Weird issue with embedded IE controls

[Sigmate]

Hi,

I'm having a weird experience when using more than one instance of an IE (actually Shell.Explorer.2, through IE.au3 functions) COM object.

I'd need to have at least two embedded IE controls into a single GUI (but for testing purpose, I also tried to put each instance into a separate window).

The code below simply opens two GUI windows with a unique IE control inside each one. To reproduce what seems to be a bug, I invite you to try to do a copy/paste operation using your keyboard into the Google search fields opened in the IE controls. You'll rapidly observe that the first IE instace receive ALL copy/paste events, which makes it impossible to copy/paste something from one control to another one (which is my primary need for my application, actually).

Despite many hours spent searching solutions and explainations about this strange behavior, I failed to find anything.

Does anybody have any clue ?

Thanks in advance !

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#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <IE.au3>

;------------------------------------------------------------------------

$mainwindow = GUICreate("Win1", 640, 480)

_IEErrorHandlerRegister ()

$EmbeddedIEObject1 = _IECreateEmbedded ()
$GUIActiveXCtrl1 = GUICtrlCreateObj($EmbeddedIEObject1, 10, 10, 620, 460)
GUICtrlSetResizing($GUIActiveXCtrl1, $GUI_DOCKAUTO)
_IENavigate ($EmbeddedIEObject1, "http://www.google.com/")

;------------------------------------------------------------------------

$secondarywindow = GUICreate("Win2", 640, 480)

$EmbeddedIEObject2 = _IECreateEmbedded ()
$GUIActiveXCtrl2 = GUICtrlCreateObj($EmbeddedIEObject2, 10, 10, 620, 460)
GUICtrlSetResizing($GUIActiveXCtrl2, $GUI_DOCKAUTO)
_IENavigate ($EmbeddedIEObject2, "http://www.google.com/")

;------------------------------------------------------------------------

GUISwitch($mainwindow)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

GUISwitch($secondarywindow)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

;------------------------------------------------------------------------

While 1
    
  $msg = GUIGetMsg(1)

  Select

    Case $msg[0] = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
        
        Exit
        
    EndSelect
    
WEnd

[DaleHohm]

Untortunately it is an open bug: http://www.autoitscript.com/trac/autoit/ticket/110

Dale