But if you could get the window handle from internet explorer... should it work?
Yes :)
http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=48327&hl=embed%20web%20browser
The code there grabs the window handle for IE or Firefox to do what it does. It could be made better, and you could add more web browsers.
That code could also be used to get the window handle for a Java applet, but it would require a lot of fiddling, digging, and other likely to fail things. (If civilization was built like a computer program, the introduction of the woodpecker would cause its demise).
And with that same style of fiddling and digging you can actually get Blitz to shove itself inside of a web browser's main viewing window. (But such a process is a bit more tricky, because you need a different to use FindWindowEx for non-top-level windows).
6 months ago and i see it now... wow
Yah... this is a very pleasant little surprise. Over the last week or so, I've been shocked to realize that people actually are using the things that I'm contributing. (Even my mesh position getting commands...).