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marty · Professional Member Joined: 10 May 2001 Posts: 789

The VDSSURFX extension control allows you to display an Internet Explorer control on a VDS dialog, and change some of Internet Explorer settings .

But as opposed to a other web browser extensions, your VDS application controls files dropped on the control by using the VDS style DRAGDROP. By doing this you can run an ActiveX Control or show a webform for example without worrying that the user drops a JPG, ZIP, HTML or any other file on your web browser control which would normally cause the
IE control to open the file or open the download dialog box.

As a bonus, you’ll find usefull the Internet Explorer tweaks I left in the VDSSURFX, like skinning the Internet Explorer Toolbar, Disable the “View Source” option, and other interesting tricks to be used for configuring Internet Explorer 5.+ or higher. (Please note that these extra bonus commands/functions are NOT supported )

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 or higher must already be installed on the computer before you can use VDSSURFX.
The Web browser (which uses the Internet Explorer engine), can be also aUniversal Browser.

It will let you display (load), print, save different types of documents as:
- HTML pages,
- Word documents,
- Excel spreadsheets,
- Visio drawings,
- PowerPoint presentations,
- Shockwave movies,
- Bitmaps (JPG, BMP, GIF,etc..)
- etc.

Of course opening some these documents needs a third party software installed. (For example to open a Word (.DOC) document, the end user needs to have MS Word installed) But the document will open in the VDSSURFX control of your VDS application if it is installed.

The Print Preview command will only work on certain types of documents for the moment, it does not work with MS Office documents such as Excel (XLS), Word (DOC) etc... Im trying to find a workaround for this. But the
regular print will work.

Print Preview WILL work on bitmaps, text files, HTML files and probably more...

So knowing that, someone could create with VDSSURFX, a Bitmap viewer, Excel report viewer, run an ActiveX control such as a RealAudio Player and more with VDS .

Because some the VDSSURFX features will only work when the VDS application is compiled, I compiled in VDS 4 the two examples that comes with VDSSURFX so you can try.

In trial mode you cannot use VDSSURFX after compiling your VDS application.

Here's the link to download the VDSSURFX extension:
http://www.vdsworld.com/index.php?page=download&fileid=237

Thanks to Mac and Snarlingsheep for the beta testing Wink

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SnarlingSheep · Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2002 10:10 pm Post subject:

Just a note that you don't need to download the demos AND the extension by itself. The demos include the extension.

marty · Professional Member Joined: 10 May 2001 Posts: 789

Yup your right forgot to mention that.... Wink

marty · Professional Member Joined: 10 May 2001 Posts: 789

Hi,

Already an update Wink

Here are the changes:

V 1.1: Fixed minor problems with the following commands REFRESH, STOP (Thanks to Mac for finding that bug)

Updated HELP file for the commands PRINTPREVIEW & PAGESETUP

Forgot to mention that VDSSURFX Extension is at 10.00$ for a limited time only. The regulare price will be 15.00$... so act soon... Wink

Thanks...

For the download links look at the initial post, there the same. The SURFXDEMOS.ZIP has been updated also.

marty · Professional Member Joined: 10 May 2001 Posts: 789

Well heres another little update.

Thanks to Dr.Dread for this one! Wink

The VDS 3 example has been updated. Bug fixes only.

Thanks