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Windows 11 and Browser Control

Steven Burrows
 

Testing XPA 4.7 under Windows 11 looks good with a few GUI changes that seem improvements to me.

The only issue we have found is when we try and display a PDF with the XPA Browser Control we get “Navigation to the webpage was canceled” as if the file name is wrong (don’t think it is)

 

Pasting the PDF file name into Edge displays correctly.

 

Any ideas ?

 

(I cant do too much investigation, just using Hyper-V to run a test environment, cant really use Studio on it quite yet)

Steven Burrows

 
Todd Baremore
 

Steven,

Try using a .NET browser
System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser
There is no change in behavior in Windows 11 that I have found so far.

I believe the browser control was based upon Internet Explorer which is no longer a part of Windows 11.  I could be wrong about this.
Todd
On 11/1/2021 5:04 AM, Steven Burrows wrote:

Testing XPA 4.7 under Windows 11 looks good with a few GUI changes that seem improvements to me.

The only issue we have found is when we try and display a PDF with the XPA Browser Control we get “Navigation to the webpage was canceled” as if the file name is wrong (don’t think it is)

 

Pasting the PDF file name into Edge displays correctly.

 

Any ideas ?

 

(I cant do too much investigation, just using Hyper-V to run a test environment, cant really use Studio on it quite yet)

Steven Burrows

 
Steven Burrows
 

Thanks,

Tried that, same result.

One thing I missed is that (both methods) ask to open/save the PDF file.

 

Steven Burrows

 

From: main@magicu-l.groups.io <main@magicu-l.groups.io> On Behalf Of Todd Baremore via groups.io
Sent: 01 November 2021 12:45
To: main@magicu-l.groups.io
Subject: Re: [magicu-l] Windows 11 and Browser Control

 

 

Steven,

Try using a .NET browser
System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser
There is no change in behavior in Windows 11 that I have found so far.

I believe the browser control was based upon Internet Explorer which is no longer a part of Windows 11.  I could be wrong about this.

Todd

On 11/1/2021 5:04 AM, Steven Burrows wrote:

Testing XPA 4.7 under Windows 11 looks good with a few GUI changes that seem improvements to me.

The only issue we have found is when we try and display a PDF with the XPA Browser Control we get “Navigation to the webpage was canceled” as if the file name is wrong (don’t think it is)

 

Pasting the PDF file name into Edge displays correctly.

 

Any ideas ?

 

(I cant do too much investigation, just using Hyper-V to run a test environment, cant really use Studio on it quite yet)

Steven Burrows


 

 
Todd Baremore
 

You may need to load the PDF in to a BLOB and use
DNSet(PM.DocumentText,Trim(PL))
DNSet(v Browser.DocumentText,Trim(v html page BLOB))

In your case PL would contain the pdf file.

Todd
On 11/1/2021 10:19 AM, Steven Burrows wrote:

Thanks,

Tried that, same result.

One thing I missed is that (both methods) ask to open/save the PDF file.

 

Steven Burrows

 

From: main@magicu-l.groups.io <main@magicu-l.groups.io> On Behalf Of Todd Baremore via groups.io
Sent: 01 November 2021 12:45
To: main@magicu-l.groups.io
Subject: Re: [magicu-l] Windows 11 and Browser Control

 

 

Steven,

Try using a .NET browser
System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser
There is no change in behavior in Windows 11 that I have found so far.

I believe the browser control was based upon Internet Explorer which is no longer a part of Windows 11.  I could be wrong about this.

Todd

On 11/1/2021 5:04 AM, Steven Burrows wrote:

Testing XPA 4.7 under Windows 11 looks good with a few GUI changes that seem improvements to me.

The only issue we have found is when we try and display a PDF with the XPA Browser Control we get “Navigation to the webpage was canceled” as if the file name is wrong (don’t think it is)

 

Pasting the PDF file name into Edge displays correctly.

 

Any ideas ?

 

(I cant do too much investigation, just using Hyper-V to run a test environment, cant really use Studio on it quite yet)

Steven Burrows


 

 
Steven Burrows
 

Thanks, tried :

v Blob = File2Blb(v File)

DNSET (v Browser.DocumentText, TRIM(v Blob))

 

And get a page of raw PDF.

Am I missing an intermediate step to embed the PDF in some HTML ?

 

Steven Burrows

 

From: main@magicu-l.groups.io <main@magicu-l.groups.io> On Behalf Of Todd Baremore via groups.io
Sent: 01 November 2021 14:30
To: main@magicu-l.groups.io
Subject: Re: [magicu-l] Windows 11 and Browser Control

 

You may need to load the PDF in to a BLOB and use
DNSet(PM.DocumentText,Trim(PL))
DNSet(v Browser.DocumentText,Trim(v html page BLOB))

In your case PL would contain the pdf file.


Todd

On 11/1/2021 10:19 AM, Steven Burrows wrote:

Thanks,

Tried that, same result.

One thing I missed is that (both methods) ask to open/save the PDF file.

