Chapter 7 Tutorial: Building a Browser

Chapter 7 Tutorial: Building a Browser

In this tutorial, you can follow the steps to build a browser interface and learn many basics of developing an application. You can compile and run the code after each step to see the effects of the added code. The tutorial guides you through the following steps:

Step 1 - Basics
Build a simple version of the browser, with minimal functionality and no widgets.

Step 2 - Property Change Events
Add a status line to the browser and learn about property change events.

Step 3 - Navigation
Add a location bar and learn how to use the history manager to navigate.

Step 4 - Window Management and Visited Links
Introduce proper window management, visited links memory, and printing support.

Step 5 - DOM Events
Add tooltip functionality to the browser.

Step 6 - The DOM Tree
Print the DOM tree to a file after it has been fixed.

As you work through the tutorial, you can copy the source code from the src/ICEbrowserExamples/src/tutorial directory to avoid typing.

When compiling and running each step, make sure that at least ib6core.jar and ib6util.jar are on your classpath.

Note: For the code examples that are shown, changes between steps are highlighted with bold text.