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LiquidCode · Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2002 10:40 am Post subject: Browser Element

I am making a small web browser with the browser element
of VDSElm. Is there anyway, when clicking on a link that opens
a new window, to make it open another instance of my browser
insted of IE?

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

Yup, I have the same problem.

I was thinking of doing a winexist thing to trap the extra windows but that could be a problem if there's already an IE window open on the users machine.

Anyway I'm interested too if there's a solution for this...

Dr. Dread · Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2002 12:15 pm Post subject:

Yeah, the problem is that vdselm uses MSIE core to show pages.

I ran into this one also. I started to build a custom viewer for fetching access-restricted stuff off a Web server. As I'm in control of the
Web pages I could easily remove links auto-reopening new windows, disable right-click menu access and page source view etc.

However I just couldn't stop users from holding down the shift key when clicking a link, thereby opening the link target in a MSIE window
which gave them access to everything Rolling Eyes

I also thought about killing MSIE windows from VDS but soon realized that this would very soon p*ss users off totally.

So I gave up and dropped it entirely and used an external program to complete this project.

Greetz
Dr. Dread

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

Thats what I thought...

You wrote you were able to disable the Right-click, you probably meant on the actual webpage via javascript right? Or you were able to disable the right click on the Browser element itself?

Thanks...

Dr. Dread · Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2002 12:47 pm Post subject:

You're absolutely right - right-click was disabled in the HTML code with JavaScript.

Dread

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

Thanks Doc...

Just tried the Winamp browser and it opens a new window on some links... I guess if they couldnt do it...it will be hard to do with VDS.. Confused

LiquidCode · Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2002 12:52 pm Post subject:

Thanks guys. I may take a stab at it and see it I can come up with
something.

cnodnarb · Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2002 1:23 pm Post subject:

The only thing I can think of is VERY tedious...

You would have to do this on an extension by extension bases, and overwrite there exisiting registry entries when your window is active and rewrite them back when your window is inactive...

HTML registry is located here on my system.

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\open\command

NodNarb