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  On 2/18/2021 at 6:01 AM, LarsJ said:

What I'm trying to say is simply that the entire WebView project is based on techniques and code that are so complicated that AutoIt programmers will not find it attractive and therefore will not use it. We run the risk that a UDF as a result of the project will simply not be used. 

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Sorry, but I disagree. Personally I am convinced that this tool is very useful and considering that this topic has had almost 3000 views in almost 3 months it is a sign that there is a good interest (and expectation) around this udf by AutoIt programmers. I was already convinced when I drafted this other post (even if for another 'engine').
@LarsJ, please don't go away.... :P

 

  On 2/18/2021 at 6:28 AM, argumentum said:

My point is that functions that resemble what is the IE UDF would be used ( maybe ? ).

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it's not exactly correct to consider this stuff as a replacement for the IE.udf. IE.udf can be better replaced by @Danp2's WebDriver udf.
Maybe The only function of ie.udf that better compares to this WebView2 is _IECreateEmbedded()

  On 2/18/2021 at 6:28 AM, argumentum said:

....  because, the life of IE is going the way of the dodo. :tv_horror:

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This is true for the IE browser, but as far as BrowserControl is concerned I think it will survive IE
for example the BrowserControl is part of the .NET "System.Windows.Controls" WebBrowser class. It is also used in the windows help. If you use the 'AutoIt Window Info' tool you can see that the BrowserControl (class: Internet Explorer_Server) is used as the help viewer...

 

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Getting started example step 3: WebView window First AutoIt implementation. Tested on Windows 10/7, 32/64 bit. Execute WebView2.au3: #AutoIt3Wrapper_Au3Check_Parameters=-d -w- 1 -w 2 -w 3 -w

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Getting started example step 4: Navigation eventsWebView2-2.au3: #AutoIt3Wrapper_Au3Check_Parameters=-d -w- 1 -w 2 -w 3 -w 4 -w 5 -w 6 -w 7 #AutoIt3Wrapper_UseX64=y Opt(

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Thank you @LarsJ for your suggestion I copied the dlls into the autoit path, but again without success, however I think I have found the reason for the problem: 1) after copying the 2 dll to the a

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I think Microsoft will ultimately make WebView2 as standard system functionality and then you won't need to install any add-ons, just this functionality will work right after the first start of Windows, or at least full update.

Then not only _IECreateEMbedded() will be the only one better things in comparition to WebDriver.

 

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  On 11/26/2020 at 11:55 PM, LarsJ said:

AutoHotkey example
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Hi there, glad my code was able to help you get started with incorporating Webview2 into AutoIt!  I haven't updated that post in a while but I've wrapped more of the functionality since then.  Certainly not all of it because I don't have a use for a lot of the methods right now.  Awesome you were able to pick this up for the AutoIt community!

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First of all, thank you so much for your effords making WebView2 working for AutoIt.

I've tested it on Windows 7 and 10 and on both devices it works.

 

One point for Win7 is, if the script getting shutdowned, you will receive an error report from Windows (file.name doesn't work anymore).

Actually I got the same error long time ago on Win7 with other scripts which are running with DLL's. (e.g irrlicht wrapper)

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Use any IPC UDF.

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Generally YES.

Not sure in case of this "WIP" UDF

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Hi, cool thing you guys got going here! :D  And great work from larsJ!
Just a crazy thought.. Would it be possible to somehow bridge a native ActiveXObject, or even the whole WSH interface ( jscript ) into the WebView2?

So you straight from the Webview html/js file could do things like 

var fso = new ActiveXObject("WScript.shell")

 

Not sure, but maybe this could be used:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.web.webview2.core.corewebview2.addhostobjecttoscript?view=webview2-dotnet-1.0.1210.39

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Hi, cool thing you guys got going here! :D  And great work from larsJ!
Just a crazy thought.. Would it be possible to somehow bridge a native ActiveXObject, or even the whole WSH interface ( jscript ) into the WebView2?

So you straight from the Webview html/js file could do things like 

var fso = new ActiveXObject("WScript.shell")

 

Not sure, but maybe this could be used:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.web.webview2.core.corewebview2.addhostobjecttoscript?view=webview2-dotnet-1.0.1210.39

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Hi, Please put example

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few days ago new version was submited:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/reference/win32/?view=webview2-1.0.1210.39

 

Maybe somebody will have a free spare time to continue work on this pre UDF.

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Hi, Please put example

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Like this?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/how-to/hostobject
 

What i'm requesting is the ability to instantiate native ActiveXObjects in the WebView2 browser. So we, as an example, could write to a file directly from the WebView2 with javascript. This way you would be able to do the same stuff as you would in a HTA, just with a WebView2 instead of the legacy IEBrowser

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Edge can only run legacy web apps / protocols in IE mode.

To get this going you need the IEDriver

See here for more info

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-edge/webdriver-chromium/ie-mode?tabs=java

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If you want to run ActiveX web page components in MS Edge (or even Chrome), you can still run them using the fabulous IETab extension for Chrome.

Which also works in MS Edge...

 

See here for more info :

https://audministrator.wordpress.com/2018/01/08/sharepoint-online-activex-in-chrome-browser/

 

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they are going forward

https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Announcements/issues/46

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  On 5/17/2022 at 11:08 PM, Parsix said:

This udf must be convert for use Like _IECreateEmbedded for easy use

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You are welcome to help us to do this.

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