 

Steven Burrows


 

From: main@magicu-l.groups.io <main@magicu-l.groups.io> On Behalf Of Todd Baremore via groups.io
Sent: 01 November 2021 12:45
To: main@magicu-l.groups.io
Subject: Re: [magicu-l] Windows 11 and Browser Control

 

 

Steven,

Try using a .NET browser
System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser
There is no change in behavior in Windows 11 that I have found so far.

I believe the browser control was based upon Internet Explorer which is no longer a part of Windows 11.  I could be wrong about this.


Todd

On 11/1/2021 5:04 AM, Steven Burrows wrote:

Testing XPA 4.7 under Windows 11 looks good with a few GUI changes that seem improvements to me.

The only issue we have found is when we try and display a PDF with the XPA Browser Control we get “Navigation to the webpage was canceled” as if the file name is wrong (don’t think it is)

 

Pasting the PDF file name into Edge displays correctly.

 

Any ideas ?

 

(I cant do too much investigation, just using Hyper-V to run a test environment, cant really use Studio on it quite yet)

Steven Burrows



 

 

 
Todd Baremore
 

Steven,

You may need to invest in something like:
https://www.e-iceblue.com/Introduce/free-pdf-viewer-net.html

I open pdfs in the default application. The security for Content Copying and Changes are set to "No"

Todd
On 11/1/2021 11:59 AM, Steven Burrows wrote:

Thanks, tried :

v Blob = File2Blb(v File)

DNSET (v Browser.DocumentText, TRIM(v Blob))

 

And get a page of raw PDF.

Am I missing an intermediate step to embed the PDF in some HTML ?

 

Steven Burrows

 

From: main@magicu-l.groups.io <main@magicu-l.groups.io> On Behalf Of Todd Baremore via groups.io
Sent: 01 November 2021 14:30
To: main@magicu-l.groups.io
Subject: Re: [magicu-l] Windows 11 and Browser Control

 

You may need to load the PDF in to a BLOB and use
DNSet(PM.DocumentText,Trim(PL))
DNSet(v Browser.DocumentText,Trim(v html page BLOB))

In your case PL would contain the pdf file.


Todd

On 11/1/2021 10:19 AM, Steven Burrows wrote:

Thanks,

Tried that, same result.

One thing I missed is that (both methods) ask to open/save the PDF file.

 

Steven Burrows


 

From: main@magicu-l.groups.io <main@magicu-l.groups.io> On Behalf Of Todd Baremore via groups.io
Sent: 01 November 2021 12:45
To: main@magicu-l.groups.io
Subject: Re: [magicu-l] Windows 11 and Browser Control

 

 

Steven,

Try using a .NET browser
System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser
There is no change in behavior in Windows 11 that I have found so far.

I believe the browser control was based upon Internet Explorer which is no longer a part of Windows 11.  I could be wrong about this.


Todd

On 11/1/2021 5:04 AM, Steven Burrows wrote:

Testing XPA 4.7 under Windows 11 looks good with a few GUI changes that seem improvements to me.

The only issue we have found is when we try and display a PDF with the XPA Browser Control we get “Navigation to the webpage was canceled” as if the file name is wrong (don’t think it is)

 

Pasting the PDF file name into Edge displays correctly.

 

Any ideas ?

 

(I cant do too much investigation, just using Hyper-V to run a test environment, cant really use Studio on it quite yet)

Steven Burrows



 

 

 
Brendan Wheeler
 

Did anyone ever find a solution to the below? We store pdfs as blobs in the database. It would be great to view them in the .net browser without having  first fo Blb2file to create a physical pdf. 
I aslo just get raw data in the browser when I tried the DNSET below. 

Thanks, tried :

v Blob = File2Blb(v File)

DNSET (v Browser.DocumentText, TRIM(v Blob))

 

And get a page of raw PDF.

Am I missing an intermediate step to embed the PDF in some HTML ?

 

Steven Burrows
Steven Burrows
 

I gave up on the premise that I did not see how the browser control would have any way of identifying the file format (correctly or incorrectly, but it was a reason)

We now do a Blob to File into the OS Temp area with a GUID as the filename and let Windows tidy it up whenever it likes

 

Steven Burrows

 

From: main@magicu-l.groups.io <main@magicu-l.groups.io> On Behalf Of Brendan Wheeler via groups.io
Sent: 09 September 2022 13:07
To: main@magicu-l.groups.io
Subject: Re: [magicu-l] Windows 11 and Browser Control

 

Did anyone ever find a solution to the below? We store pdfs as blobs in the database. It would be great to view them in the .net browser without having  first fo Blb2file to create a physical pdf. 
I aslo just get raw data in the browser when I tried the DNSET below. 

Thanks, tried :

v Blob = File2Blb(v File)

DNSET (v Browser.DocumentText, TRIM(v Blob))

 

And get a page of raw PDF.

Am I missing an intermediate step to embed the PDF in some HTML ?

