loading a web page in a PB control

[#1]

Please keep in mind that I am very new to PB web capabilities and question could be very rudamnetary to some people. Is there an object in PB that I can use to load a webpage, basically it will be a URL link but instead of opening it in web browser it will be opened inside that PB object. Is this even possible? thanks for your help.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

There is an inet object which you can use which "provides the ability to display a Web page in the default browser, access the HTML for a specified page, and send data to a CGI, ISAPI, or NSAPI program." per the online help.

Not sure if this is what you are after.

Matt

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

thanks Matt, this is exactly what I was looking for.

[Former Member]

Actually, the inet object is not what you are looking for (according to the wording of your question), because it will actually open the browser in its own window. If you want to open it within a PB window, use the topwizprogramming one that Jerry Siegel mentioned.

I am using a version of that, with some additional coding, to allow WYSIWYG editing of HTML pages in my app, for mail-merge use. (The users edit the HTML template file, then my code reads the HTML and does the merge, and redisplays it in the browser object for possible further editing, and printing.) This relies on a little-known ability in IE to be put into an editing mode (which they call "Design Mode".)

[Former Member]

http://www.topwizprogramming.com/freecode_webbrowser.html  will probably help.