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I feel like replacing the native objects on the main form of my application with a web browser control displaying SVG objects. If I can get all the events to hook up properly, I will be able to have a replica of my database + interface in static HTML pages, with the same look and feel, that I can distribute to users who consequently will not need the database engine and complex install package to surf through data.

I have successfully:

1. Exported data to an XML file
2. Created a XSD file that processes the XML and generates SVG
3. Added a Javascript section to the XSD file so the SVG objects have events
4. Disabled the default shortcut menu of the Adobe plug-in (in IE).

The code is a bit like this:

oXMLdoc = CreateObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument.3.0")
oXSLdoc = CreateObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument.3.0")
oXMLdoc.loadxml('... some XML data ...')
oXSLdoc.loadxml('... XSL file ...')
cSVG = oXMLdoc.transformNode(oXSLdoc)
* cSVGfile is a file destination on disk
STRTOFILE(cSVG, cSVGfile)
THISFORM.Webrowser1.Navigate(cSVGfile)

I can get data back out of the browser by using the browsereval() function in javascript. This passes a string upwards where I can intercept it in VFP and display, for example, a VFP shortcut menu at the right coordinates.

The problem is how to send data back from VFP to the SVG document, e.g. something like this:

THISFORM.Webrowser1.document.InvokeScript("SomeJSproc()", "someparam")

It doesn't work. SVG sites call this the 'inter-document communication problem' and no-one seems to have a solution. Or do they?

John Burton