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Hi All,


We are in the progress of migrating our 32 bit Uniface 9 application towards a 64 bit Uniface 10 application. In our current application we use the Microsoft WebBrowser component (OCX widget: Shell.Explorer) to view a variety of documents like PDF, XLS, Autocad DWF, Flash movies and so on. Unfortunately the 32 bit WebBrowser component does not work within the 64 bit Uniface application. For a lot of documents I can switch to de HTML widget to view the content, but the the Autocad DWF viewer won't show in the HTML widget, I only get a piece of puzzle on the screen. Maybe it's due to the fact that de DWF viewer itself is a 32 bit application.

When I switch to de 32 bit Uniface 10 application the WebBrowser works and I can view the DWF document too.

Does anyone know how I can use the WebBrowser / OCX widget inside the 64 bit Uniface application?


Thanks in advance,


John Bergsma

Hi All,


We are in the progress of migrating our 32 bit Uniface 9 application towards a 64 bit Uniface 10 application. In our current application we use the Microsoft WebBrowser component (OCX widget: Shell.Explorer) to view a variety of documents like PDF, XLS, Autocad DWF, Flash movies and so on. Unfortunately the 32 bit WebBrowser component does not work within the 64 bit Uniface application. For a lot of documents I can switch to de HTML widget to view the content, but the the Autocad DWF viewer won't show in the HTML widget, I only get a piece of puzzle on the screen. Maybe it's due to the fact that de DWF viewer itself is a 32 bit application.

When I switch to de 32 bit Uniface 10 application the WebBrowser works and I can view the DWF document too.

Does anyone know how I can use the WebBrowser / OCX widget inside the 64 bit Uniface application?


Thanks in advance,


John Bergsma

Hi John,

It seems that you have to disable the extended triggers in the OCX Container. I've found the following known issue:

> RI-4279 - OCX with Shell.Explorer fails on 64-bits when extended triggers are used

I hope this helps.

Kind regards,
Daniel Iseli


Hi All,


We are in the progress of migrating our 32 bit Uniface 9 application towards a 64 bit Uniface 10 application. In our current application we use the Microsoft WebBrowser component (OCX widget: Shell.Explorer) to view a variety of documents like PDF, XLS, Autocad DWF, Flash movies and so on. Unfortunately the 32 bit WebBrowser component does not work within the 64 bit Uniface application. For a lot of documents I can switch to de HTML widget to view the content, but the the Autocad DWF viewer won't show in the HTML widget, I only get a piece of puzzle on the screen. Maybe it's due to the fact that de DWF viewer itself is a 32 bit application.

When I switch to de 32 bit Uniface 10 application the WebBrowser works and I can view the DWF document too.

Does anyone know how I can use the WebBrowser / OCX widget inside the 64 bit Uniface application?


Thanks in advance,


John Bergsma

Hi Daniel,


This seems to work. I don't know if there are component who rely on the extended triggers, but for now it's okay.


Thank,

John Bergsma

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