Question

TWebBrowser Annoyance

Asked by: SheratonGroup

I am using a delphi app with a TWebBrowser to navigate to a page and automatically click some buttons in the website.  This part works fine.

The problem is that I have several TWebBrowser Controls, each on it's own TabSheet.  

There's a timer that moves through each tab and automatically loads/navigates to a web page on that tab.

The problem is that the entire app GUI freezes until the page is completely loaded.  I have tried placing application.processmessages in various places, eg, onDownloadbegin,  onProgressChange, etc.

I basically want to be loading multiple pages simultaneously in each tab.

What do I need to do to make the application continue to respond to mouse/keyboard events while pages are loading.  

I saw article http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Languages/Pascal/Delphi/Q_21622870.html  but no luck.

thanks!

sse

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2009-06-24 at 15:36:30ID24520049
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TWebBrowser WebBrowser1 IDHttp thread freeze Delphi

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Delphi Curiosities

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Answers

 

by: EddieShipmanPosted on 2009-06-25 at 10:39:06ID: 24713954

Since TWebbrowser is not very well behaved in threads, why not create a thread to download the HTML from the site using idHTTP and load it into the TWebbrowser control?

 

by: EddieShipmanPosted on 2009-06-25 at 10:39:39ID: 24713960

I don't have time to work on a solution right now but that can give you a start..

 

by: EddieShipmanPosted on 2009-08-17 at 14:18:21ID: 25118485

Can you post more specifics about what you are needing?

 

by: sse123Posted on 2009-08-19 at 14:04:29ID: 25137332

Basically I have several tabsheets.  On each of the tabsheets, I have a TWebBrowser.  I move sequentially through each of the tabsheets and send mouseclicks to specific areas of the page.

That's it.  

I just need it to be quicker.  I would prefer not to introduce threads.  Though I agree that it could certainly work.  If you think there's no other way, II would need an example.  

Thanks!





 

by: EddieShipmanPosted on 2009-08-19 at 19:50:33ID: 25139072

Well, it's rather hard to say, are you loading the browser on each page when the tab changes?
Or are you trying to load them all at one time?

You may be able to download the HTML using idHTTP and then assign it to the browser's document, that may be faster. But I need a little more info before I can figure out a solution.

 

by: SheratonGroupPosted on 2009-10-20 at 11:18:45ID: 25616906

Hi, Sorry for the delayed response, I didn't see your last reply.  

I am not loading the pages into the browsers at the same time, one at a time, but after I click on a link in one of the tabs the entire application freezes for a short time.  The implication is that I can't move onto the next tab for several seconds.

Let me know what other information you need.  I will be on the lookout for your response.  Again sorry for the delay.

sse

 

by: EddieShipmanPosted on 2009-10-20 at 11:59:30ID: 25617250

Can you explain a little further why you need a Webbrowser on each tab? If you are just clicking links, why not just download the initial HTML and parse it for those links and load them instead?
That would essentially take out one step and you could make that part of it threaded.

 

by: SheratonGroupPosted on 2009-10-20 at 12:50:31ID: 25617816

In this case the "links" are embedded in flash and java applets.  I don't have access to the address that the links are going to, and the place they go to could change anyway.  A mouseclick on a link is required.  Also, the automatic clicking part is working fine.  

You mentioned IDHttp and assigning the contents to the browser component.  I am not sure how to do this, but I  wonder if it would work anyway, since the my problem is that the program freezes when clicking on the link.  

Any other thoughts?





 

by: EddieShipmanPosted on 2009-10-20 at 14:45:26ID: 25618970

Being that these links are hosted in Flash and java applets, I don't think there is nothing anything
can do to speed them up.

The "freeze" is the flash or jvm loading the contents of the site.

 

by: SheratonGroupPosted on 2009-10-20 at 20:27:29ID: 25620624

Thank you for that, but the problem isn't the speed at which the page loads.  

Forget for a moment that there are multiple TWebBrowsers.  Let's just say there is one TWebBrowser with a page loaded within it.   The problem is that the entire app freezes for a few seconds after clicking on one of the links.   I can't even click on buttons within the Delphi App.  

 

by: EddieShipmanPosted on 2009-10-21 at 09:39:08ID: 25625686

Like I said, it is the Flash or JVM that is causing the problem.

 

by: SheratonGroupPosted on 2009-10-21 at 17:11:49ID: 25629738

Yes, I agree.  Question is how to make the delphi application itself not freeze.  I may have to bite the bullet and just thread the TWebBrowsers.

 

by: EddieShipmanPosted on 2009-10-21 at 18:53:17ID: 25630235

Even that won't help because Flash and the JVM will not be running in the secondary thread.

 

by: SheratonGroupPosted on 2009-10-26 at 18:24:03ID: 25668522

That's odd, why wouldn't flash and the JVM run in separate threads?  they do in my browsers.

 

by: EddieShipmanPosted on 2009-10-27 at 06:43:47ID: 25672288

But they still freeze the main thread, correct?

 

by: SheratonGroupPosted on 2009-10-29 at 23:21:59ID: 25700498

I never really noticed until today, playing yahoo chess (java applet), yes, it actually appears that when running slower applets the entire browser freezes.  I had no idea.  So you're saying that it can't be done, even with threads?

 

by: EddieShipmanPosted on 2009-10-30 at 10:40:42ID: 25705224

I wouldn't even know how to do that with the applets.

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