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Behzad
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      24th Jun 2006
Hi all,

Is there anybody out there who knows how to embed Mozilla engin in
CSharp application.
There are some useful articles in codeproject.com that show how to work
around this issue with IE ; but need embed mozilla in my windows form.


thanks in advance
Behzad

 
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Mehdi
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      24th Jun 2006
On 24 Jun 2006 07:35:24 -0700, Behzad wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Is there anybody out there who knows how to embed Mozilla engin in
> CSharp application.
> There are some useful articles in codeproject.com that show how to work
> around this issue with IE ; but need embed mozilla in my windows form.


There is the Mozilla ActiveX project:
<http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozilla.htm>

Their ActiveX control even has the same API as the IE ActiveX. Not tested
though.
 
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Behzad
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      25th Jun 2006
hi,

Thanks.
Best regards
Behzad

 
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Dylan Parry
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      25th Jun 2006
Mehdi wrote:

> There is the Mozilla ActiveX project:
> <http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozilla.htm>


Has anyone here actually tried using this? I've tried it myself, but the
installation instructions on the above page are very unclear - what
exactly do you have to install in order to be able to use it? Do you
actually need to install the whole Mozilla program as well as the
ActiveX control? I managed to get it working on my own machine, but when
installing my program and the ActiveX control on a client machine it
wouldn't run :s

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Jesse Houwing
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      25th Jun 2006
Dylan Parry wrote:
> Mehdi wrote:
>
>> There is the Mozilla ActiveX project:
>> <http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozilla.htm>

>
> Has anyone here actually tried using this? I've tried it myself, but the
> installation instructions on the above page are very unclear - what
> exactly do you have to install in order to be able to use it? Do you
> actually need to install the whole Mozilla program as well as the
> ActiveX control? I managed to get it working on my own machine, but when
> installing my program and the ActiveX control on a client machine it
> wouldn't run :s
>


Yes you need to install either Mozilla Seamonkey or Mozilla Firefox in
order to use it. I guess you might be able to find out exactly which
dll's are needed and ship those with your application, but as it stands
it requires the complete install.

Keep in mind that you need to have IE installed to use the WebBrowser
control aswell.

Jesse
 
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Dylan Parry
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      26th Jun 2006
Jesse Houwing wrote:

> Yes you need to install either Mozilla Seamonkey or Mozilla Firefox in
> order to use it.


Ah, thanks. That's a bit of a pain

> I guess you might be able to find out exactly which dll's are needed
> and ship those with your application, but as it stands it requires
> the complete install.


It would be more helpful, imho, if the Mozilla ActiveX component was
shipped with the relevant Gecko DLL files. As it is however, I will see
if I can figure out what files I need and try to come up with something
myself.

The strange thing is that *both* Mozilla and Firefox were installed on
the system that my application wouldn't run on :s

> Keep in mind that you need to have IE installed to use the WebBrowser
> control aswell.


Helpfully (or not, depending on perspective!), IE comes as default on
Windows systems

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GhostInAK
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      26th Jun 2006
Hello Dylan,

As Dylan points out.. IE is already installed and encapsulated in the new
WebBrowser control. Why not just use that.

-Boo

> Jesse Houwing wrote:
>
>> Yes you need to install either Mozilla Seamonkey or Mozilla Firefox
>> in order to use it.
>>

> Ah, thanks. That's a bit of a pain
>
>> I guess you might be able to find out exactly which dll's are needed
>> and ship those with your application, but as it stands it requires
>> the complete install.
>>

> It would be more helpful, imho, if the Mozilla ActiveX component was
> shipped with the relevant Gecko DLL files. As it is however, I will
> see if I can figure out what files I need and try to come up with
> something myself.
>
> The strange thing is that *both* Mozilla and Firefox were installed on
> the system that my application wouldn't run on :s
>
>> Keep in mind that you need to have IE installed to use the WebBrowser
>> control aswell.
>>

> Helpfully (or not, depending on perspective!), IE comes as default on
> Windows systems
>



 
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Dylan Parry
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      27th Jun 2006
GhostInAK wrote:

> As Dylan points out.. IE is already installed and encapsulated in the new
> WebBrowser control. Why not just use that.


Because IE lacks the CSS support that I need Either way, I have
managed to get it working fine now. I installed *only* the ActiveX
control, which does actually come with the required DLL files to work
out of the box without Mozilla or Firefox being installed, and then
discovered that the applications using it will only run from a local
drive, whereas I was trying to run them from a network drive.



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