Joel
21st March 2005 19:16 UTC

nsWeb: A plugin for display a web browser control? YES!
First I'd like to thank Kichik and deguix for push me a little on the developing of the source code (soon included).

Now:
This is my plugin for showing the web browser control (IE) in a custom page...

See the attached file...

Comment it, please?

Note:
Is not beta, but also not official...

Afrow UK
21st March 2005 19:48 UTC

I think you mean or not nor in the readme :)
nor would mean url or not file. But good job on the rest (I know English isn't your first language).

Just tried it, works very bloody well! I will definately use it for my MapUpdater app thingy :D

-Stu

Joel
22nd March 2005 14:19 UTC

lol, can't type correctly :D

One more hitch and will be ready to be published :D

deguix
23rd March 2005 00:07 UTC

This is what I was wanting for some time. Looking foward for the source code :p... I'll have a time testing your plugin later.

Comm@nder21
23rd March 2005 11:11 UTC

some mistakes in the examples of your plugin:
the classic ui uses this code:

File /oname=$PLUGINSDIR\nsWeb.dll nsWeb.dll

File /oname=$PLUGINSDIR\nsWeb.dll ${NSISDIR}\Plugins\nsWeb.dll

nsWeb::CreateInPage "http://nsis.sf.net"

CallInstDll $pluginsdir\nsWeb.dll CreateInPage ...

Joel
23rd March 2005 15:05 UTC

@Comm@nder21: Dude, those are examples... you do the rest ;)

Afrow UK
23rd March 2005 17:49 UTC

Well, he does have a point. The examples will make it that tiny bit harder for new people than necessary :p

Edit: Nvm, you've updated them already :)

-Stu

Joel
23rd March 2005 19:39 UTC

Official release before uploading
One step more to be officially "official" :p:

- Update the nsWeb - Classic UI.nsi (Tip from Comm@nder21)


Comments from non-XP...?

saivert
23rd March 2005 22:25 UTC

We've got ourself a new ActiveX / ATL wizard in town.
I just tried out your plugin and it's f**** great! I was thinking of making such a plugin myself for a long while. That though started after I took a look on the example in the Platforms SDK for embedding the HTML Editor (which is a WebBrowser control instantiated a bit differently) thorugh the ActiveX control interfaces, but decided to drop the whole idea as I'm not up for coding ATL/ActiveX stuff.

Thanks for releaving me of the pain of doing this myself.
I'm also looking forward for the source code. I'm very interested in learning more about ActiveX and ATL.

Joel
23rd March 2005 22:36 UTC

First: Thanks for the comments, saivert :D
Second: The source code will included in the final ZIP and will be uploaded in my server (if I don't get reports of bugs.. I'll be uploading tomorrow morning plus its own Web Archive site :))
Third: I'n not using ATL ;)

saivert
24th March 2005 02:43 UTC

Not using ATL, huh??
So you must be cracking it the hard way then. Raw Win32 API power and ActiveX OLE interfaces, right??

It's late night here in Norway so I better get some sleep...

Joel
24th March 2005 15:48 UTC

Last update, for now ;) :

- Rename functions.
- Add ShowHTMLInPage.- Display plain HTML text in a custom page dialog

So...last update... if everything is alright, I'll uploaded later...

Joel
25th March 2005 01:39 UTC

The plugin is uploaded... :)

Its own Web Archive.
The new server is updating itself... but is up :up:

Comm@nder21
25th March 2005 16:40 UTC

well, attached a zip file with complete nsis file structure, and so easier to install:

Contrib
-nsWeb
--readme.txt
--file1.htm
--file2.htm
--Source
---*.c
---*.h
---...
Examples
-example1.nsi
-example2.nsi
Plugins
-nsWeb.dll

Joel
25th March 2005 19:34 UTC

I'd like to keep it like I uploaded.... :)
After all, this isn't my first plugin ;)

Thanks dude...

saivert
25th March 2005 23:44 UTC

Instead of arguing about how to package your plugin why not end the discussion and make an NSIS installer for it.

Joel
26th March 2005 03:49 UTC

Good idea, saivert! :idea: Done! :D