I am new to C++. I really need to know how to get the output of HTML file in a window instead of getting that in browser. I searched so many sites. I got to know by using Tidy library, will get that but I don't know how to proceed with that.
Can any one please tell me how I will get the HTML output in a window?
I am using WIN32 API.
If I understand what you want, you would like to display HTML.
Internet Explorer as an ActiveX control should work for you, you can host HTML pages within your application. It is a deep subject, but you can get started by looking up information on the interface:
IWebBrowser2
If you are creating a windows application, open your dialog editor and add a reference to the MS Web Browser control, I can't tell you specifically what it is, but it should be in the list of COM controls available
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I have this program, it is apparently coded in C++, and I can see that the window(dialog box) is a native one, but in the middle of the window, it has modern looking UI elements, and when I right click on the client area(with modern UI elements) it shows a context menu like a web browser does(with almost same items as Internet Explorer).
There is also a newer version of this program, apparently it has coded same as before but the content in the web browser like area is now coded in Silverlight.
So according to my understanding this is a just a native window with an HTML web page in the client area, which allows to take advantage of CSS designing.
I would love to know how such a program be developed C++ and how does event handling is done in such a system.
Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks
Basically you do this by embedding a web browser control into your application. Microsoft directly provides such a control or you can use 3rd party alternatives.
In WinForms you can add a WebBrowser control like any other common
control, see here. You can also include the same control in a
WPF application.
The above .Net WebBrowser control emulates IE7 by default (I believe) even if
the user has a newer version of IE installed. You can make it
use a newer version as shown in various online resources. A better option is however, to not use IE or the
WinForms WebBrowser control at all. Consider CefSharp. "Cef"
stands for Chromium embedded framework, which is a native library. CefSharp is a C# wrapper
around CEF.
If you are not using C#, in a native Win32 application you can just
embed CEF. Or you can embed Microsoft's IE-based control
as, essentially, a COM object, but I would recommend the
former in this case. This is exactly what CEF is for.
We have a C++ application (using Owl UI framework) which calls a CEFsharp Chromiumbrowser control inside an owl dialog. It is working perfectly the first time and the chromium embedded control shows the page properly. It is important to mention here that the first url which is say "http//www.someurl" navigates internally to "http://www.anotherurl/opensomething" each time. When we close the Owl MDI window and then try to open it again, the CEFSharp browser control tries to go straight to "http://www.anotherurl/opensomething" instead of going to "http//www.someurl" which it is being specifically asked to navigate to. We are using Chromiumbrowser load method to load the url but just cannot make it to load the first url from the second time onward. Our CEFsharp version is 63.03 . However if we open the chromium browser control in its own window and not embed it inside the MDI dialog it works perfectly everytime. Can't figure out so far as to why this is not loading the url properly from the second time around. Thanks for any help in advance.
I have a MFC-application that uses the Acrobat OCX to display a PDF inside a CView.
When the PDF contains a link, the control changes the mouse cursor when hovering over it, but when I click it nothing happens.
When I use the Acrobat Reader application, it asks me if I want to open the link. So I guess there is some kind of notification message emitting from the control. It would be ok if I just get the address of the link, then I could open it myself.
Active X's link only works to the named destinations inside the same PDF file.
Developing Applications Using Interapplication Communication
You can also treat a PDF document as an ActiveX® document and implement convenient PDF browser controls through the AcroPDF object. This object provides you with the ability to load a file, move to various pages within a file, and specify various display and print options. A detailed description of its usage is provided in “Summary of OLE objects and methods” on page 30.
You probably have to use another OLE autoimation method, such as rendering PDF documents.
Developing Applications Using Interapplication Communication - on OLE capabilities in Acrobat section
You can render PDF documents on the screen in two ways:
●Use an interface similar to the Acrobat user interface.
In this approach, use the AVDoc object’s OpenInWindowEx method to open a PDF file in your application’s window. The window has vertical and horizontal scroll bars, and has buttons on the window’s perimeter for setting the zoom factor. Users interacting with this type of window find its operation similar to that of working in Acrobat. For example, links are active and the window can display any text annotation on a page.
The ActiveView sample in the Guide to SDK Samples shows how you can use this approach.
However, before you start this method, I recommend to download Acrobat SDK and excute some sample program whether link event is occured normally. Acrobat SDK have many useful vc++, c# sample program.
I want to display a simple web page in my Win32 application.
I have read this question
IWebBrowser2: how to force links to open in new window?
I want to do exactly stated in the reply of the question, but havn't found a code example.
Is there a simple example which shows how to use IHTMLDocument instead of IWebBrowser2 to render HTML documents inside a Win32 application.
IHTMLDocument is a non-visual component and so cannot do what you ask. IWebBrowser2 is the visual component that you need.
I'm trying to make a program to open Acrobat files using Adobe Acrobat Reader and save them in a text file, automatically.
What I want my program to do is:
open the pdf
send Alt + Tab //to move to the acrobat tab
send Alt + F //to open file
send Down Down Down Down (4 times) //to select 'save as text' option
send Enter // to save
I'm using Windows OS.
can someone please help me on how to do this?
Well my finel goal is to save the title and author of about 2500 pdf files in a database automatically, what are the better ways you suggested ? this was what i came up with.
Try AutoIt. From it's website:
"AutoIt is a freeware Windows automation language. It can be used to script most simple Windows-based tasks."
You're going to want to use Spy++ and watch the messages being passed to the window when you perform these actions (note that opening the PDF with Acrobat and grabbing the Window handle are different operations). From there, look into:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms644950(VS.85).aspx
Win32 messaging is difficult if you're not used to it and fragile, as mentioned by #Alf. I'd suggest you try another approach, but if you Google "win32 sendmessage" or "win32 sendkeys" that should get you started.
Couple of things,
1) Simulating keystrokes to interact with another application is a very very bad idea. You're better off finding API's that'll do the same thing.
If you still haven't changed your mind, read further...
2) For Saving, Why not use Ctrl+S to save, Ctrl+O to open. I'm Sure you'll find direct shortcuts for the others too.
Here's a Project that might help.
You can use SendMessage API to send mouse and keyboard messages to a window, or you can use sendinput which simulates actual hardware events. I will agree with another person, use AutoIT