Re: Hosting AxBrowser

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From: Robert Conde (conde_at_ai-solutions.com)
Date: 10/07/04 

Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 17:29:51 -0400

Yes - I've solved that problem and all other problems too(selecting text, 3d
border, etc) - except this one...I gave up and switched to a label - it
limits what I can display but the hourglass is too annoying to be
acceptable - it's not that it just gives away that I'm using a browser - it
just looks...not right.

I've tried weird things like trying to trap WM_SETCURSOR or using Spy++ to
see what the browser window is doing - but to no avail. If there is a
workaround it's probably very ugly unfortunately...but i might consider it
if it was safe.

Rob

"Alex K" <Alex K@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A7F20890-4543-4485-AEC3-3A57641D1418@microsoft.com...
> There's probably a way of doing this but I recommend that you just leave
> it
> the way it is. I've done lots of UI work and I don't believe that the
> hourglass gives the user an indication that you are using a browser
> control.
> There are other bigger things that could give you away. For example right
> click context menu which you hopefully already solved.
>
> "Robert Conde" wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I am using the AxWebrowser control on my windows form and it's 99%
>> working the way I want...however, I have hooked things up so when you
>> mouse
>> over a control on the form, a different web page is sent to the browser
>> control. The problem is that the cursor is very briefly showing the
>> hourglass everytime this happens. I don't want the end user to even know
>> the
>> fact that this is a browser...so the wait cursor is a bit inconvienient
>> and
>> annoying. Anybody have an idea about how I might fix this "problem"?
>>
>> Robert Conde
>>
>>
>>

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