Open web page in Internet Explorer

Question

Hello,
I am trying to open a webpage using IE with labview 7. I wrote a vi
using ActiveX controls. My problem is IE opens, but it opens
underneath all of the LabVIEW windows. I searched online, and I found
an example from NI that was similar to my code, however, it still does
not open IE as the top window. Is there anyway to make the IE window
the top window?
The NI example is located here:
http://sine.ni.com/apps/we/niepd_web_display.DISPLAY_EPD4?p_guid=B123AE0CB9AD111EE034080020E74861&p_node=DZ52051&p_submitted=N&p_rank=&p_answer=&p_source=External
Thank You,
Sean Reminga
Purdue PRIME Lab
[email protected]

Answer 1

Two things you could try.
Drop a property node and set the VI Server Class to 'VI'. Then select as the property either "Front Panel Window>Is Frontmost" and create a false constant for the property or "Front Panel Window>State" and create a constant and set it to Minimized.
Run this property node after you open the browser window and your VI should either remove itself from the front position or minimize itself.
Ed
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