Tuesday, 11 September 2007

We just started into Visual Basic a couple of days ago. I am already fairly familiar with the environment and workspace of the program.
We were asked to create a web browser. Here are the basic steps to create a basic browser:
  1. Open a new project in Visual Basic.





2. Name the file and save.
3. Add a few features to the form:

  • Text Box (for the user to enter a web address)
  • "Go" button.
  • Web Page frame.
  • Status Bar accross bottom.







    --Other Browser Stuff--


    I have been experimenting with a few different features that could be added to a browser.
    One of these has been the idea of "tabbed browsing". By adding extra WebBrowser windows layered on top of each other and made to switch out using ".visible" properties, I have found a really basic way of doing this.
    I am still experimenting and intend on trying to use arrays to make more tabs "on the fly" instead of having them set in the browser from the start.

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