Getting URL text from browsers

[fuzz]

I'm currently working on a small project which will grab the text from the URL boxes in the browser window. I'm creating my own as an experiment and to also watch what other people are using my computer for. As of right now, I can only get the URL from IE, not Firefox or Opera. There may be an issue with the way those two browsers display the text since it's tabbed.

If anyone can help out with those two browsers it would be greatly appreciated it.

VB.NET 2005 Code for getting the IE URL text:

Dim workerw, ieframe, rebarwindow As Integer
Dim combobox, comboboxex, editx As Integer
ieframe = FindWindow("ieframe", vbNullString)
workerw = FindWindowEx(ieframe, 0, "workerw", vbNullString)
rebarwindow = FindWindowEx(workerw, 0, "rebarwindow32", vbNullString)
comboboxex = FindWindowEx(rebarwindow, 0, "comboboxex32", vbNullString)
combobox = FindWindowEx(comboboxex, 0, "combobox", vbNullString)
editx = FindWindowEx(combobox, 0, "edit", vbNullString)
Dim TheText As String
Dim TL As Integer
TL = SendMessageLong(editx, WM_GETTEXTLENGTH, 0, 0)
TheText = New String(" ", TL + 1)
Call SendMessageByString(editx, WM_GETTEXT, TL + 1, TheText)
TheText = VB.Left(TheText, TL)

Also, if someone knows of an easier way of doing this task, please post. I'm new to VB.NET 2005 but I've been using VB since version 3.0. I haven't learned all of the new things in 2005 yet but I'm getting there.

 

[JohnH]

Have a look a this article/source code, he seems to be getting URLs from all browsers: http://www.vbarchiv.net/archiv/tipp_937.html

It's in German, but the code should be helpful anyway. If not, 'Schade' - it was the only one I could find

Btw, you can get not-to-bad translations of different languages text at Google Translate http://www.google.com/translate_t

 

[fuzz]

JohnH:
Thanks for the reply and the link. I tested that code out exactly as it was and it produces the same results for Firefox and Opera. It returns nothing for those two browsers. Both could have changed something from when this code was posted due to security issues, just an idea. Thanks again though.