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MakeActiveXClass and MSHTML - 2 problems...

Peter Sparago psparago at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 5 19:13:48 EDT 2004 
I have been mostly successful in embedding the Microsoft MSHTML editor
in a python application. However, there are two issues that are
driving me bananas.

Issue 1:
I can't set focus to the editor control. Since the ActiveX wrapper
extends wx.Window, if I do something like:

self.editor.SetFocus

it returns false. Has anyone been able to programmatically set focus
to the MSHTML editor control?

Issue 2:
I want to be able to query the IHTMLDocument object (interface) that
MakeActiveXClass generates for the ICustomDoc interface (in order to
take control of the right-click context menu). However, QueryInterface
is NOT supported by the IHTMLDocument object (I did a dir(self.editor)
to prove it - no QueryInterface). Has anyone queried the ActiveX
object for another interface it implements?

Thanks
peter
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