WebView: "open in new window" possible ?

[peacemaker]

Hi, All

Could not find or understand well - is it possible to make a multi-page browser basing on Webview ?
With possibility to have popup menu over the tapped link "Open in a new window" where the window is some new view (actually, another WebView) of the application.

 

[margret]

Webview

Hello,

You should be able to use the URL override of the current webview to catch the link, then display an option dialog to open the link, open in a new window or cancel, etc. If they select new window, then define the new webview.

 

[peacemaker]

Oh, really margret, thanks!
But what about the long tap popup menu ? Menu is no problem, but it's needed actually as in regular browser only after long tap.

EDIT: actually, i made with Reflection:
Obj1.SetOnLongClickListener("OnLongClick")
Obj1.SetOnCreateContextMenuListener("OnCreateContextMenu")

but there need to know the new link that is got only in OverrideUrl :-(

 

[peacemaker]

No help.... :-(

And i could made myself !

With Reflection:
Obj1.SetOnLongClickListener("OnLongClick")
...
and

Sub OnLongClick(viewtag As Object) As Boolean
   Dim a As Reflector, b As String, d As Object
   d = Obj1.RunMethod("getHitTestResult") 
   a.Target = d
   b = a.RunMethod("getExtra")
   If b.Contains("://") Then 
      'making popupmenu to open the link !!!!!!!!!!
   End If
End Sub

Seems, custom browser by WebView is possible :sign0060:

 

[tcgoh]

Hello,

You should be able to use the URL override of the current webview to catch the link, then display an option dialog to open the link, open in a new window or cancel, etc. If they select new window, then define the new webview.

Hi Margret,


Could you give a example. I'm very new to this overrideUrl and I'm try to allow a new window or open the defualt browser from the webview.

Thanks
TC

 

[Askjerry]

I am writing an app that does not use a webview... it is a calculator type program. At the bottom I want a button that says "Visit Us" and when they click it... I want it to open the browser and go to the page.

This is bogus code... just explaining what I want...

sub button1_click()
openbrowser("http://google.com")
activity.finish
end sub

So it would send them off to the browser... and close the current activity.

Is that possible?
Thanks,
Jerry

 

[NJDude]

Like this:

Dim i As Intent

i.Initialize(i.ACTION_VIEW, "http://www.google.com")
StartActivity(i)

 

[Askjerry]

:sign0098:
That worked perfectly!

Thanks,
Jerry