SandBrowser, a basic Web Browsing Application!

I did NOT write the html parsing, it was all included with my download of MVB2008 EE.

This is for my learning purposes only. It's not really meant to be a functional browser, although you could if you wanted to. Please do not post something like this:

"Oh, that sucks, so easy, could do it in five minutes"

That's not the point of this - I'm trying to learn >.<. Had a couple of those at RSBot.

Features:

Forward and Back.
Home page.
Search engines work (pressing enter instead of search won't fuck it up).
The url bar now displays the URL of the current page, instead of what you typed, and will change if you click a link.
Custom buttons .
Favorites!

Bugs:

Full screen youtube and the like don't accept the escape key.

Source:

Form One (the actual browser):

Code:

Public Class Form1
    Dim Homepage As Uri
    Private Sub Form1_FormClosing(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.FormClosingEventArgs) Handles Me.FormClosing
        My.Settings.F2 = False
        My.Settings.F3 = False
    End Sub
    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        Homepage = My.Settings.Homepage
        My.Settings.F2 = False
        My.Settings.F3 = False
        If Not Homepage = Nothing Then
            WebBrowser1.Navigate(Homepage)
            If Not My.Settings.HPURL = Nothing Then
                TextBox1.Text = My.Settings.HPURL.ToString
            End If
        Else
            WebBrowser1.Navigate("www.google.com")
            TextBox1.Text = "www.google.com".ToString
        End If
        Me.Text = "SandBrowser - " & WebBrowser1.DocumentTitle
        TextBox1.AcceptsReturn = True
        If Not (My.Settings.URL.Count = Nothing) Then
            For i = 1 To (My.Settings.URL.Count - 1)
                tlsFaves.DropDownItems.Add(My.Settings.URL.Item(i), Nothing, AddressOf Clicked)
            Next
        End If
    End Sub

    Private Sub WebBrowser1_DocumentCompleted(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventArgs) Handles WebBrowser1.DocumentCompleted
        Me.Text = "SandBrowser - " & WebBrowser1.DocumentTitle
        TextBox1.Text = WebBrowser1.Url.ToString
    End Sub

    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        WebBrowser1.Navigate(TextBox1.Text)
    End Sub
    Private Sub Back_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Back.Click
        If WebBrowser1.CanGoBack Then
            WebBrowser1.GoBack()
        End If
    End Sub
    Private Sub Forward_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Back.Click
        If WebBrowser1.CanGoForward Then
            WebBrowser1.GoForward()
        End If
    End Sub

    Private Sub GoToYourHomepageToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles GoToYourHomepageToolStripMenuItem.Click
        If Not My.Settings.Homepage = Nothing Then
            WebBrowser1.Navigate(My.Settings.Homepage)
        Else
            WebBrowser1.GoHome()
        End If
    End Sub

    Private Sub UseCurrentPageToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles UseCurrentPageToolStripMenuItem.Click
        Homepage = WebBrowser1.Url
        My.Settings.Homepage = Homepage
        My.Settings.HPURL = WebBrowser1.Url
    End Sub

    Private Sub Home_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Home.Click
        GoToYourHomepageToolStripMenuItem.PerformClick()
    End Sub

    Private Sub Forward_Click_1(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Forward.Click
        If WebBrowser1.CanGoForward Then
            WebBrowser1.GoForward()
        End If
    End Sub

    Private Sub TextBox1_KeyPress(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArgs) Handles TextBox1.KeyPress
        If Not TextBox1.Text = "" Then
            If e.KeyChar = Chr(13) Then
                Button1.PerformClick()
            End If
        End If
    End Sub

    Private Sub UseACustomPageToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles UseACustomPageToolStripMenuItem.Click
        Dim SecondForm As New Form2
        If My.Settings.F2 Then
            SecondForm.Focus()
        Else
            SecondForm.Show()
            My.Settings.F2 = True
        End If
    End Sub

    Private Sub ViewCreditsToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ViewCreditsToolStripMenuItem.Click
        Dim ThirdForm As New Credits
        If My.Settings.F3 Then
            ThirdForm.Focus()
        Else
            ThirdForm.Show()
            My.Settings.F3 = True
        End If
    End Sub


    Sub Clicked(ByVal site As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
        WebBrowser1.Navigate(site.ToString)
        TextBox1.Text = site.ToString
    End Sub

    Private Sub BookmarkThisPageToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles BookmarkThisPageToolStripMenuItem.Click
        tlsFaves.DropDownItems.Add(WebBrowser1.Url.ToString, Nothing, AddressOf Clicked)
        My.Settings.URL.Add(WebBrowser1.Url.ToString)
    End Sub
End Class

Form two (Custom home page set up):

Code:

Public Class Form2
    Private Sub F2ChangeHP_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles F2ChangeHP.Click
        If InStr(HPURL.Text, "http://") = 0 Then
            If InStr(HPURL.Text, "www.") = 0 Then
                HPURL.Text = "http://www." & HPURL.Text
            Else
                HPURL.Text = "http://" & HPURL.Text
            End If
        End If
        Dim HP As New Uri(HPURL.Text)
            If HPURL.Text <> "" Then
                My.Settings.Homepage = HP
                My.Settings.HPURL = HP
                HPURL.Text = ""
                Me.Hide()
            End If
    End Sub
End Class

Form three (credits):

Code:

Public Class Form3

    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        Me.Hide()
    End Sub
End Class

Post any opinions, ideas, help, whatever you think I could do to improve it. Just starting to learn Visual Basic, so yea .

Download link, file is to big to attach:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0P0YNUCF

~Sandstorm

 

Can you post some pictures? I want to see your designing

 

You could always just download it, but alright...

~Sandstorm

 

Added custom buttons and a background. Don't feel like screwing with pictures again, if someone would scan it, you guys'll know it's safe to download and look at it on your own?

~Sandstorm

 

After four or five hours of pondering, testing, fixing, testing some more, and tweaking bugs, I introduce to you:

Favorites! As yet they can't be removed, but this is being worked on.

~Sandstorm

 

Err... All favourites are is a list. Hours, you say?

 

Navigating to them on clicking them, as well as saving and loading them was hard. This is essentially my first visual basic project, I'm learning everything as I go.

~Sandstorm

 

Well, you could store favorites as an array in either the My namespace settings or by saving them to a file/registry. Also, for the navigation part, just make 2 lists, one that is invisible (or simply another array) which stores the URLs, then another which stores the Favorite names. Then, all you need to do is deal with indexes of the array and the list so that the URL corresponds to the selected title in the favorites list, then once it's clicked, navigate to the selected item in the URL array. Hope that helped

 

They already work, just need to add one last thing to it.

During runtime I create a dropdown list button, and a sub button to that. If the sub button is clicked, I need to be able to know what the dropdown list button is. Any ideas?

~Sandstorm