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Yes, it's somewhat tricky to get entirely right, which is why Delphi/Lazarus/.NET have wrapper components that take all of the pain out of doing it. It's just

Yes, it's somewhat tricky to get entirely right, which is why Delphi/Lazarus/.NET have wrapper components that take all of the pain out of doing it. It's just a matter of dropping a control on a form and setting a few properties. We use an embedded IE instance for running web applications in our web development IDE, Elevate Web Builder, but we're looking to move to embedded Chrome if MS doesn't provide an option for embedding Edge in non-UWP desktop applications soon.

sjmulder 8y ago
Yeah, having the OLE site and window provided by the framework helps a ton. Once you have those putting in the browser is a breeze. (I E_NOTIMPL-ed all the fancy menu merging and window border stuff but you get that with Delphi and .NET) I still haven't implemented the IDispatch-based event handling yet. It's the only remaining thing but it's daunting. There's hardly any low level documentation. Elevate Web Builder looks interesting. We need something like classic Visual Basic but for the web because building simple web applications is needlessly complicated. I'll give it a try! edit: not filling in that form though, sorry!
- TimJYoung 8y ago
  Re: Yeah, I just had to deal with the IDispatch event handling for status events with the XMLHTTPRequest API in Windows, and it required a crazy amount of research before I got it all right. Re: trial registration - we're going back to simple trial downloads soon, especially due to the GDPR. The original reason for the registration is that we had some issues with abuse, and the registration helped that quite a bit. In the meantime, you can just skip most of it with "N/A", if you're still interested. You can also just run some demo applications here: https://www.elevatesoft.com/products?category=ewb&type=web https://www.elevatesoft.com/products?category=ewb&type=web (at the bottom of the page)

sjmulder 8y ago

Yeah, having the OLE site and window provided by the framework helps a ton. Once you have those putting in the browser is a breeze. (I E_NOTIMPL-ed all the fancy menu merging and window border stuff but you get that with Delphi and .NET) I still haven't implemented the IDispatch-based event handling yet. It's the only remaining thing but it's daunting. There's hardly any low level documentation. Elevate Web Builder looks interesting. We need something like classic Visual Basic but for the web because building simple web applications is needlessly complicated. I'll give it a try! edit: not filling in that form though, sorry!

TimJYoung 8y ago
Re: Yeah, I just had to deal with the IDispatch event handling for status events with the XMLHTTPRequest API in Windows, and it required a crazy amount of research before I got it all right. Re: trial registration - we're going back to simple trial downloads soon, especially due to the GDPR. The original reason for the registration is that we had some issues with abuse, and the registration helped that quite a bit. In the meantime, you can just skip most of it with "N/A", if you're still interested. You can also just run some demo applications here: https://www.elevatesoft.com/products?category=ewb&type=web https://www.elevatesoft.com/products?category=ewb&type=web (at the bottom of the page)