lot of help. I got the MSAA Explorer from microsoft.com, and it found the address bar, along with MANY other things that SPY++ did not. I am not at home right now to play with it further, but does anyone know of any tutorials for using the MSAA SDK? Thanks again HJB417.

[HJB417]

eh, this may be of some use to you.

[gtzpower]

eh' date=' this may be of some use to you.

 

I am 100% lost. My compiler does not recognize "IAccessible" at all, and i seem to be having a hard time finding any further information on it.

[gtzpower]

I am 100% lost. My compiler does not recognize "IAccessible" at all' date=' and i seem to be having a hard time finding any further information on it.[/quote']

ok, i figured that out finally, i had to add the accessibility.dll file to my project, but now I can't access accessibility.iaccessible.get_accValue, or anything after iaccessible. any thoughts? there are no popups when i put a "." after iaccessible.

[HJB417]

The gecko dock recommneded the use of ienumvariant, unfortunately, I'm not having much success w/ it. You might be better of emailing netscape address listed at the bottom of the page and posting on the microsoft.dotnet newsgroups.

using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using Accessibility;

namespace FOoBar
{
[Guid("00020404-0000-0000-C000-000000000046"), InterfaceType(ComInterfaceType.InterfaceIsIUnknown)]
public interface IEnumVARIANT
{
	[PreserveSig]
	int Next(uint celt, [in, Out, MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPArray)] object []rgVar, out uint pceltFetched);

	[PreserveSig]
	int Skip(uint celt);
 
	[PreserveSig]
	int Reset();

	IEnumVARIANT Clone();
}

public class Class1
{
	[DllImport("oleacc.dll", PreserveSig=false)]
	[return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Interface)]
	public static extern object AccessibleObjectFromWindow(IntPtr hwnd, uint dwId, ref Guid riid);


	[sTAThread]
	public static void Main(string[] args)
	{
		Guid uid = new Guid("618736e0-3c3d-11cf-810c-00aa00389b71");
		IAccessible mozilla = (IAccessible) AccessibleObjectFromWindow(new IntPtr(0x000b0594), 0, ref uid);
		IEnumVARIANT ienum = (IEnumVARIANT) mozilla;
	}

	const int S_OK = 0x00000000;
	const int S_FALSE = 0x00000001;
}
}

[HJB417]

Hmm' date=' in IE, i would enumchild windows after getting the main hWnd for IE, then use the sendmessage API to set the text of the address bar. In mozilla though, i can't seem to get an hWnd for the address bar. Not even SPY++ or WinSpy can lock on it. Anyone know how i could accomplish setting the address in mozilla? I will also need to be able to get the current address as well. thanks[/quote']

 

 

Ok, I implemented a managed wrapper for the IAccessible object in c++.net. Unfortunately, that site I gave u states that there is no support for the 'put_accValue'. The url object thing is an editable text, and the text in the url thing can be retrieved using get_accValue. A call to put_accValue will succeed but the text is never changed.

 

THis is what I did though. Using the IAccessible object that represents the url text thingy, I called accSelect to give that object 'focus', and then call win32 SetForegroundWindow to bring the mozilla window to the top, and the use SendKeys::SendWait to replace the current text with whatever text I sent to the SendKeys::SendWait method. The current url can be retrieved by using get_accValue.

 

You enter the URL in IE using the same way I'm doing it for mozilla, so I guess this will do for now.