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Hi there,

I KNOW this is covered in the forum. Read on.

I'm trying to do something really simple: I have an HTML file (linked to an external CSS file), local on my hard drive.

I want to put it in a GUI window on my desktop. A widget, so to speak.

I've been allllll over the forum, including the QHTM sample (does not support CSS), the complex COM examples, the 14-page thread about integrating IExplore, everything. I went to the wiki, downloaded the code, looked at the samples.

And yet, I was unable to find _one_ single simple example, just showing how to do this elementary task of taking an HTML file from the disk and displaying it. All of the examples either don't work, or are needlessly complex and flashy, and really poorly commented.

I'm not exactly new to AHK, but this one has me totally frustrated.

Help?

Simple example, straight from the wiki. This is the simplest it will get.

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And again, this is a bad example for what I need.

1) It does not state what library files are included. There are like 4 different versions floating around -- what is included?

2) The URL is _external_ -- not a local file.

Can you please make it complete? That's exactly the reason I wrote this topic, and as I mentioned, I have already seen this example.

If you've seen this example then try doing a little searching... Embed an Internet Explorer control in your AHK Gui via COM. All you do for URL's is copy/paste from your address bar in your browser... As I said, this is the simplest example you will find for this kind of thing, if you can't figure it out just use your browser.

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after watching the frustration from the poster for a couple days it occured to me you dont understand what a url is

url can be http://....
url can be about:blank
url can be 192.168.15.1
url can be c:\myApp Folder\some.html



so in Slanters post


Internet
About url schema
IP address
Local File URL

the problem as i see it is that your attempting to build a rocket with a hi school biology education

unfortunately many come to ahk thinking that not understanding existing standards for the applications is ok. In alot of basic autohotkey commands its not.

But if your going to do something relativley advanced then you must not only understand AHK better but also the use of google

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Valid point, but easy to identify. Just open the file and check out if it includes the appropriate function, in this case: IE_LoadURL()

Don't forget to #Include that function/file.

3? obviously not the real BoBo (well maybe it is)

Yeah, I've qualified from ² to ³

First, thanks for your help.

Second, no thanks for the attitude. I went and looked for the stuff you posted on the Scripts forum so far. Your contribution to the community seems to consist of two libraries. Thanks for those, too.

I have been working with AHK for years now (I actually predate you on this forum by about two years), and had you gone and looked at the forum (forum search is a great idea, too) you would have seen my scripts (as in actual, complete applications) outnumber yours by quite a few.

Third, there is more than one way to specify a local URL, such as file:// etc.

Good day.

which also works
It really doesnt matter how long you have blah blah blah
No im not trying to be an A$$ I know it seems that way but im not
but It is and was apparent by your question that you clearly did not understand what a URL is or if you did that you were pretending quite obnoxiously not to
I have Never claimed to be an expert on anything except ignorance
I am glad you looked thru the forum but again you cant limit your research to AHK you have to look further like MSDN and google and code guru etc. If your going to use a particular application (such as IE) it helps greatly to actually look into its archetecture as well. Try understand that applications abilities.
I wont get into a pissing match with you or any one else about who develops full applications and who has more of what. FYI facts are the work I do just simply cant be made public. Second every thing I do do is based on things I learned from ahklerner Sean Lexikos and a few others but I walked in the door with an extensive knowledge and experience of web application development. I can see your join date also and read all 32 of your posts as well I never called you an idiot I just expounded the simple minded nature of your confusion.
That said I am happy that even with my sarcasm which knows no end that i gave you the answer you were looking for
Feel free to ask anything else and ill answer but I wont promise to be cheerful

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