TExplorerD4 is a freeware component for
Inprise Delphi 4.0 that embed a Microsoft Explorer 4.0 or earlier ActiveX and can control
a Delphi application using HTML pages and Links. It's derived from the shareware version
of TExplorerCommand for Delphi 3.0, actually in free download.
It can browse HTML pages, run ActiveX
controls, run Java Script or VB Script and so on. And, this is the meaning of the
component, it can inform your application when the user click on a HREF correctly
formatted to be a command.
For example, this can be a
correctly formatted command (don't click, it does not run outside the sample program):
http://pragma$exam$cmd/time$show
This command, if used in the
example program, will show a timer in overlap of the banner part of this page. Note that
the timer is a standard Text object, and a timer object change it's text property to the
current time an date every second.
The OnCommand
event send you the command name and the parameter part, as two strings. In the event case
you can run every Delphi procedure or function.
In the example
page you can find many samples of code that can be used with the TExplorerD4
component. With the expld4.zip file there is a sample program that show you the way the
component can be used. In the FAQ page you can find some useful
information, updated weekly.
If you download the component,
remember that it only run if you have Microsoft Explorer 4.0x or 5.0x installed. Otherwise
you will receive an OLE error.
In the properties, methods and event pages you can find the new component properties. There
are no info regarding the WebBrowser ancestral component, info that you can find looking
the Microsoft site.
In the info
page you can find the shareware disclaimer and how send us the fee to have the source
code of this component.
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