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Topic: Web browser beforenavigate2

Posted By: PPL1
Subject: Web browser beforenavigate2
Date Posted: 24 September 2008 at 4:39pm

I have a WebBrowser control with some very simple html content (a few links). All links open up in a new window (target=_blank).

I want the link to open with the user's default browser, not IE. To do this, I need to trap the hyperlink click event, cancel it and do a shellexecute.

My problem is that beforenavigate2 event does not seem to be generated when the link target is _blank. This is expected since strickly speaking it isn't the control that is navigating, but a new browser window.

I tried the NewWindow2 event, but it does not have the clicked URL (an object is passed but it is set to nothing) ...

How can I trap the hyperlink click event when target=_blank ?

Thanks

Replies:

Posted By: PPL1
Date Posted: 03 October 2008 at 9:18am

Bump...

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 06 October 2008 at 2:31am

Hi,

So don't set target=_blank and catch BeforeNavigate event...

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Posted By: PPL1
Date Posted: 12 October 2008 at 5:19pm

Yes this is sometimes a valid solution. However consider this case:

You display a web page in your app. You can't control the content and,
When the use clicks on a link, you want to open it in the client's default browser (not IE)

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 13 October 2008 at 6:30am

Hi,

Pierre , think you understand that our Webbrowser is just wrapper around standard control.

If Standard WebBrowser doesn't send BeforeNavigate for links with target=_blank we cant change it :( I sure WebBrowser from Microsoft ActiveX will work same.

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS