How to know if InternetExplorer control has finished loading a multiframe web page

[Rinku2010]

Hi All

I am trying to open a web page using InternetExplorer object in VB6 and I want to set it visible (and extract data from it) only after all its frames are done loading. I have written a function waitFor() to check if the object is still busy. But it is not working well.

I have included the code below.

Can any one please give me any idea about how to solve this problem.
Thanks in Advance.

' ----------- CODE ----------
Private Function waitFor(ByRef obj As InternetExplorer, Optional duration As Integer = 15) As Integer
    ' This function should wait for the webpage till it gets loaded or throws error
    ' then it returns the approprate error code
    
    Dim OK, ERROR, TIMEOUT As Integer 
    OK = 1
    ERROR = 2
    TIMEOUT = 3
    
    Dim StartTime As Date
    StartTime = Now

    ' Wait for the webpage while it loads completely or some error occures
label1:
    Do While obj.ReadyState <> READYSTATE_COMPLETE And (Now - StartTime) <= duration
        DoEvents
    Loop

    If obj.Busy Then GoTo label1

    If (Now - StartTime) >= duration Then ' TIME OUT
        waitFor = TIMEOUT
    ElseIf obj.Document.title = "ERROR: The requested URL could not be retrieved" Then ' ERROR
        waitFor = ERROR
    ElseIf obj.Document.title = "" Then ' ERROR, Other conditions may also be added here
        waitFor = ERROR
    Else
        waitFor = OK
    End If
End Function

'--------------------
Private Sub Command1_Click()

    Dim obj As New InternetExplorer
    Dim status as Integer
    Dim OK, ERROR, TIMEOUT As Integer 

    OK = 1
    ERROR = 2
    TIMEOUT = 3

    obj.Navigate2 "http://nseindia.com/"

    status = waitFor(obj)

    If status = OK Then
        obj.Visible = True
        ' Do something else
    Else
        MsgBox("Error")
    EndIf

End Sub

' -----------END CODE -----

[vb5prgrmr]

Just use a...

Do While WB.ReadyState <> READYSTATE_COMPLETE
  DoEvents
Loop

Good Luck

[HanneSThEGreaT]

Welcome to the forums Rinku2010.

When posting your code, please make sure to do so within [CODE] and [/CODE] tags.

[WoF]

Hey, Hannes, how did you manage to write out the tags literally?

[HanneSThEGreaT]

Hello my friend!

You just write &#
then 091; next to it, so it must be on the same line without any spaces

That is the shortcut key for the [ sign in HTML
after you have written the HEX code, you just write CODE] exactly after it.

Voila!

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[Rinku2010]

Welcome to the forums Rinku2010.

When posting your code, please make sure to do so within

 and

tags.

Hi Hannes,
Thank you for your reply and for advise about

 and

. The code you provided will work only in case of web sites which have one frame. But I am working with a web site with multiple frames. And I want to wait till all my frames are done loading. After that I will do some other processing on the data. During my work, I also have to navigate other web pages, which do have more than one frame and in each case I to wait until all frames are done.
Any suggestion

[dglienna]

Here's most of it. It also grabs images from the frames it finds (elsewhere)

' ==============================

Private Declare Function URLDownloadToFile Lib "urlmon" Alias _
    "URLDownloadToFileA" (ByVal pCaller As Long, ByVal szURL As String, _
    ByVal szFileName As String, ByVal dwReserved As Long, ByVal lpfnCB As _
    Long) As Long

Dim colDocuments As Collection

' ==============================

Private Sub Form_Load()
Dim objDoc1 As HTMLDocument
Dim objDoc2 As HTMLDocument
Dim i As Integer
Dim t As Integer
Set objDoc1 = New HTMLDocument
'Create document element from url
Set objDoc2 = objDoc1.createDocumentFromUrl("http://www.hamcams.com", vbNullString)

'Wait till document has loaded
Do While objDoc2.readyState <> "interactive"
    DoEvents
Loop
GetFrames
'Loop through images
For t = 1 To colDocuments.Count
  For i = 0 To objDoc2.images.length - 1
      'download images and save them in app.path
      URLDownloadToFile 0, objDoc2.images.Item(i).href, App.Path & "\Images\" & GetFile(objDoc2.images.Item(i).href), 0, 0
  Next i
Next t
Set objDoc1 = Nothing
Set objDoc2 = Nothing
Beep
End Sub


Private Sub GetFrames()
'Purpose: searches all frames in the document(s) and adds them to colDocuments
On Error Resume Next
Dim i As Integer, j As Integer
j = 1

Set colDocuments = New Collection
colDocuments.Add WebBrowser1.document

Do While j < colDocuments.Count + 1
    For i = 0 To colDocuments.Item(j).frames.length - 1
        colDocuments.Add colDocuments.Item(j).frames.Item(i).document
    Next i
    j = j + 1
Loop
End Sub