Gecko Web Browser

[dantay9]

I was looking at a few examples on the forum and came across object events from IE captured by ObjEvent. I don't work with objects very much, but this sounded interesting. I did a bit of searching on MSDN and found quite a bit of useful information. Favorites are saved to an ini file. The drop down menu only applies to favorites, not to previously visited websites. To add a favorite, click on the little star and it will light up. Click on it again to remove the website from favorites. I would love to hear any suggestions.

ToDo List:

1. Tabbed Browsing

2. Stop some links from opening in a new window. (Not realistic)

3. Images aren't always reliable.

4. Menu bar to edit favorites, view, history, etc.

5. Retrieve url history from local drives

Download available here.

Download is attached

Gecko Web Browser.zip

Edited May 5, 2012 by dantay9

[Rizonetech]

I was looking at a few examples on the forum and came across object events from IE captured by ObjEvent. I don't work with objects very much, but this sounded interesting. I did a bit of searching on MSDN and found quite a bit of useful information. Favorites are saved to an ini file. The drop down menu only applies to favorites, not to previously visited websites. To add a favorite, click on the little star and it will light up. Click on it again to remove the website from favorites. I would love to hear any suggestions.

ToDo List:

1. Tabbed Browsing

2. Stop some links from opening in a new window.

3. Images aren't always reliable.

4. Menu bar to edit favorites, view, and history.

Here is the download link.

ERROR: can't open include file <Icons.au3>

#include <Icons.au3>

Edited November 21, 2009 by Rizonetech

[Authenticity]

Icons.au3 by Yashied.

[Rizonetech]

How about making the form resizable.

[destroyhim]

Wow! Good job it looks great!

[dantay9]

@ Rizonetech

If you want the window to be resizable, just set the style of the GUI to Bitor($WS_POPUP, $WS_SIZEBOX) instead of $WS_POPUP. When this is added, it makes a rim around the window, which I don't think looks as cool. If more people like it though, maybe I will add an option once I get the ini file fully implemented.

[dantay9]

Fixed the images. They should always appear now.

[toxicvn]

http://www.google.com.vn/

seem "tim voi google" is disable

[dantay9]

I can get to that website fine. Then I click on the search button and it performs a search. Don't know what's going on on your end.

[dantay9]

UPDATE!

Added a bunch of stuff. Buttons can take time to respond though. I am open to any suggestions on how to speed up button response.

[lsakizada]

I am downloading invalid zip archive. What's wrong with the zip file?

Can you please check?

[dantay9]

Just tested it and it seemed to work fine. The 110mb server (which is the one I use) is not always super-reliable. Try it again.

[FuryCell]

Does this even use the gecko rendering engine? From the look of the source it does not. If not the name is very misleading.

[dantay9]

I am not aware of a gecko rendering engine. It just sounded like a cool name (and I already had a few pictures).

[jvanegmond]

Does this even use the gecko rendering engine? From the look of the source it does not. If not the name is very misleading.

I thought this too, when I saw it. I was thinking it's quite revolutionary until I figured it was just a cool name he came up with.

I am not aware of a gecko rendering engine. It just sounded like a cool name (and I already had a few pictures).

You should really do a search before you pick a name. Gecko is a rendering engine for webpages that's very commonly used on Linux. They are often referred to as Gecko browsers.

[Minikori]

The script either runs then exits a few seconds later or runs then gives me an error saying that $statusbar isn't declared. No GUI or anything.

I'm on Windows 7 RC1, anybody got anything on this?

[dantay9]

My computer runs Windows XP SP3, so I can't really help much. I have seen several threads in the help section of the forum about problems with windows 7. The browser is working fine here.

[Minikori]

Yeah, I've never had problems with Windows 7 and AutoIT before, can you upload a compiled .exe and I can try that?

[AdmiralAlkex]

@dantay9

I am also running Win7 and had the same problem, but it was easy to find and fix. You see, you create an embedded IE object, and tell it to browse to google thus firing of IEEvent_StatusTextChange() which tries to do:

Local $Size = ControlGetPos($GUI, "", $StatusBar)

BEFORE you have created that control!

And that screws up the whole script.

By quickly moving the IE parts to after $StatusBar was created it seemed to work just fine

[danielkza]

Actually, Gecko is not a rendering engine 'for Linux'. It's Mozilla's rendering engine in all it's derivatives, flavors and platforms, among them Firefox, Thunderbird and Songbird, for instance. You really should think of a different name.