Using the VFP Web Browser control

[StewartUK]

Hi,

Working in VFP9 SP2.

I'm wanting to show html pages in a pageframe on a form, but they don't work very well.

I have one control that shows our Intranet home page. In the form Init event I have:

THIS.pgfMain.Page2._WEBBROWSER41.Navigate2([[URL unfurl="true"]http://10.0.0.1/intranet/top.htm[/URL]])

However, when I click on the tab for that page, it appears that only then does it start to navigate to the page and looks very messy while doing so.

The other scenario is that on another page I have an edit box with some buttons that insert html markups around selected text. I have another button to show the user how what they've typed will look on an html page. Here's the code in the click:

IF THIS.Tag = [text]
  THIS.Parent.webText.Navigate2(ADDBS(evUserAppData)+[WowCmsTemp.htm])
  MESSAGEBOX(THIS.Parent.webText.NavigateComplete2([],ADDBS(evUserAppData)+[WowCmsTemp.htm]))
  THIS.Parent.webText.Visible = .T. &&  .ZOrder(0)
  THIS.Parent.webText.ZOrder(0)
  THIS.Tag = [html]
ELSE
  THIS.Parent.edtDetail.Visible = .F. && .ZOrder(0)
ENDIF

The web browser object "webText" is exactly under the edit box.

The MESSAGEBOX pops up with .T.. The webText control comes on top of the edit box. The visible property is true, the cUrl property is the filename I've specified, but I can't actually see the web control.

Can anyone suggest what's going on? Is there another control I can use instead?

Thanks,

Stewart

 

[Mike Lewis]

Stewart,

I see you never got a reply to these questions. I was hoping you would, as I might need to do something similar myself soon.

Have you by any chance found a solution yet?

Mike


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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

My Visual FoxPro site: www.ml-consult.co.uk

 

[StewartUK]

Hi Mike,

Nope.

I found where I was using the browser control successfully before - the browser control sat on the form and so it started navigating as soon as the form appeared.

It seems that navigation only happens when the control is visible.

Perhaps you could post back with anything you discover?

Thanks,

Stewart

 

[Mike Lewis]

Stewart,

When I get to it, I'll experiment a bit and see if I can come up with anything new.


Mike


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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

My Visual FoxPro site: www.ml-consult.co.uk