Web Browser in an Irrlicht application? - c++

I'd like to know whether I can embed a web browser control into my Irrlicht (http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net) application.
A simple HTML renderer or maybe a trick to embed an Internet Explorer ActiveX control into my Irrlicht application is just OK.
Is it possible? If so, how?
Any kind of help would be greatly appreciated! :)
FYI: Irrlicht 1.6 on Windows platform with MSVC++ 2008 EE
note: sometimes I get better and faster responses in SO rather than in the community forum itself. ;D

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UWP front end with a COM backend

I'm a student working on a diy scientific computing engine. I would really like to develop using the UWP XAML UI. Nothing else. I just want to consume the front end from a standard COM DLL. I need access to things like MySQL/Cluster and dynamic loading. I am quite proficient in COM. UWP and windows runtime component sandboxing is counter productive for me. VS2017 is awesome. XAML is awesome. This is not a store app. I just need to wrap basic event calls that wouldn't need to marshal anything more complicated than a string or a float. I can't seem to nail down an appropriate consice approach. Is there an approach that is supported by the relevant community?
With the recently announced XAML Islands at the //Build 2018 Conference, you will be able to create XAML UserControls and host them on your Win32/.NET framework applications (ie: Winforms or WPF). This technology is currently in preview and supports the XAML WebView control, allowing Win32/.NET apps to have a fully HTML5 rendering engine.
For more information take a look at:
https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2018/05/07/modernizing-applications-for-our-multi-sense-multi-device-world/
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/xaml-platform/xaml-host-controls
To address your WPF longevity question, our focus is on improving the UWP platform, but we do realize many companies have application assets in Winforms and WPF, so our goal is to ensure developers can interop with our new technologies. You might want to investigate the .NETCore3 roadmap to learn more.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/05/07/net-core-3-and-support-for-windows-desktop-applications/
Hope this helps,
Adam Braden [MS]

Embed Ads in C++ Win32 API GUI Application?

I've created a program using C++ Win32 API and wanted to add some ads to it and hopefully make money off of it. As an Android developer its always been as easy as finding a mobile ad network and implementing within 10 minutes but I don't see anything like that for windows applications written in C++. Another idea I had was implementing HTML ads inside the program, but I don't know exactly how that would work either. Any help is appreciated! Thanks!

Blackberry web services for 10.3 os

I am developing a BlackBerry 10 apps with Cascades (C++ programming language) right now. Can anyone tell me how do i make a call to an web service in BlackBerry 10: Cascades? I'm just a beginner, so i don't really know anything. Thanks for your answer :D
It is not clear what your requirement is, but since you are a beginner it is probably best to start small. Have you looked at the WebView Cascades control?
http://developer.blackberry.com/native/reference/cascades/bb__cascades__webview.html
How about XmlDataAccess and JsonDataAccess, you can find samples in the documentation.
There are a lot of samples on github.
samples
There is also a sample project using QtSoap to access web services.
soapxml

Most lightweight way to host a html/css/js UI?

I'm writing a pure Win32 application in MSVC 2012 using C++. After lots of struggling with trying to theme native win32 (I don't want to use .NET) I wouldn't mind seeing if I can do it much easier by having the application frontend rendered from HTML/CSS (which is easy to theme).
What lightweight libraries are there available for C++ that would let me have a web styled frontend on my desktop application, while seamlessly giving the user the impression that they aren't looking at a webpage?
Maybe something like http://www.terrainformatica.com/htmlayout/ could help you out.

Browser Helper Object UI

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 :)