92 replies to this topic

[rejected]

This is a simple and specific tutorial on how to make a basic web browser in Visual Basic 6.

Steps 1-3
Create a new project, and then go to "Project" on the menu.
Click components as shown in the following image.

Find the component "Microsoft Internet Controls," check it, and click "Apply" and then "Close."

Click the icon that was just added in the tools window, and draw a large sized window with it. This is going to be where you view webpages through your browser, so don't make it small, but leave room for buttons and other accessories.

Steps 4-6
Make a textbox, this will be your URL bar where you type in the address of the website you want to see.

Make four command buttons, these are going to be your Go, Back, Forward, and Refresh buttons, change the captions accordingly, and name each of them Cmdgo, Cmdback, CmdForward, and CmdRefresh.

Now, here's the coding part. This is all it takes to make your webbrowser working.

Private Sub cmdback_Click()
WebBrowser1.GoBack
End Sub

Makes the back button go backwards, pretty much self explanatory.

Private Sub Cmdforward_Click()
WebBrowser1.GoForward
End Sub

Same concept, except this time the webbrowser goes forward.

Private Sub cmdgo_Click()
WebBrowser1.Navigate (Text1.Text)
End Sub

Makes your webbrowser go to the URL in your text box.

Private Sub cmdrefresh_Click()
WebBrowser1.Refresh
End Sub

Makes your web browser refresh.

Private Sub Form_Load()
WebBrowser1.Navigate ("http://thyelite.com")
End Sub

The URL shows your homepage, change it to http://google.com or whatever your usual homepage you would like to be.

Private Sub WebBrowser1_StatusTextChange(ByVal Text As String)
Text1.Text = (WebBrowser1.LocationURL)
Form1.Caption = (WebBrowser1.LocationName)
End Sub

This changes the text box's text into what URL that you're currently at, and the next line makes the caption of your form into the header of the URL.

There you are, a tutorial on how to make a browser, thanks for your time .

[SqlByte]

yeah... i made that or something similar long ago... but it was slow as hell... i was loading google for an half an hour
That stuff could be used for spoofing your browser id...
I remember ther where a way to build a web browser in php... il post it if ifind it.

[Eikon]

Hmm...Interesting stuff. I'll have to try this out when I get back to school from the holiday break, as I don't have VB6 on this computer.

[Inspiron]

It's also possible to do it with VB.NET. The internet browser created with Visual Studio actually takes the properties and settings configured for the Internet Explorer (IE) browser on your computer.

So basically, in other words, you have created a customised IE rather than your own browser.

[wild20]

Awesome, but I would worry about it messing with the integrity of your security. The main problem I also see with this is the fact that it could also make it run slower than usual. Is there a way to be able to switch between using the regular browser and the one you create? Overall it IS a good idea though and I think this is a great post. Thanks for the info and if I ever get the program I will try it.

[snlildude87]

Yeah, a web browser needs a LOT more code than that. What you're doing, like Inspiron said, is making your very own custom Internet Explorer. It's like taking the source code of Firefox and modifying it to your likings...except less complicated.

[Compute]

YAYA I'v been looking everywhere for this. So is firefox made in visual basic lol. I though it.

Great tutorial. Really helped! thanks.

[Inspiron]

Firefox is not created with Visual Basic however. Rather it's impossible to believe that Firefox is created with Visual Basic because Microsoft owns Visual Basic and this language isn't free. So if Firefox is created with a paid programming language, then why it would be distributed free?

I'm not sure but I have a feeling that Firefox is created with C++ language..

[rejected]

FireFox was created in C++, you can download the tarballs since it's an open source project..

[fraudulentpeanut]

This is a very interesting topic. There are so many web browsers out there and using VB as said in previous posts is just making a customized internet explorer. It actually will not run if you do not have internet explorer installed on your machine. Now taking and making a browser from the firefox sources would be pretty sweet. However, firefox is still the number one browser and is definately a lot faster than IE.