The IESample Browser

The IESample user interface has many of the features of Internet Explorer 6.0 for Windows, including forward and backward navigation, Favorites, and Search. The following illustration shows the default IESample window.

If you are creating a custom container application, it is strongly recommended that you use the IESample source code or IESimple for a full-screen application as your starting point, adding or removing features as needed. For example, you may want to add online help; IESample does not automatically include an online help system. If your platform includes the HTML help engine (SYSGEN_HELP), you can modify the IESample code to include a Help button on the menu bar to launch the HTML help system.

Alternatively, you can add a simple online help system by creating a Help button on the menu bar that opens an HTML file that contains user help information. The help page can contain a navigation button to close the help page, or the user can use the Back button on the browser itself to navigate to the original page.

You may also want to display the current security zone in the browser status bar. For information about adding the URL security zone status to IESample, see Displaying the Current Security Zone.

For information about default registry settings for IESample, see IESample Registry Settings.

See Also

Creating an Internet Browser

Last updated on Wednesday, April 13, 2005

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