Hi James, > Thanks for the reply. I know I'm going to feel awkward about > making this suggestion since I can't code it up, but... I've > got a feeling that the only way to get DQSD working properly > under XP SP2 (even taking into account the available registry > hack) might be to wrap up (i.e. host) DQSD in a Windows executable.
Yes, I thought about that too, and it does have some appeal (unless you count the amount of work involved ;)). However, doing this would involve re-architecting (if you can use such a word for something like DQSD) the entire application. If I understand things correctly, DQSD currently pulls some tricks to embed IE into the task bar, which gives us ample opportunity for skinning using HTML and CSS, and to preserve that functionality, we'd have to do the same. Explorer.exe would still need to be excluded from local machine lockdown. Then there's the problem with DQSD needing to execute local content (where IExplore.exe needs to be excluded from local machine lockdown) in order to display the help window or pop up IE windows or launch searches (maximized.htm). We could potentially build another exe for that, but then it'd have to look and feel pretty much just like IE. As if that wasn't bad enough, we'd probably have to put a lot of work and energy into making sure our IE stand-in was secure and didn't open up the user's machine to anything that IE wouldn't. > Of course, MS don't seem to have gone so far as to give > sample code or suggested code architecture for hosting an > HTML-based application! I don't think it's that hard - everybody's doing it. The real challenge is having it executing in a different process, but rendering in the taskbar. I don't think you can do that. Oh well... I'll keep thinking about it, and see if I get any bright ideas. Cheers, Kim ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe visit: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dqsd-users [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=8601
