1. Arthur Hefti
  2. PowerBuilder
  3. Thursday, 12 August 2021 05:44 AM UTC

Hi

I have a strange behaviour in the WebBrowser control. When I download a PDF or an Excel from a site the page turns blank and there's no way to show the content again. I need to restart the browser. When I call PrintAsPDF() the PDF shows the content of the page.

I did the test with the WebBrowser Demo by Bruce as well with the same behaviour.

When I use the original cefclient.exe sample it works fine.

Any idea?

Regards
Arthur

Miguel Leeuwe Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Monday, 16 August 2021 13:02 PM UTC
  2. PowerBuilder
  3. # 1

Hi Arthur,

I found it very helpful to use the following code in the Open() event of the application ( I was recommended to do that by Appeon Support) (it has to be in the open of the application object):

// v3, mjl, 18/06/21: seems to be a necessary setting for CEF webbrowser control:
int li_ret
string ls_ret
li_ret = WebBrowserGet("UserAgent", ref ls_ret)
if ls_ret = "" then
	li_ret = WebBrowserSet("UserAgent", "AppeonWebBrowser")
	if li_ret <> 1 then
		Messagebox("Information", "Error setting the UserAgent for the WebBrowser", information!)
	end if
end if
// v4, mjl, 05/07/21: avoid an existing Appeon bug of blowing up when using the webbrowser control on Windows Server 2012 R2:
open(w_wbrowser_dummy)
close(w_wbrowser_dummy)

string ls_docFolder
n_filesys lnf
ls_docFolder = lnf.of_getfolderpath(CSIDL_PERSONAL)

li_ret = WebBrowserSet("DownloadPath", ls_docFolder)
if li_ret <> 1 then
	Messagebox("Information", "Error setting the DownloadPath for the WebBrowser", information!)
end if
li_ret = WebBrowserSet("allow-file-access-from-files", "true")
if li_ret <> 1 then
	Messagebox("Information", "Error setting the FileAccess for the WebBrowser", information!)
end if

 

The w_wbrowser_dummy is a tiny child window with the visible attribute un-checked. (so invisible). Opening it and closing it avoids a blow-up on Windows Server 2012, when exiting the application (no problem on 2016).

Hope it might help your problem. If it doesn't, I'd think of when opening or saving a pdf file, you probably are changing the internal current directory to be set to anything else the where your application resides. Depending on if you use a runtime install or relative path to where the runtime dlls are, this might maybe cause the Cef folder no  longer being found.

regards.

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Armeen Mazda @Appeon Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Thursday, 12 August 2021 05:54 AM UTC
  2. PowerBuilder
  3. # 2

Hi Arthur, Can you open a support ticket and provide test case so we can make sure it is not a bug?

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  1. Arthur Hefti
  2. Friday, 13 August 2021 10:51 AM UTC
Hi Armeen

I check out how we can provide a sample.
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  1. Armeen Mazda @Appeon
  2. Friday, 13 August 2021 16:11 PM UTC
Thank you very much.
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