I am using C++ with MFC. I wonder if there is any way to play a youtube video on a control in MFC. Ideally, I just have the share link I get from the Youtube website and send the link to the control and it will play the video. It doesn't really matter if there is no advanced functionality, I just want to play it.
Is there any controls for this?
Any help would be appreciated.
The easiest would undoubtedly be to use a web-browser control. Pass the URL to its Navigate2 member function, and you're on your way.
Edit: I should probably also mention that if this is the primary point of the application, so you'll be doing it in a normal view window, you can simplify things a bit by deriving that view window from CHtmlView.
Insert Activex control WebBrowser Control on your dialog.
Use navigate() method to navigate it to your youtube url. It uses IE's instance to render web pages.
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I need to develop a search module for an mfc ribbon application using C++. I have used auto complete feature in C#.NET but never worked on any mfc ribbon application. I want auto complete search with an icon image as prefix of each suggestion, just like Facebook search. I have also consulted this article, but that uses CComboBox, I need to use CMFCRibbonCombobox in my program because I tried with CCombobox but that was causing problems. Any help will be appreciated.
you need to create your own CMFCRibbonComboBox derived class, that will be pretty much a copy of the CMFCRibbonFontCombBox without the fonts.to check how you draw the images you can check the CMFCRibbonFontComboBox::OnDrawDropListItem implementation.
Then I think that you will have to dynamicaly add it to the ribbon.
It is possible to create screenshot of a Window content in Qt 5? E.g we have web browser and I want to create screen only of the page without chrome (menus window ...). Here is an example:
http://s7.postimg.org/5ekkmpdbd/question.png
Image above represent the feature which I want to implement in my Qt application.
Here is the example:
originalPixmap = QPixmap::grabWindow(QApplication::activeWindow()->winId());
there is a possibility to render only the content (web page) of the browser ang get the image?
The way to deal with the chrome issue depends on what is your goal. The "chrome" you are referring to is a part of the web browser application that you're trying to interact with.
If you're doing this as a quick in-house hack, then you're free to hard code some offsets needed to trim the original pixmap so that the chrome is removed.
If you want something that can grab website screenshots and doesn't care on which browser is being used, you should be using WebKit bundled with Qt. Then you have full control over where the stuff is rendered.
If you want to grab screenshots from a user-provided browser, then one approach is to add an extension into the browser, and implement a server that can receive images from the extension running in the browser. The extension can be written in javascript presumably for everything out there but IE. It will be browser-specific, though.
Another approach is to check if the browser doesn't provide some other APIs that could be used for the purpose, without a need of writing an extension. For all I know, similar extensions should already exist. There surely are open source website testing frameworks out there that let you render a site in multiple browsers; they should provide this "grab from a browser" functionality.
Nitpick: In Qt 5 you should be using QScreen::grabWindow(), not the deprecated QPixmap::grabWindow(). I also hope that you're aware that if there are any windows in front of your window and obscuring it, they'll be grabbed. The grabbing is done from the screen, not directly from the window.
I am building a textEdit application with MFC. Is there a way to create a hyperlink automatically when a user write web address? It's like when you write a web address "www.google.com" the application detects web address and create a hyperlink right away. I have searched documents that explains about this, but couldn't find it.
You'll probably want to use the CRichEditCtrl, which uses the RTF spec to do rich text highlighting. This can include underline and colors, which you could use to create a hyperlink. See RTF syntax for hyperlink for more info.
I think you'll still have to detect clicking on that hyperlink, but that's perhaps a separate issue.
Be aware, Jake, that MFC is a bit of an outdated UI framework. If you know what you're doing and why you need to use it, great, but if you're just getting into UI programming, I'd suggest something more modern, like WPF or any of the XAML-based spin-offs.
I was looking into trying to get my C++ application to do the following:
Open internet explorer
Open a webpage
Enter a name and password into specific forms in the webpage
Click the submit button on the webpage to open a new page
From my searching on the Internet it seems like using COM may make this possible, although I may be incorrect on that. I am doing my best to learn COM at the moment but some help would be great. I'm looking to do this without using MFC.
I have noticed this question which I kind of what I am looking for but I am having trouble understanding the suggested solutions. For example, I do not have a IWebBrowser2 option in my toolbox.
EDIT:
To make my question clearer, I had this task complete in a C# version by simply running a coded UI test but this will not work with C++. I am looking to open IE (not in the application itself), find the username and password forms, pass them string, then find the submit button on the page and click it.
This is very possible from c++. You will have to dive into the winapi to do some Keystroke stuff as well as window handling.
I'm not going to go into all of the code, but you have to do something like the following:
Start ie (if you give it a command line arg with the webpage, it will
open that page).
Make sure the ie window is focused (either just wait
if you want to keep it simple or use window's api to go through each
open HANDLE and find the window you want)
Use SendInput to send an Alt + D (to gain focus to the url bar, in firefox it will be a CTRL + L instead)
Use SendInput and javascript injection to modify the DOM as necessary
You can also submit the form (after everything is as you want it) using the above JS injection capability.
Yes, it is possible, but you have to embed a web browser control in your application, and it is not straightforward (I don't think you can automate DHTML in an external instance of Internet Explorer via COM).
I see that you don't want to use MFC, and this complicates even more the problem. Perhaps you can do it via ATL, I advise against even trying to do it without a framework.
If you could use MFC, then you could use a CDHtmlDialog form and access the underlying COM interfaces to automate the actions.
In the past, I developed an MFC application that used HTML as its user interface, but I used the CDHTMLView class that you can find here: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1783/Integrating-DHTML-into-MFC-Views
You can use this as an entry point for learning how to deal with DHTML events and how to play around with the IWebBrowser2 interface.
You should really take a look at WebDriver which is able to do exactly what you are describing. See (http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/InternetExplorerDriverInternals) for more information about the InternetExplorerDriver internals. Even if you are not able to use the project directly, you can certainly browse the source to get a better idea of how what you want to do can be achieved.
What you want to do makes not much sense.
There are many APIs available to embed a browser view into your program. For example Qt offers this.
Then you can just do your HTTP POST request yourself and display the answer you get in your browser view.
That is a much cleaner solution.
Pro tip: Don't use Internet Explorer.
I am a newbie working towards developing an IE extension that would appear as an overlay in certain webpages. I am getting started by creating a simple BHO in VS2008 (using C++), but I am wondering how UI may be incorporated within the project. Any ideas?
Just to give you an idea, I'm looking for overlays similar to what was developed by stickis
http://www.stickis.com/faq/
Thanks
You have two real options:
1> Inject your UI into the page as HTML.
2> Overlay your UI (using Windows graphics APIs) over top of the page.
Neither of these is super-simple, I'm afraid. Unfortunately, doing UI is usually the hardest part of building IE addons.
The key question is whether you need a BHO at all. Between context-menu extensions and IE8 Accelerators, you may find that you can let IE do all of the heavy lifting. See www.enhanceie.com/ie/dev.asp for more info.
Using CreateWIndowEx() was what I was looking for :)