Changing the behaviour of Microsoft's HTML ActiveX control

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I am writing a class in C++ that provides HTML editor functionality. It is derived from CHtmlEditCtrl. Well actually it is based on this excellent article DHTML Editor with Table Support and Source Editor[^].

My problem is that the ActiveX control provided by Microsoft does not appear to be completely written. For example the command IDM_PROPERTIES should display a properties dialog. It does not. It just returns with success. Likewise IDM_REPLACE just displays a blank dialog.

Now I have no problem in extending the functionality to add these missing features. My problem is that the ActiveX control implements a right hand function that displays a context menu, which just happens to include a "Properties" entry. This, as you can guess, does absolutely nothing.

How can I change the behaviour of this ActiveX so that either it does not present this menu option, or so that it calls my implementation?

Posted 10-Sep-13 22:25pm

Anorexic Tribble

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max_nowak 11-Sep-13 4:58am

Maybe you should address this question directly to the writer of that article you took as role model

Anorexic Tribble 12-Sep-13 3:22am

Maybe I have !!! The problem is not specific to the author's article. It is a problem with the ActiveX control itself. Hence the question was targeted at a wider audience.

max_nowak 12-Sep-13 7:38am

Well, what I know is that there's a COM-interface called IDocHostUIHandler, whith whom you can change the behaviour of the browser control's context menu. But since I have no inside in your project I can't really say if your class structure allows you to implement this interface (probably one of your wrapper classes already does). Maybe this is helpful: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/4758/How-to-customize-the-context-menus-of-a-WebBrowser

Anorexic Tribble 13-Sep-13 10:07am

Brilliant, that was exactly what I needed. Easy to find when you know the name of it!!

max_nowak 14-Sep-13 17:14pm

No problem, glad I could help;)

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Anorexic Tribble · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-13T04:09:00

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Posted 13-Sep-13 4:09am

Anorexic Tribble