 

Steven Burrows
Brendan Wheeler
 

Hi Steve, 

Thanks for answering. Yes thats what we do, but when the user is moving between records in a table it is quite slow, due to having to keep creating these tempfiles. It seems to me that there should be a way to tell the .net browser that the blob is a PDF. But I can't find one. 
Todd Baremore
 

Brendan,

The XPA 4.8 browser control has no trouble displaying a pdf. In 4.8 the browser control is Chromium, not the old IE control. You should be able to use BrowserSetContent( ).
 
Todd
On 9/9/2022 8:21 AM, Brendan Wheeler wrote:

Hi Steve, 

Thanks for answering. Yes thats what we do, but when the user is moving between records in a table it is quite slow, due to having to keep creating these tempfiles. It seems to me that there should be a way to tell the .net browser that the blob is a PDF. But I can't find one. 

Brendan Wheeler
 

Hi Todd, thank you for the suggestion. 
However using the 4.8 browser control if I pass the blob directly to the browser using BrowserSetContent( ) I still get a page of raw data. 
The browser does not recognise it as a pdf unless I use Blb2File() to first create physical pdf.. 
Steven Burrows
 

Not here on 4.8.1, that just displays the PDF as a Unicode/Ascii string

 

Worse – While testing this, I discovered that our “foolproof” method of copying to OSTemp doesn’t work on a new RDP Server, that just shows blank.

…getting rather frustrated – Time for a cup of Tea

Steven Burrows

 

From: main@magicu-l.groups.io <main@magicu-l.groups.io> On Behalf Of Todd Baremore via groups.io
Sent: 09 September 2022 13:58
To: main@magicu-l.groups.io
Subject: Re: [magicu-l] Windows 11 and Browser Control

 

Brendan,

The XPA 4.8 browser control has no trouble displaying a pdf. In 4.8 the browser control is Chromium, not the old IE control. You should be able to use BrowserSetContent( ).

Todd

On 9/9/2022 8:21 AM, Brendan Wheeler wrote:

Hi Steve, 

Thanks for answering. Yes thats what we do, but when the user is moving between records in a table it is quite slow, due to having to keep creating these tempfiles. It seems to me that there should be a way to tell the .net browser that the blob is a PDF. But I can't find one. 

 
Todd Baremore
 

Brendan & Steve,

Apologies for not RTFMing before the post.
"BrowserSetContent
Sets the content displayed in a Browser Control with a new html text. "

There should be a way to do this using javascript and BrowserScriptExecute().  Off the top of my head, create a generic html page with a javascript function that accepts a single BLOB parameter. The type will need to be set similar to type:'application/pdf'

....20 minutes later.....
See this example:

var blob = new Blob([pdfBuffer], {type: 'application/pdf'});
var blobURL = URL.createObjectURL(blob);
window.open(blobURL);

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53066089/how-to-open-pdf-blob-using-browsers-pdf-viewer-rather-than-downloading

This would be a good Brown Bag session.

Todd


On 9/12/2022 4:56 AM, Brendan Wheeler wrote:

Hi Todd, thank you for the suggestion. 
However using the 4.8 browser control if I pass the blob directly to the browser using BrowserSetContent( ) I still get a page of raw data. 
The browser does not recognise it as a pdf unless I use Blb2File() to first create physical pdf.. 

Steven Burrows
 

Thanks, gave it a try, but still have blank control, although it’s quite likely to be me not really having a clue (I didn’t even have Microsoft.mshtml in my CRR)

 

The js looks good and BrowserScriptExecute returns TRUE, so I must be doing something right.

 

If anyone gets an XPA example working that can display a pdf blob, it would be appreciated

 

Steven Burrows

 

From: main@magicu-l.groups.io <main@magicu-l.groups.io> On Behalf Of Todd Baremore via groups.io
Sent: 12 September 2022 13:50
To: main@magicu-l.groups.io
Subject: Re: [magicu-l] Windows 11 and Browser Control

 

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Brendan & Steve,

Apologies for not RTFMing before the post.
"BrowserSetContent
Sets the content displayed in a Browser Control with a new html text. "

There should be a way to do this using javascript and BrowserScriptExecute().  Off the top of my head, create a generic html page with a javascript function that accepts a single BLOB parameter. The type will need to be set similar to type:'application/pdf'

....20 minutes later.....
See this example:

var blob = new Blob([pdfBuffer], {type: 'application/pdf'});
var blobURL = URL.createObjectURL(blob);
window.open(blobURL);

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53066089/how-to-open-pdf-blob-using-browsers-pdf-viewer-rather-than-downloading

This would be a good Brown Bag session.

Todd

On 9/12/2022 4:56 AM, Brendan Wheeler wrote:

Hi Todd, thank you for the suggestion. 
However using the 4.8 browser control if I pass the blob directly to the browser using BrowserSetContent( ) I still get a page of raw data. 
The browser does not recognise it as a pdf unless I use Blb2File() to first create physical pdf.. 

 
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