Internet Page Viewer In Access 2000 Form (I Think)

[SEAN DI''''ANNO]

Good afternoon, I am somewhat rusty in access but in short, I have been
tasked with creating a database to store details of possible acquisitions.
In essense, its probably just a simple form displaying basic information,
company name number of employees etc. but something I would like to do is
have a mini snapshot or live view of the companie's current web-page. I know
I could have a text box which hyper links to the compaies page and perhaps
have a picture of the site or link to the picture but I wanted sto do
something a bit more fancy. Is there a way of having a mini internet / web
page viewer within my form so that it could show the company being looked ta.
Any help would really be appreciated.

 

[Daniel Pineault]

Yes, insert a webbrowser ActiveX into your form.

Tools > ActiveX Controls > Microsoft Web Browser

 

[SEAN DI''''ANNO]

Hi Daniel.......Thanks for that, thats great. Just expanding on that a
little. Can the Active x object show the hole page (shrunk down) as if it
were a tiny monitor rather than see a fraction of the whole page with scroll
bars. If not...I guess my plan b is to have the Active x object on a form
which maximises when given focus?

Thanks in advance

 

[Daniel Pineault]

I'm not sure. I've only use the control on 1 ocassion for very limited use,
I didn't do much testing/fiddling.

Another alternative would be to have a field/control that has the website
url and a button 'Open Website' which uses the 'Application.FollowHyperlink
"SitesURL"' Method to open it in their default browser. Then they can work
normally with it and you don't need to worry anout focus scroll bars....

'Application.FollowHyperlink "http://www.google.com"
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Hope this helps,

Daniel Pineault
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