DCHTMLVIEWER is still using IE 7

[Andy Edward]

Hi Roger,

I've compared the behaviour of DCHTMLVIEWER with my IE Browser and it seems DCHTMLVIEWER is still using IE7 version.

My IE browser is IE 11

Any way to force DCHTMLVIEWER to use IE 11? or better yet to use another browser such as Chrome?

Best Regards,

Andy

[rdonnay]

Andy,

I would not know how to change which ActiveX control is used by DCHTMLVIEWER.

This is because the underlying class is XbpHtmlViewer() and it uses the class id "Shell.Explorer".

If you can find the CLSID of the Web Browser you want to use, then I can show you how to use DCACTIVEXCONTROL in lieu of DCHTMLVIEWER.

Roger

[Andy Edward]

Hi Roger,

Thank you for the offer, but I don't know how to get the CLSID of a certain application.

For the moment, I've managed to stabilize everything even though the DCHTMLVIEWER behaviour is IE 7

Maybe I'll revisit this thread when I'm more familiar with how to get CLSID of an application.

Best Regards,

Andy

[PedroAlex]

Andy.

Get the CLSID

regedit
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\

Press F3
and search excel for exemple.

Pedro

[rdonnay]

Try this:

Code: Select all

#INCLUDE "dcdialog.CH"

FUNCTION Main()

LOCAL GetList[0], oWebBrowser

@ 0,0 DCACTIVEXCONTROL oWebBrowser SIZE 800,600 PIXEL ;
      CLSID "Shell.Explorer.2" ;
      EVAL {|o|o:navigate('http://donnay-software.com')}

DCREAD GUI FIT TITLE 'IE Webbrowser Shell.Explorer2' 

RETURN Nil

* ----------

PROC appsys ; return

[Andy Edward]

I found the answer on how to change the default web browser's version in XBPHtmlViewer, in Alaska Forum

http://news.alaska-software.com/readmes ... 2B.activex

I've implemented the instruction in my application and it seems that it works.

UPDATE 6/11/2014: You don't need to restart the computer for the edit to work, just re-run your .exe application. I'm using Windows 7 32 bit.

Hope this helps someone.

Andy

[rdonnay]

That's good news. I have posted the answer here:

The reason for this is that the OCX is pre-set (by MS) to be IE 7 or IE 8)
compatible. For the OCX to work the same as the installed IE browser, you
only need to set a single Windows Registry setting for each executable that
uses the OCX. I set this compatibility value to IE 10 on all versions of
Windows, no matter what version of IE is installed, and Google Maps (and
other web sites) now work everywhere in the embedded OCX.

You can check (and set) this registry value at the beginning of your
program, using Thomas Braun's Registry Class. Add (or Select) Registry Key:
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\Feature_Browser_Emulation"
Add (or Replace) Key Name: "YourExeName.exe" ==> Type: DWord with Value:
10001 (0x2711) (decimal/hex), to force IE 10 Emulation/Standards mode, if
IE 11 (or below) is installed)!

The above Registry Key will probably wrap at the included space character.
Replace "YourExeName.exe" with the name of your application's executable.

For more info, see:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... s.85).aspx

Thanks to :

Andreas Gehrs-Pahl
Absolute Software, LLC

phone: (989) 723-9927
email: Andreas.GP@Charter.net
web: http://www.Aerospace-History.net