Re: Using CHtmlView in a dialog (VC6)

From:
Alexander <the44secs@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Sat, 13 Dec 2008 05:51:36 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
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On Dec 12, 8:56 pm, Hans-J. Ude <n...@s237965939.online.de> wrote:

Ajay Kalra <ajayka...@yahoo.com> schrieb:

On Dec 11, 11:43 am, Hans-J. Ude <n...@s237965939.online.de> wrote:

Ajay Kalra <ajayka...@yahoo.com> wrote:

On Dec 11, 11:30 am, Ajay Kalra <ajayka...@yahoo.com> wrote:

On Dec 11, 6:26 am, Alexander <the44s...@yahoo.com> wrote:

I have an old application (VC6) that uses CHtmlView in a dialog. =

It

works fine for online browsing but crashes the app on some sites =

(e.g.

Wikipedia). Does anyone know if VC6 compiles CHtmlView against IE=

4 or

does it use a newer version? Also, is there a more up-to-date opt=

ion

for embedding a browser in a dialog using VC6?

Thank you all.


You can use CHTMLCtrl as shown by Paul Dilascia in MSJ/MSDN. (MS=

J

issue was Jan 2000).

-
Ajay


Code is available here:

http://www.microsoft.com/msj/code.aspx
http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/6/7/0678184e-905e-4783-9511-=

....

OP said he is using VC6. I think therefore the code is ok. For newer
versions of VS it's a bit outdated. I have a patch somewhere and will
post it when I found it back.

Hans


It could be, the code worked as late as 2003. I dont think much has
changed but whatever it may be, should be rather simple to fix.


Indeed, it is ather simple to fix. I did it this way and never had
problems with it. The old version doesn't compile with VS2005.

Hans

void CHtmlCtrl::OnDestroy()
{
        // This is probably unecessary since ~CHtmlView does it, =

but

        // safer to mimic CHtmlView::OnDestroy.
/*
        if (m_pBrowserApp) {
                m_pBrowserApp->Release();
                m_pBrowserApp = NULL;
        }
*/
        LPDISPATCH lpd = GetParentBrowser();
        if (lpd)
                lpd->Release();

        CWnd::OnDestroy(); // bypass CView doc/frame stuff

}


Thank you for taking the time to post this code.

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