Hi Vic,
>Can anyone point me to a class/OCX for
>enabling VFP to become a WWW browser?
>I've downloaded the ActiveX Internet
>controls from Microsoft and cannot
>get them to run.
I'm with Michel on the Mabry controls - much better choice than the MS ICP. However, Mabry doesn't have a browser control.
If you can force people to have Internet Explorer 3.0 installed on their machine I can highly recommend the Web Browser control that becomes available when you install. I just posted an example class that uses this
control to put a browse into a VFP form and control it either interactively
or under program control. It's extremely slick as you get the full capabilities
of Internet Explorer 3.0 right inside of your form. I'm working on an app rigtht now that's using these on a page frame to display product information and it is extremely slick!
The MS ICP control pack does contain an HTML control and it works
fairly well within VFP. Go to the MS Website - there's an example by Ken Levy posted which is pretty nice and should point you in the right direction. This control has some neat features like the ability to get at the HTML text directly (so you can capture and parse it for storage for example) but the browser itself is a few steps behind the state of the art...
+++ Rick ---