Error displayed when trying to load Dictionary.com in my application

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I am a beginner in visual basic 6 and i need help in creating an application. I am trying to create an application in visual basic 6 which would display the meaning of a word(from the site Dictionary.com) entered in the text box on clicking on the "Search" button. It is actually a web browser which opens the page which contains the meaning of the desired word. Can anyone give me the code for the "Search" button such that after typing in the desired word in the text box and clicking on the "Search" button it would open the Dictionary.com page containing the meaning of that word. I have tried numerous methods but every time it is displaying some error or the other in loading the page. Example:

<img src="http://i.imgur.com/K7YAnfj.jpg" title="Hosted by imgur.com" />

The code which I used for the search button:

VB

Private Sub Command1_Click()

WebBrowser1.Navigate ("http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/" & Text1.Text)

End Sub

Or is there anything else that I can do to remove the error?

Posted 22-Oct-13 8:42am

Bitan Galactico Basak

Updated 22-Oct-13 8:47am

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phil.o · Answer 1 · 2013-10-22T09:17:00

Solution 1

Visual Basic 6? Are you sure?
Why do you do that to yourself? :(

It is not supported anymore for many years now.

You have an error message saying there's a problem in a script on the page ; apparently your web browser control cannot handle a script on the page of dictionary.com's website. Hard to say anything more useful since you did not feed us with enough contextual information. Maybe try to improve your question ; but with VB 6, it will be some kind of hard to find answers.
Good luck.

Posted 22-Oct-13 9:17am

phil.o

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 22-Oct-13 15:40pm

Agree. I don't quite understand why people want to torture themselves. Just out of laziness to learn or read anything?
I have only one note: VB6 was obsolete event before it was first introduced to marked. Some technologies created a decade or so before was way more robust and generally serious. No wonder VB6 gained so much popularity: certain wide category of people are attracted by such fulleries, pretty much by the reasons similar to those bringing other people to fortune tellers or into multilevel marketing... Sad...
My 5, by the way.
—SA

phil.o 22-Oct-13 15:54pm

Thank you Sergey :)
As an IT worker for many years now, I sometimes have to treat some plain old VB 6 applications compatibility problems. An effective number of small companies still have their digital informations - sales, stocks, management - in such somewhat hand-cooked applications. 'This is now time to think about another more recent solution' is the response that often comes ^^

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 22-Oct-13 16:02pm

Dealing with legacy was always unpleasant and not easy, and VB6 legacy is especially massive and troublesome overall. Hope you will successfully phase out this one from your life, with time...
—SA

phil.o 22-Oct-13 16:05pm

I have a board next to me ; everytime I manage to get rid of a VB6 solution, I draw a line ; i group the lines by six, and the seventh line crosses them in diagonal.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 22-Oct-13 16:16pm

Great, this is like cutting a notch on the stock of your sniper's firearm when you kill a next one. :-)
—SA

phil.o 22-Oct-13 16:24pm

^^I have forgotten these days now... It was a long time ago, I was young and dumb...

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 22-Oct-13 16:36pm

Good for you. Then I wish everyone else to get this trash phased out soon... :-)
—SA

Bitan Galactico Basak · Answer 2 · 2013-10-24T07:32:00

Solution 2

I have solved the problem myself. I added the following code to the form load event:

VB

WebBrowser1.Silent = True

Posted 24-Oct-13 7:32am

Bitan Galactico Basak