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Web Browser

Introduction

The Web Browser module loads and renders HTML and web page content within Proto applications. Content can loaded dynamically from a URL, or provided directly as HTML-formatted text.

Viewer Control:

Keyboard Shortcuts
  • F5 — Refresh the displayed page.
  • ALT+ — Navigate back in the browser history.
  • ALT+ — Navigate forward in the browser history.
  • ESC — Stop loading the page.
  • CTRL+F — Open a Find dialog to search within the displayed web page.
  • Hold down SHIFT and click a link — Open the link target in Internet Explorer instead of inside Proto.

Property Panel:

URL
The location from which to load and display web page content.
HTML
The HTML content to render and display.
Show Border
Whether or not to show a border around the Viewer control.

Input Menu:

Set URL

Set the location from which to load and display web page content.

Accepted Datatypes:
Text
Set HTML

Set the HTML content to render and display.

Accepted Datatypes:
Text

Output Menu:

Gets the URL of the link clicked by the user in the browser control.

Output Datatype:
Text