web browser within servoy (icebrowser) issue

Classic Servoy
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Hi everyone,

A critical part of my solution needs to display ASP pages within Servoy. However, the HTMLpane doesn’t show the dynamic contents of ASP page (such as mouseover tips, etc).

We contracted out icesoft (icebrowser) to see if they can develop a bean to make this work. They came back with a negative answer. See below. Does anyone know of any other way to render ASP pages inside Servoy? Something about conflicting jar file?

The asp pages is a very critical part of our solution. We would definitely like to get this working.

Thanks,
sammy

email from icesoft:

We have evaluated the requirements for this and have had discussions with Servoy. Part of the problem stems from Servoy already using an older version of ICEbrowser and as a result there are conflicting jar files. At this time we are unable to resolve this issue and are unable to commit to providing support for Servoy within the ICEbrowser Bean product. As a result we will not be going ahead with your license and we do not have plans at this point to incorporate this in the future.

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From what I understand is that ICEsoft made a (mega) deal with Oracle to let them use the ICEbrowser in their Oracle Help browser. And that Oracle can distribute this browser for free.
So this is the reason why Servoy has the older jar files because they use the Oracle Help browser for their help files.

Now if Servoy could make a deal with ICEsoft to use the new version of ICEbrowser and bundle it with Servoy. Even use it for their help browser (so there are no conflicting java classes)
I for one am very willing to pay extra to have that bundled with Servoy.

(and make it so that it hyperlinks also can trigger Servoy methods and load media from the database :) , hey I can dream now can’t I :wink: )

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sammyzheng:
We contracted out icesoft (icebrowser) to see if they can develop a bean to make this work. They came back with a negative answer. See below. Does anyone know of any other way to render ASP pages inside Servoy? Something about conflicting jar file?

Did you test one of the Applets available? I’ve taken a look on SourceForge, just before ServoyWorld and I’m almost sure there are web browsers available.
Maybe one of them can do what you’re asking for…

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Now if Servoy could make a deal with ICEsoft to use the new version of ICEbrowser and bundle it with Servoy. Even use it for their help browser (so there are no conflicting java classes)
I for one am very willing to pay extra to have that bundled with Servoy.

oh.. that would be wonderfull! :D

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Riccardino:

sammyzheng:
We contracted out icesoft (icebrowser) to see if they can develop a bean to make this work. They came back with a negative answer. See below. Does anyone know of any other way to render ASP pages inside Servoy? Something about conflicting jar file?

Did you test one of the Applets available? I’ve taken a look on SourceForge, just before ServoyWorld and I’m almost sure there are web browsers available.
Maybe one of them can do what you’re asking for…

So does anyone know of a browser then?

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ROCLASI:
and make it so that it hyperlinks also can trigger Servoy methods and load media from the database :slight_smile: , hey I can dream now can’t I :wink: )

Robert - you can already do both of those things today:

<a href="javascript:myMethod('param01', 'paramo2')">Link</a>

To load media from a field:

 'media:///servoy_blobloader?servername=' +
        controller.getServerName() + '&tablename=' + controller.getTableName() +
        '&dataprovider=image_field&rowid1= ' + record.primarykeyid

Hope this helps.

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Hi Bob,

I know that though. I use that extensively in my HTML GUI’s.
I was referring to ICEbrowser.
I.e. I would like to have ICEbrowser but with the intergration that the current HTML_AREA field has.

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AH! Yep.

Have you got ICEbrowser working with Servoy??

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Hi Bob,

I haven’t tested it yet due to time constraints but I read in this thread that it’s not gonna work because of the problems mentioned here.
I guess it will work when you rip out the Servoy Help functionality but that’s not really desirable ofcourse.

So that’s the reason of my out-loud thinking/wishing of having Servoy making a deal with ICEsoft and use the new ICEbrower (both in servoy as in the Help) instead of the Oracle ICEbrowser implementation so that there are no conflicting class paths.

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yeah Bob, talk to the guys! Make it happen! :D

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I just got this email:

Harjo,

I wish to advise you that we will not be providing support for Servoy in the ICEbrowser Bean product. There are some complications between the code (Servoy uses some existing ICEbrowser code which is an older version creating compatibility problems) which we are unable to address at this time.

I will be in contact with Servoy to see if they are interested in creating a Bean product using ICEbrowser SDK. If there is any news on this I will let you know.

Regards,

Wilbur
ICEsoft

:cry:

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Hi guys.

Our Browser Bean embeds a native browser.
You can read about our just released software and download it from here:
http://forum.servoy.com/viewtopic.php?t=6516