IE7 / IE8 Problem with Tabs

[magnifier512]

What I am looking for is a secure way to get the currently selected tab in an IE-Browser. I've searched the forum for several hours but could find a satisfying solution.

I tried checking for the active tab with WinGetState but it didn't work, because all my tabs have the same title and it returns the state of the first tab. Then I tried to set the titles of the tabs so that they are unique, witch brought me to believe WinGetState is useless on IE-Tabs because I always got a 7 form WinGetState.

Func _active_tab()
    $o_Shell = ObjCreate("Shell.Application")
    $ies = $o_Shell.Windows(); collection of all ShellWindows (IE and File Explorer)
    $count = 1
    For $oBrowser In $ies
        If _IEPropertyGet($oBrowser, "title") = "" Then ContinueLoop;my tabss do have a title
        $oBrowser.document.title = $count
        sleep(500)
        If BitAND(WinGetState($count), 8) <> 0 Then 
            MsgBox(0,$count, WinGetState($count) & @LF & _IEPropertyGet($oBrowser, "locationurl"))
            Return $oBrowser
        EndIf
        $count += 1
    Next
EndFunc

[DaleHohm]

IE works hard to hide the fact that a browser instance is in a tab (presumably for security reasons). In many cases you may be able to compare the windowtitle to the title since the windowtitle typically changes and includes the active document title at the beginning of the string.

Dale

[magnifier512]

Thx. At least I know now that this is an unwanted feature. To look for a certain title won't help, because in my case the windows/tabs realy do have the same. And even if not. What I tried to create are Buttons which navigate to certain pages in the active tab almost like bookmarks. Well, I guess I can stop working on this particular project then.

Edited August 4, 2009 by magnifier512