@Dr. Jellyfingers: Yes it should possible to draw Internet Explorer on a panel or entity in 3DGS. It might be kind of scary though if the 3DGS forum was running around shooting at you in a FPS.

@DocJoe: Well in Delphi you would just drop the TWebBrowser ActiveX control on your form. Then you create the form via a 3DGS plugin DLL and paint the form to your DirectX texture (panel or entity). I'm not sure if the user would be able to send clicks to the current web page (I would have to test it) but keyboard navigation is definately possible.

You can see an example of this here. This is someone elses site and uses GLScene (OpenGL) but the same thing is possible with 3DGS.

Thanks Noah, very interesting!

but is there a DLL out there that will simply let me launch internet explorer at a specific webpage. I don't need to run the web "in game." I just want an easy way for people to click and get to the registration site.

Pete

Just launching a web page in its own window is easy.

If C-Script has an execute function that can execute win32 commands, I can't look it up as I am away from my dev machine, then you could have it execute the following line and the browser should launch.

ShellExecute(NULL, _T("open"), "http://www.abc.com", NULL, NULL, SW_SHOW);

If it can not do that then let me know and I can put a dll together to do this for you.

Maybe first look for the default browser. For instance by Noah's registry DLL.

ah- there is an a command, "exec" that will let me launch the outside command. That sounds like a good idea checking the registry for default browser, so I will have to look into how that is done. Has anyone done it before?

Thanks for the help, guys.
Pete

I made my own DLL and I searched the default browser in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT - htmlfile\\DefaultIcon. Then use exec(path_of_default_browser_exe, "www.my_homepage.com") or execute (with the whole exe file path and homepage adress in one string).

On my PC it runs without problems, but I think it's not the absolute correct path you have to search! So if there's anybody who can give the correct way, will get a big kiss (not from me, but from anybody of your wish, hehehehe)!

PS: For the kiss I have to look what I can do... (depending on your wish!!!).