Hosting AxBrowser

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Robert Conde

Hi all,
I am using the AxWebrowser control on my windows form and it's 99%
working the way I want...however, I have hooked things up so when you mouse
over a control on the form, a different web page is sent to the browser
control. The problem is that the cursor is very briefly showing the
hourglass everytime this happens. I don't want the end user to even know the
fact that this is a browser...so the wait cursor is a bit inconvienient and
annoying. Anybody have an idea about how I might fix this "problem"?

Robert Conde
 
There's probably a way of doing this but I recommend that you just leave it
the way it is. I've done lots of UI work and I don't believe that the
hourglass gives the user an indication that you are using a browser control.
There are other bigger things that could give you away. For example right
click context menu which you hopefully already solved.
 
Yes - I've solved that problem and all other problems too(selecting text, 3d
border, etc) - except this one...I gave up and switched to a label - it
limits what I can display but the hourglass is too annoying to be
acceptable - it's not that it just gives away that I'm using a browser - it
just looks...not right.

I've tried weird things like trying to trap WM_SETCURSOR or using Spy++ to
see what the browser window is doing - but to no avail. If there is a
workaround it's probably very ugly unfortunately...but i might consider it
if it was safe.

Rob
 
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