Web Browser

The WEB-BROWSER control is used in conjunction with Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 and later. It provides the view you see in the main window of Microsoft Internet Explorer, and it provides the functionality for displaying Web pages containing HTML, scripting, and ActiveX control and Java applet content. This control also hosts Component Object Model (COM) document objects, supports COM hyperlinks, and allows users to view Windows objects such as folders and files. Because it is an ActiveX control, it can be used in a COM control container application.

For more information about the usage of the Web browser control, refer to Appendix B of A Programmer's Guide to the Internet. That document is included on your ACUCOBOL-GT distribution media and installed in the same directory as the ACUCOBOL-GT manual set.

The ACUCOBOL-GT runtime uses ActiveX (COM control) containment to offer the facilities of Microsoft's Web browser control to COBOL programs. The Web browser control is used just like any other ACUCOBOL-GT control. To create a Web browser control identified by the name BROWSER-1 and using the Working-Storage item URL-1 as its value, for example, you would add the following lines to a screen section item:

03  BROWSER-1 WEB-BROWSER VALUE URL-1 
    COLUMN 5, LINE 5, SIZE 60, LINES 20.

or add the following procedure division code:

DISPLAY WEB-BROWSER VALUE URL-1
   COLUMN 5, LINE 5, SIZE 60, LINES 20
   HANDLE IN BROWSER-1.