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Is it possible to get a web page, and do the WebView.GetText() to read the web page, WITHOUT showing any activity to the user?
I want to find out if a particular URL has a particular string in it. I'd like to use the .GetText() function for a WebView, without the user seeing any of the activity, and not causing any change in the UI.
Is this possible? If so, would you reply with code?
Thanks!
Kim
UPDATE: It seems that the WebView will not accept a .URL and show that URL until it has received Focus. I have tried the WebView.URL without showing it in a Tab, and it does not work. Once I DO show it in a tab then it DOES work.
So... the question is: How to I use a WebView that is never visible to the user, to do the .GetText() function of the WebView page?
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Joined: 5/27/2007
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Hi, You will need to create an off screen WebView through a ThreadRunner. See here for more details: https://www.essentialobjects.com/doc/webbrowser/start/webview_no_ui.aspxWhen you create a normal on screen WebView, it won't load anything until its window handle has been created (usually until you show it). Thanks!
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