A rant and a request

Ok, first the rant:

I'm really bummed out that the browser object that comes with VB6 doesn't have an appearance property that allows you to set it flat instead of 3D. It always has that 3d border around it. Something else that extremly annoying is that it always displays the vertical scroll bar even when the HTLM page being viewed doesn't span beyond the top and bottom of the browser object.

Now the request:

Does anybody know of an alternative browser object that lets you display as flat instead of 3D and doesn't show the scroll bars unless the HTML page being viewed is larger than the browser object?

You could always subclass the control and make the changes yourself.

If I knew how to subclass objects, I could probably do that.

I'll do some studying in subclassing and see what I can learn.

In the meantime, does anyone know of any alternative browser objects to replace the one that comes with VB6?

Making a browser control is not that straight forward.
The browser control just wraps the Internet Explorer engine. Which is a very complex program.

You could try removing some of the windowstyles using GetWindowLong and SetWindowLong. For example WS_THICKFRAME and WS_VSCROLL might work. However, as Flyguy has mentioned, the browser object is a complex component which wraps the Internet Explorer engine, so whether this technique will actually produce the desired results I cannot say.

Check here for some info - http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.Asp?ID=3814

Looking at the actual IE app, I'd say that the scrollbar is a permanent fixture. Beats me why they did it, tho. Making it invsible and making it disabled are not that harder/easier than each other, I'd think.