Adding Internet browsing to application 1

[ChessPro]

I need to create an active link to a website from my application.
One way I see to accomplish this is to use the TWebBrowser. The component allows for the access to the website, but there is absolutely no navigation interface (Address Bar, Tool Bar etc.), that is usually present in Internet Explorer and other browsers, just the window for the contents of the html page. There is no access to those properties either.
I guess the other way is to use CreateProcess, but I can’t get the Internet Explorer to show the particular page I need on start-up.

 

[buho]

uses ShellAPI;

var
  URL : AnsiString;
begin
  URL := '[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.tek-tips.com/';[/URL] 
  ShellExecute(0, nil, PChar(URL), nil, nil, SW_SHOWNORMAL);
end;

The code above will launch the default browser pointed to URL.

HTH.
buho (A)

 

[sggaunt]

...and there are several Free components that do simular.


Steve: Delphi a feersum engin indeed.

 

[ChessPro]

Thank you, Buho!
That worked perfectly.