>>>>I have started to use the webcontrol in some application forms which I will now have to distribute to users desktops.
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>>>>I don't need to distribute and components of the webcontrol object with my app, do I?
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>>>>Will I have webcontrol version problems for users with older or newer browsers installed on their PCs?
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>>>>Any Vista installation issues?
>>>>
>>>>TIA
>>>You could use the Firefox Web Browser Control. That is free to distribute and can do anything the IE one can do.
>>>
>>>http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozilla.htm
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>>Bernard,
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>>I just tried to use this control in a VFP 9 form and it does not work for me! I downloaded and registered the mozctlx.dll as per the installation instruction.
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>>First off, in design mode, none of the control's properties or methods show up via intellisence! Secondly, and most importantly, it refuses to show me anything when I try to Navigate() or Navigate2(). For example, I'm trying thisform.owebBrowser.Navigate("http://www.levelextreme.com") and nothing show.
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>>So much for being 100% compatible with the browser control from M$. In my testing, I simply replaced the M$ browser control with this one, renamed it accordingly and left all my existing code intact. It just does not do the job. When I switch back to the M$ control, all works as before.
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>>Did you ever get this going in VFP?
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>>TIA
>>Mike
>
>Never tried it. Only just heard about it and shared.

Well I have to agree with Rick Strahl in his previous post where he says that this control is garbage in VFP. Too bad. I would have loved to have another choice especially since it appears that the M$ WebBrowser control got "broken" since updating to IE7.

Mike