Question

I am doing some web scraping using excel vba.

At one point in my program my internet explorer instance opens an OpenFileDialog. I need to access this dialog and provide it with a filename. Is there a way to do this in vba?

My idea was to get the window handle (I’ve already done that) and then somehow get the object using the handle, but i cannot find a way to use the handle to access the window.

Answer 1

if you have the hWind of the dialag box, then the function

Private Declare Function PostMessage Lib "user32" Alias "PostMessageA" _
(ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal wMsg As Long, ByVal wParam As Long, _
 ByVal lParam As Long) As Long

will allow you to send keys to the application with

Debug.Print PostMessage(hWind, WM_KEYDOWN, vbKeyA, 0)

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