How can I open xul forms in Lotes Notes (8.5.2)? I read this, but I still don't understand.
Wolfgang's post shows how to generate a XUL form blending in data from a Lotus Notes database. You can create a Page in Notes and insert any text content that you'd like output to a browser. In this case the content-type of the page is set to application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml
When that Notes database is on a Domino server, and you visit that page in your browser, you will be opening a XUL form. Since XUL only works on Mozilla-based browsers (i.e Firefox 3.5), other browsers will prompt you to download the content. When you do visit with the Mozilla browser you'll see the XUL form (presumably. None of my browsers support it)
Firefox 4 has done away with Remote XUL support, BTW, so this isn't a good technology to get to wrapped up in. (although the same could be said for Notes? Ouch.)
If you'd like to test your browser using a working example, check out Jake Howlett's blog post on XUL and follow the link to his demo.
The article you're referring to is just showing on how you can add XUL code to a Notes view, which in turn can be then served to a browser by a web-enabled Domino server.
Domino Designer is not suitable for developing XUL code per se, but the Domino architecture is flexible enough to be able to contain the XUL form inside the Domino form and pass it to the browser to render it.
The above answer explains it in detail...
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I am working on an automation project, in which I need to capture the activities [ application launched, data entered, input type etc.] user performs on a desktop. I came across Microsoft UI Automation framework which so far works well for native windows based applications like MS Office, .NET apps etc. However I did not find any useful information / samples of capturing the information from different web browsers [Chrome is a must], Python apps, Java Apps etc. Can someone please confirm whether MS UI Automation Framework supports such apps. Any working example to extract user activities from these apps would be highly appreciated. Thanks.
Chrome only supports UI Automation for toolbars, tabs, menu, buttons around the web page. Everything that's rendered as a web page is not seen by UIA.
For the web page content, the easiest way is to use Selenium (driven by the ChromeDriver), which is kind of a de facto standard for browsers, and has nothing to do with UIA.
To test if an app supports UIA, and how far it does, it's very easy, just run UIA's Inspect tool and check the UI tree over that application.
Some additions to Simon's answer...
Chrome page content can be seen by UIA if you run chrome --force-renderer-accessibility. Only for existing Chrome process it won't work. Though user can create a new tab chrome://accessibility manually and enable UIA for all or some chosen pages. This method also works for AT-SPI accessibility technology on Linux. Of course, Selenium WebDriver is an industry standard here. But another way exists. Both Mozilla and IE support UIA by default.
Inspect.exe can be simply downloaded from this GitHub repo.
Regarding Java apps it depends on the app type. Your chances is about 50/50.
WxPython or PyQt5 are good for UIA. TkInter or Kivy apps are not.
P.S. There is an example how to drag a file from explorer.exe and drop to Google Drive in Chrome using Python library pywinauto.
I'm a bit late to the party..
But Chromes accessibility features are only activated once something tries to access it's accessibility.
If you call AccessibleObjectFromWindow ([DllImport("oleacc.dll")]) with the window handle an existing chrome window will have its accessibility activated (and you'll see the actual web page content in UIA!).
If the chrome window is opened after your app is running - Chrome pings open processes for any open accessibility apps... for that you use AccessibleObjectFromEvent and the event you're responding to comes from the windows pipeline: EVENT_SYSTEM_ALERT = 0x0002 .
The bottom line is - you have to tell chrome that there's something installed that wants to access it's web page content.
Oh! and your application has to be signed!! Unsigned apps won't be able to access web content - I think that's the same in firefox too.
I hope this helps someone in the future.
See:
https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/accessibility
Im creating a freeware application (long live the free community) and I'm trying to add various features that might drive people to use the application such as implementing whatsapp web https://web.whatsapp.com/ into the app so that the user will always have an "always on top" window with their chats rather than everytime having to switch tabs if they're multitasking on their browser.
The problem i am having is that the built in Browser control with VS 2013 does not work with whatsapp web and i get the option to use supported browsers like firefox...chrome...safari.
Is there anyway to make a VB.NET application open an actual chrome/firefox based browser within itself?
I found an article on Gecko Browser...I am not sure if web.whatsapp.com would see this as a firefox browser: http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?692005-Mozilla-Firefox-Gecko-Xulrunner-in-VB-NET-%28versions-14-and-up%29
Help appreciated.
I have tried this on numerous pc's and are receiving the same error. My webbrowser control isnt displaying javascript or jquery.
Here is a example:
when i visit this url in my browser: https://binarykings.co.uk/traderoom-aspx, it looks great with the charts and prices etc.
example: http://i.imgur.com/1Lmq4em.png
same in internet explorer: http://i.imgur.com/3KP864X.png
however in my vb.net webbrowser control it looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/qjme2Yg.jpg
What is causing this ? Its not just this site but any other site that has a similar way of displaying things via jquery/javascript.
I do have script errors suppressed however when i disabled this and clicked yes to the errors manually it still displayed the same empty page.
Thanks
The WebBrowser control uses the Internet Explorer rendering engine. But by default, for compatibility reasons, it is stuck using the IE 7 rendering engine, even if you have a later version of the browser installed on your computer.
There are a couple of ways to convince it to use a newer version of IE to render the page. One involves editing the registry, while the other involves modifying the web page.
In general, it is best to avoid attempts to solve local problems with global solutions like registry edits. There might be another app running on the same machine that uses the WebBrowser control and relies on the behavior of the IE 7 rendering engine. If you go changing global settings, you'll mess up that other app.
Therefore, the best solution, if possible, is to edit the web page. This is quite simple, and probably a good idea anyway. All you need to do is add the following code inside of the <head> section:
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=9" >
If you absolutely must use the alternative approach of editing the registry, you'll find the information you need here in the documentation.
I need to create a way so that when users load our webpage inside IEmetro it switches them to IE10 Desktop automatically. Reason behind this is our website features won't work in IEmetro. our site is built in Aspx and cs code, java script and uses some jquery at times.
Does anyone have an idea how we can achieve this?
You don't have any control over what browser the user is using; and there is no reason why your site should not work in Internet Explorer in the Modern UI (formerly 'Metro'). The two browsers are nearly identical in just about every way.
If you're having problems working with Internet Explorer 10, please ask a more specific question here and/or work through the Internet Explorer 10 Guide for Developers.
I would also be interested in this.
IEMetro unfortunately has a number of features disabled, and shows javascript alerts differently drastically altering the user experience.
We have been facing a weird problem with PDF documents displayed in Safari. This problem is reproducible in many of our machines. The problem is like this..
Adobe Reader has support for hit highlighting in PDF documents when it is being viewed in any browser. For example,
http://www.mysite.com/myfile.pdf#xml=http://www.somesite.com/words.txt
This URL should highlight the words specified in words.txt file. But, unfortunately many of our Safari browsers (on Windows machines) don't highlight any text in opened pdf file. The same URL works fine in rest of the browsers (IE, Firefox and Chrome). I could not figure out where the problem is!
Can anybody please help me on this?
Thanks in advance,
Safari uses a built-in PDF plugin exclusive to safari (even on iPhone)
This is different from the Adobe's plugin and the API is different too.
Most of the things that work with the Adobe plugin won't work with the one inside Safari.
you may be able to find information about forcing Safari to use the Adobe Reader plugin (Google is your friend) but that would be a per user setting, something you cannot control on everybody's machine.
I'm also looking for help on this to control pdf files inside safari using javascript.