I am developing projects on ie-addons.
I want to record the new tab action when the user clicks the A tag or the script calls window.open (url, '_ blank') ;.
I used OnNewWindow2 / OnNewWindow3. However, some win7 and win10 machines do not work. When running on the dev machine (win7, vs2017, ie11), it works very stable.
I don't know why and is there any other way to capture this event on all computers.
I am developing the application on win7 / 10 and ie11
Thank you
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We use Openkiosk ( Firefox browser Based ) - credits MDG for kiosk operation of our web application running through IIS ( MVC web app) and SQL Serever . We have configured it to automatically start on windows log in by using the GPO - custom User Interface and it works perfectly fine.
The purpose of launching the web application in full screen is to prevent Desktop access to the user and also disable all short cut keys .
Of late we have received a new requirement where we have to Launch another desktop app ( exe. ) on demand when the Openkiosk is open and switch in between both the Openkiosk app as well as the exe app whenever the user requires . Since the desktop is not visible how we launch the Desktop is the question and also ,Since the Key board is disabled Alt Tabs wont work. Kindly advise and guide how we can achieve this ?
Still figuring it out how to achieve this
Detailed explanation:
Windows 8.1 targeted app package bundle for x86 and ARM architectures was uploaded to the Windows Store;
Windows Store approved it as a valid app, and published it using targeted distribution (Beta release for specific e-mail addresses), and gave me two different links for each Store: Windows 10 - www.microsoft.com/store/apps/some_code; Windows 8 - apps.microsoft.com/windows/app/some_other_code;
Both links redirect to the same page in the web version of Windows Store (and instantly opens the Store App with the game page open): www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/games/game-name/another_code;
When you click the Windows 10 store link on Windows 10 machine, the Store App opens, and app is downloaded smoothly and easily;
BUT when you open the link to the Windows 8.1 Store on a Windows 8.1 machine, Store App opens, refreshes one time, but instead of displaying the app page, it shows the Home page, and you cannot download the app at all from the official Windows 8.1 Store, even though the browser page includes Windows 8.1 in supported OS'es list;
Some additional comments:
in both machines I am connected to the Store using an account, which is in the list of targeted distribution partners (e.g. in the "whitelist" of beta users);
App is working normally both on Windows 10 and Windows 8.1 when I am installing them using the ".ps1" PowerShell script Visual Studio generates when building a release package;
I tried to change regions in the Store (UK, LT, US, etc.), but none of them works.
If you need more information - comment, I will try to explain more details :)
Finally, I have found an answer here:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/publish/set-app-pricing-and-availability
"If you want to hide your app in the Store but still make it available to certain people, select one of the following options to limit your app's availability. Note that customers on Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 won't be able to get the app at all if you choose any of these options."
Since our app was hidden, e.g. "targeted distribution" (with certain e-mail addresses in the "white-list"), we couldn't test the app in the Windows 8.1 store. (Don't ask why, but..) Microsoft does not allow this functionality on Windows 8.1 machines, as mentioned in the article above.
I have made a personal app using VB. The app uses Webbrowser control to load modern site so I edited my registry to have my app use Windows 8.1 IE browser instead of ActiveX browser built in with VB.
The registry edit I made was,
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION]
"APPLICATION.exe"=dword:00000000
This worked fine with the application until I upgrade it to Windows 10. Now the application won't load the browser if I have the key and when I delete it, it uses the default ActiveX control which doesn't support many things. Is there any way to make it work ? IE is still there on Windows 10 but I am guessing Edge is the problem ?
The dword value should be 11000 in decimal, so the WebBrowser control displays the Web page like the Internet Explorer 11.
Add the same dword inside
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_NATIVE_DOCUMENT_MODE]
to be sure it works properly.
I have an external kiosk application that I'm trying to run it on tablet computer which has Windows 8 OS.
The thing is, that Windows 8 doesn't allow to use any external applications in kiosk mode. Only applications that based on Win 8 are allowed.
The problem with my kiosk application that while running you can drag it with the finger and the task bar and the desktop background are revealed and I don't want that to happen.
I want it to be locked to the screen without any option to move.
The application starts automatically when the win 8 goes up.
1)I tried to search at the registry to cancel part of the touch options. Without any actual result. There are few options to cancel some of the windows widgets at the left and right corners of the screen or cancel the touch option at all.
2)I've got the option to use a 3rd party applications, but I'm trying to prevent it for now.
Forget about windows internal kiosk mode as nightmare - it not works as expected and you can't change this. Create new user 'kiosk' and use next registry key for your app:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"Shell"="C:\\full\\path\\to\\your\\application.exe>"
And configure autologin for this user:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"AutoAdminLogon"="1"
"ForceAutoLogon"="1"
"DefaultUserName"="kiosk"
"DefaultDomainName"="<place here pc hostname>"
"DefaultPassword"=""
And you will get the result you want.
I have been tasked with writing a simple one-time-use Metro/windows store/modern UI (whatever you want to call it now) app for windows 8; it wouldn't be appropriate to try to get it into the store, because we only plan on deploying it to about 4 or 5 devices. I noticed that when I installed Chrome on the machine, it somehow managed to sneak a metro version of itself into my start menu.
I am not looking for a way to deploy a metro app to another machine, I can already do this a variety of ways (including add-appxpackage and via the remote debugger tools with visual studio 2012), I am only curious how Chrome managed to side-load a metro app, and what process they used.
Anyone have any ideas?
There was no side-loading of a Windows App when Chrome was installed. Browsers get special treatment, and the default browser (and only the default browser) can act as a Windows Store app if it implements the appropriate functionality.
There is a downloadable white paper about how this works on MSDN:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh465413.aspx