Easy Webbrowser Writing Guide 2011




View the tutorial and download the project files, all or separately
<http://www.delphi7.nl/progressbar/index.html>





December 2006



Initial release of Easy Progressbar Writing Guide, simple but useful, if
not for others than it was at least useful for myself, I had a hard time
grasping this concept.

This tutorial shows you how to add a progressbar to any webbrowser
programs you make in less than 2 minutes. It is very basic, and kept as
short as possible, you can figure out most of the code just by looking
at it. Aimed at beginners, this gives you an easy and quick way to have
a working progressbar which informs the user of the progress the
webbrowser is making! You can then focus on the other tasks like for
instance the graphical representation to make it the way you want it.
Included is the completed example.

I hope this little bit of conceptual knowledge will help you.

I like to hear your opinion, comments, problems you may have while using
this helpfile, this goes for all of my published stuff, please email me
I would very much appreciate it.



February 2011


If you managed to stay awake during the first version and want to add
some extra features feel free to read through the rest of the tutorial,
there might be some interesting features which you would want to have a
look at. I have changed the name to Easy Webbrowser Writing Guide 2011
since I have added 15 more features that were more related to the
Twebbrowser than to the TProgressbar.


For every chapter I have added the completed source code plus a working
demo, what follows is the navigational structure. Every chapter can be
viewed separately as follows

01 Create a webbrowser with progressbar
02 Adding a download current url button
03 Enable copy and paste
04 Adding find feature
05 Adding an edit current page feature
06 Add print features
07 Create a list links feature
08 Are we online?
09 Change the color of the TProgressbar
10 Put the progressbar on a statusbar
11 Retrieve and display the MAC address
12 Get and show the Network Group Name
13 Display the local IP
14 Further populating the TStatusbar
15 Create and save screen capture
16 Add standard navigation and essential procedures


Here are all the demo's of each follow up tutorial, in the right order.
So if you download the last one, it contains all the previous features.
These concern the Delphi project files, units, forms, resources and
compiled exe. Full source code is present of course.
The separate chapters can be downloaded below:

Download chapter 1 - Create a custom progressbar
Download chapter 2 - Adding a download current url button
Download chapter 3 - Enable copy and paste
Download chapter 4 - Adding find feature
Download chapter 5 - Adding an edit current page feature
Download chapter 6 - Add print features
Download chapter 7 - Create a list links feature
Download chapter 8 - Are we online?
Download chapter 9 - Set the color of the progressbar
Download chapter 10 - Place the progressbar over a statusbar
Download chapter 11 - Populate statusbar with MAC address
Download chapter 12 - Retrieve Network Group Name and show it
Download chapter 13 - Display the local IP on the statusbar
Download chapter 14 - Fill up the last TPanel with some info
Download chapter 15 - Capture screenshot from url
Download chapter 16 - Adding navigation



In total this guide has been downloaded thousands of times since its
first release, which was my only goal and reward, and this will always
be the main reason for me writing such projects. I know I did my utmost
to make this a helpful project, and I also know that this tutorial has
taken weeks of my time, having said that, I did at least try to help
out, it is up to you if and how you rate it.



Warm regards, Nullified

March 29 2011






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