Here's a screen shot of what I'm working on...


... how nice of them to delete my pic without letting me know...


...Still in it's early stages, but pretty much fully functional.

Last edited by softwerx (March 31, 2010 10:36 PM)

Starting with version 1.4 (which I'm currently putting the finishing touches on), my Book Reader (http://www.raggiesoft.com/) will be switching from using the Explorer control.  Thanks for freeing us from the shackles of Explorer.

I will be using GeckoFx in NotJustBrowsing v1.0.11, replacing old outdated Mozilla ActiveX control.

340 - some views and only a handful of replies? C'mon people let's hear about what you're doing with it. It's quite an interesting bit of code we're using here isn't it? Show off what you got!

I am hoping to replace the IE WebBrowser control (which feels kinda buggy) with GeckoFX, provided that there's a way to export a rendered page as an image (similiar to the IE WebControl method DrawToBitmap). The app is a kind of wrapper around the orgchart part of Google Visualization that I've created for my wife. Managing the Javascript code for the orgchart stuff is a bit too tricky for her, and with this app she can easily create orgcharts as trees (TreeView) and then render and export them as images.

and...this is what i've done in 2 days of work. Many thanks for developing this wonderful dll.

My project is coming along, one step at a time...


...I know the interface is a shambles... I'm working on it using Photoshop/GDI+ and haven't yet decided upon a final default look, I'm slowly trying to implement skinning... other than that it's perfect ...(aside from a myriad of trivial bugs and such)


EDIT: Doesn't the GeckoFX forum look just perfect 'housed' in this browser? ... LOL

...Yes, that is a custom favicon I used for GeckoFX.org...



Please keep in mind that this project, like many of yours, is being created by a one-man-show...

Last edited by softwerx (December 31, 2008 10:29 PM)

Yes. The tab control is custom.

Creating a tabbed browser is no harder than creating a non tabbed browser. It's all in how you handle and keep track of the tabs.

As far as using custom classes go... my project (Obsidian) is +=.75 custom classes - the tab control included. Don't let custom classes get you down. Use/create them to your advantage. Obsidian isn't 100% my own code... the address bar is a custom control that I got from some website (codeproject.com I think) - although I did alter the code for it somewhat (to behave/look more like the one employed by Firefox). And all of our projects here, are using some version or another of GeckoFX. Without this GREAT open source control (Thank you, Skybound) none of us would even be using this forum... Hell, this forum probably wouldn't exist if it wasn't for GeckoFX.
Just think of custom controls like this: Every time you create an action to be done when a certain control fires any event you're, in some way, 'customizing' a control/class. Inheriting from the base of a class/control just let's you 'fine tune' the control to react in the way YOU want it to.

Best of luck with your project..
Softwerx

I've created a thread that shows one way of keeping tabs on your tabs when it comes to tabbed browsers.
Look it up if you like.
Happy New Year Everybody!!

Last edited by softwerx (January 01, 2009 12:37 AM)

jacobp wrote:

I've still been looking for that address bar softwerx. If you could send me a dll or something (link, etc.) that would be appreciated. I really like the firefox address bar and I wanted to get it too.

I couldn't find the website I got this from so I'll just post it here.

...Keep in mind, this is just a raw combobox control that allows you to embed other controls in the drop-down portion. You'll have to use your imagination to make it look like the Firefox URL bar. I'm using an owner drawn multi-line listbox in the drop-down portion of the control and drawing the items to replicate the Firefox drop-down the best I can.

Last edited by softwerx (January 02, 2009 12:05 PM)

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Don't most browsers look alike? I mean they usually have a menu at the top, some navigation buttons and an address bar below that. Sometimes there's a search box near the address bar.... You see what I'm getting at.
Obsidian doesn't act like Firefox any more than Internet Explorer does. Besides, how would you know how it acts? I haven't released Obsidian, in either executable or source format, to anyone.

jacobp wrote:

Now I am going to work on making it run faster. I already made the weather download and such in the background, but it still runs slow typing URLs and such.

Give the BackgroundWorker control a try, this might improve performance

I've been spending some quality time recently with Visual Studio '08 and I have a awesome new-looking browser with all the good stuff. Most of if is custom or custom drawn except the window move script and the tab control (and geckofx, duh). I am really happy with the way that it functions. Only problem now is the resizing of the window, which doesn't work. I made a maximize/restore script, but I can't figure out the whole resizing deal. If you have any ideas, all are welcome! I also haven't remade my options dialog from my old browser, but it is coming.

Special thanks to softwerx for his bookmarks script.

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