IE and ShellExecute

[Senach]

Howdy all.

I've got two questions for you scripting powers that be:

1) Ok, Im confused (but this time Im fairly sure its not something I did wrong! ). I was playing with the various _IE functions trying to do a little script that would create an IE kiosk and would reopen it anytime it was closed. While I was doing this, I found the ShellExecute command that, when I tested it on my desk machine with this code:

ShellExecute("C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe")

it worked perfectly. I then moved to my test machine and kept getting ShellExecute undefined function errors. I figured that I just hadnt updated Autoit and SciTE lately, so I did and now on the test machine ShellExecute is just opening an IE window that is most defiantly not behaving like a shell. Is this a change caused by different versions, or is it a windows thing?

My desk machine is running Autoit: 3.2.6.0 and SciTE: 1.74

My test machine is running Autoit: 3.2.10.0 and SciTe: 1.75

Question 2) the reason I was playing with this is I was trying to get this script to make IE behave like it was running in kiosk mode. I know about adding the /k switch after a run command, but I cant figure out how to do that with a _IECreate command. And Ive found out that if I dont have the _IECreate making the IE instance, the following _IEPropertySets dont activate.

; *******************************************************
;       ***Opac 'ie shell' loop v2***
;   this creates an endless loop where if the ie window
;   is closed, it reopens back to the catalog.
;               Mike W. 04/02/2008
; *******************************************************
;
#include <IE.au3>

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 2) ;1=start, 2=subStr, 3=exact, 4=advanced, -1 to -4=Nocase
;above changes the matching for the winactivate below to match on just part of the title of the window

sleep(5000)
While 1
;below line commented out cause it's not doing what I want.
;$oIE = ShellExecute("C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe")

$oIE  = _IECreate ("catalog.mrrl.org")
_IEPropertySet ($oIE, "addressbar", "0")
_IEPropertySet ($oIE, "menubar", "0")
_IEPropertySet ($oIE, "toolbar", "0")
_IEPropertySet ($oIE, "contenteditable", "0")
_IEPropertySet ($oIE, "theatermode", "0")


sleep(2000)
WinActivate("Windows Internet Explorer", "")

WinSetOnTop("Windows Internet Explorer", "", 1);1=set on top flag, 0 = remove on top flag

 WinWaitNotActive("Microsoft Internet Explorer")
 
 Wend

The script is working fine - except for not being kiosked. So as always.... all help, suggestions, and criticism are very welcome.

Thanks!

[DaleHohm]

If you need to work on an existing IE instance, see _IEAttach

Don't know what you mean by "not behaving like a shell".

Dale