IE activex in MATLAB GUI

Hello,

I am trying to embed internet explorer activex control in MATLAB GUI. But, I received the following error message after I run the GUI: "Serialization of COM Object failed. 'Microsoft Web Browser' could not be restored to its previous state. Make sure file actvxWebBrowser_activex1 is in the same directory as your GUI"

The file actvxWebBrowser_activex1 is already in the same directory as the GUI.

Strangely, when I run the command h=actxcontrolselect; in Matlab command window, I can select the object Web Browser and the object is embedded in a Matlab Figure, not a Matlab GUI. With this, I can invoke the methods and get properties of the activex object without error.

What I really want to do is to have text boxes, buttons (UI control). I know that buttons and text can be positioned in matlab figure. But I still can't figure out how to put a text box in Matlab figure.

Someone knows how to fix that error in Matlab GUI?

Best regards, Wan Nawi

Answer 1

[Titus Edelhofer]

Hi,

the following works for me: in the GUI_OpeningFcn I added:

handles.ie = actxcontrol('Shell.Explorer.2', [100 100 500 500]);
GoHome(handles.ie);

This opens the internet explorer within the GUI (at the given position) and loads our internal home page ...

Titus

[Wan Nawi]

it works! thanks! Anyway, do you know what causes the error?

Regards,

Nawi

[Titus Edelhofer]

Hi Nawi,

not exactly. You tried to run actxcontrolselect from within your GUI? I never tried this ...

Titus

[morningStar]

I have a similar problem. I want to open internet explorer in a panel in my GUI, can you help me with that plz? It seems it can open it only inside figure.Thanks!

Answer 2

[Jan]

You want a simple text box and try to implement it using a IE ActiveX control??

What about:

figure;
uicontrol('Style', 'text', ...
   'Position', [10, 10, 200, 200], ...
   'String', {'Line1', 'Line2'});

EDITED: A Matlab GUI is a Matlab figure. I assume the problem could be solved, if you create the IE-ActiveX dynamically in the CreateFcn instead of creating it once in GUIDE.

[Wan Nawi]

sorry, maybe my question is not descriptive enough. I want to make a Matlab GUI using Guide, in which containing Internet Explorer activex control (to host Google Earth Plugin), and some others UI controls.

The problem is the inconsistency of error. When I am working with GUIDE, I get the error message. But not when I am using Matlab commands.

And for the text box, I did found the command. Thanks anyway