Help with URL showing in IE window when toolbar set to False

[MuffinMan]

I am trying to write a script to open a webpage in IE in a fairly small window.  I want the IE window to be as uncluttered as possible with little/no room for the user to naviagate away from the page.

Whenever I use _IEPropertySet to set the toolbar to False, it places the URL before the document title of the page.  I don't want the URL in the title, just the actual title.  I am assuming this is an IE thing, but has anyone found a way to overcome this behavior? This script will interact with another web app, and that app only runs on IE8, so that is what I have been testing with.

#include <IE.au3>

_IEErrorNotify(True)

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 1)     ;1=start, 2=subStr, 3=exact, 4=advanced, -1 to -4=Noca
    $oIE = _IECreate ("about:blank",0,0)
    _IEPropertySet ($oIE, "addressbar", False)
    _IEPropertySet ($oIE, "menubar", False)
    _IEPropertySet ($oIE, "statusbar", False)
    _IEPropertySet ($oIE, "toolbar", False) ; Setting this to TRUE removes the URL from the title bar
    _IEPropertySet ($oIE, "height", 332)
    _IEPropertySet ($oIE, "width", 450)
    _IENavigate($oIE,"http://www.google.com",1)
    $oIE.visible = 1

I appreciate any ideas.

[MuffinMan]

Sorry for the double post, but no one has any ideas on this at all?  I just want the IE to load in a small window with no navigation with only the HTML title of the page showing, not the URL.

[jguinch]

Did you try _IECreateEmbedded ?

[JohnOne]

#include <IE.au3>

_IEErrorNotify(True)

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 1)     ;1=start, 2=subStr, 3=exact, 4=advanced, -1 to -4=Noca
    $oIE = _IECreate ("about:blank",0,0)
    _IEPropertySet ($oIE, "addressbar", False)
    _IEPropertySet ($oIE, "menubar", False)
    _IEPropertySet ($oIE, "statusbar", False)
    _IEPropertySet ($oIE, "toolbar", False) ; Setting this to TRUE removes the URL from the title bar
    _IEPropertySet ($oIE, "height", 332)
    _IEPropertySet ($oIE, "width", 450)
    _IENavigate($oIE,"http://www.google.com",1)
    $hwnd = _IEPropertyGet($oIE, "hwnd")
    WinSetTitle($hwnd, "", "My Google")
    $oIE.visible = 1

[JohnOne]

Did you try _IECreateEmbedded ?

 

Or kiosk mode set to child of gui.

Edited April 6, 2015 by JohnOne

[MuffinMan]

Thank you both for replying. 

@jguinch, I have not tried using IECreateEmbedded.  I am GUI phobic I guess, but worst-case I will sit down and see if I can figure it out.

@JohnOne, I really liked your first suggestion and I thought it was going to save my neck.  But if I interact with the page at all, as in delete a message and reload the same page, the URL pops right back up again.

"kiosk mode set to child of gui" is going over my head..  I know IE has a kiosk mode, but that opens full screen, so it's more the child of gui part I don't get.  If you're willing to explain a little further you certainly have my attention.

Thanks again.

[JohnOne]

Whenever you navigate or refresh, you can just add WinSetTitle($hwnd, "", "My Google")

Or WinGetText and a Regexp to remove url.

[MuffinMan]

Thanks again for the followup.  A user will be interacting with the webpage, so I wouldn't know exactly when to reset the WInSetTitle.  I did have some time to sit down today with creating a basic GUI frame and then using IECreateEmbedded to fill the GUI with my webpage.  Not as hairy as I was making it out to be.  I think that IECreateEmbedded will work just fine.