Dear Appeon Team,
we are currently trying to integrate the new WebBrowser control from PB2019R2 into our applications.
We found out that it is good for displaying our internal PDF reports as well, so we want to use it as a replacement for our previously integrated third-party PDF viewer.
The display of the PDFs works without problems but the print function of the WebBrowser control does not offer all features that are relevant for us.
The print function always opens the typical Powerbuilder print dialog to the user.
We think what's missing is the typical print function in which we can pass the different print parameters (e.g. printer to be used or number of copies etc.) and then bypass the print dialog and print immediately.
Such a print function that we are missing could look like this:
.Print(copies, pagerange, showprintdialog, ...)
If this functionality is added in the near future, we can use the WebBrowser control as an alternative to our existing integrated third-party PDF viewer.
Also nice to have within the integrated CEF - PDF Viewer would be a possibility to hide elements like the download button?
Can you point our to us, if such functionality is planned for the near future or if there alternative ways to achive our requirements?
Furthermore, it would be interesting to know what the current roadmap for further development of the WebBrowser control looks like:
How often will the underlying CEF be updated?
Will there be a possibility to reset cookies / sessions programmatically?
Until when can we expect to be able to communicate with the content of the WebBrowser control via Powerbuilder?
Thank you very much in advance.
Alexander Manes
