ANN: Easy Edge (Chromium) ver 1.02 released!

Fixed:

  • Starting from ver.1.01 WebView2Loader.dll location is \runtimes\win-x86\native folder instead of \x86.

New:

  • InitErrorReason() method returns an error reason if the Init method fails due to runtime issue.

Updated DEMO: new Animated Menu example procedure.

Easy Edge (Chromium) is a Clarion wrapper around the Microsoft Edge WebView2 control that enables you to embed web technologies (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) in your Clarion applications easily. The WebView2 control uses Microsoft Edge (Chromium) as the rendering engine to display the web content in native applications. With WebView2, you may embed web code in different parts of your native application, or build the entire native application within a single WebView.

Key features:

  • Full UNICODE support
  • Execute javascript and get a result
  • CKEditor v4 HTML editor template support
  • File system navigation
  • An access to Chrome DevTools Protocol api (DevTools console)
  • Deploying your application - Besides an usual exe, dll etc files you should ship just 4 small DLLs (330Kb) with your end-user application

Easy Edge (Chromium) is implemented as a set of classes available as full source code, template and .NET assemblies. You can freely distribute your application using our DLLs without any additional costs. After your purchase no additional fees are required for distribution.

For use Easy Edge (Chromium) following is needed:

  • Clarion C6.3 or newer, ABC or Legacy.
  • NET: v4.6.2 or newer

You are able to run Easy Edge (Chromium) applications on the following versions of Windows:

  • Windows 10
  • Windows 8.1
  • Windows 7 **
  • Windows Server 2019
  • Windows Server 2016
  • Windows Server 2012
  • Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 **

** WebView2 support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 has the same support cycle as Microsoft Edge. For more information, navigate to Microsoft Edge supported Operating Systems.

More info and DEMO at
http://www.ingasoftplus.com/ProductDetail.php?ProductID=304

Cost just $175.

Discounted price for EasyHTML clients!!

After your purchase no additional fees are required for distribution.

By the way, “starting on April 1, 2021, WebView2 Runtime will be installed on devices running Windows and that have Version 2101 or later of Microsoft 365 Apps installed.”

WebView2 is underlying Chromium engine used by Easy Edge.

Is this product suitable for handcoded apps?

Yes it is, no problem.

The evergreen WebView2 runtime is also included with Windows 11