Webbrowser - why's the taskbar flashing ?

[TamaraMJ]

hi
what's going on ?
I put a webbrowser control on a VB-form, which should make me able to download HTML-documents in the background while using other Applications in the foreground

now what happens is:
anyway if i have that form minimized or on normal size.. the webbrowser form is annoyingly starting of trying to get the focus
every time it has completed downloading a page

in 'minimized'-mode the taskbar is blinking
in 'normal'-mode the focus is taken away from whatever application i run

as i figured this always happens when the
Webbrowser.DocumentComplete event is fired (??)

i'm not sure about, but does anyone know how to get rid of this ?
thanks
Tamara

forgive me.. i'm blonde...lol

[John G Duffy]

My experiences with multiple versions of Windows shows these phenomenon showed up in the later releases. Windows 95 did not have this problem, but my Windows ME does. It does not appear to be related to VB or any of its controls.

John G

[TamaraMJ]

hmm yeeesss maybe that's true that newer versions since Win95 behave like that
I recognized that with the WEBBROWSER control, and with no other component except
msgbox methods so far, while running minimized

so in my opinion it's a typical WEBBROWSER thingy and i would like to know if anyone has an idea how to get rid of this ugly flashing

so what is exactly causing a taskbar item to flash
or what is causing an application to grab the focus, on what reason (except a popped up MSGBOX) ?

Tam <-- puzzled look in face

forgive me.. i'm blonde...lol