[Jarvis101]

Could anyone please tell me if it's possible to display a control on a blackberry by passing html content to it rather than passing it a specific url. i.e. pass html formatted text as a paramter for it to be displayed.

Thanks

[CPO]

You can do this by creating your own implementation of the HttpConnection interface and returning an instance of that class whenever your RenderingApplication instance's getResource() method is called. The implementation of HttpConnection would have to have a bunch of dummy implementation methods to go along with a getResponseCode() method that always returns 200, getEncoding() + getLength() + getType() methods to describe the properties of the HTML content, and openDataOutputStream() openOutputStream() methods that would return streams that can access your HTML content (e.g. ByteArrayOutputStream)

[Skipper_Joe]

there is another way:

How To - Invoke the browser with raw HTML

I tried it myself. it works on 4.1, but doesn't work for 4.0.2

[CPO]

Correction to my previous post: I meant to say InputStreams rather than OutputStreams

If you are trying to display a single HTML page that contains no HTML or image links then the method mentioned by Skipper_Joe is definitely simpler.

[Jarvis101]

Thanks that worked. Simplified the code a bit as didn't need to make connection:

public void showHTML(String p_strHTML) 
    {
        try 
        {
            MyThread thread = new MyThread(p_strHTML);
            thread.start(); 
            
        } 
        catch(Exception e) 
        {
        }
    }
    
     private static class MyThread extends Thread
    {
        String m_strHTML;
        
        public MyThread(String p_strHTML)
        {
            m_strHTML=p_strHTML;
            
        }
        
        public void run()
        {
            try 
            {
                
                ByteArrayOutputStream output = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
                Base64OutputStream boutput = new Base64OutputStream( output );
                
                output.write( "data:text/html;base64,".getBytes() );
                boutput.write( m_strHTML.getBytes() );
                boutput.flush();
                boutput.close();
                output.flush();
                output.close();
                
                BrowserSession bSession = Browser.getDefaultSession();
                bSession.displayPage( output.toString() );
                
              
            }
            catch( Exception e ) 
            {
                System.out.println( "Exception: " + e );
            }
        }
    }

I did try to take it one stage further and display within a control using BrowserContentBaseImpl. But didn't have much success.

[vikdor]

could you please help me understand how to implement the openInputStream/openDataInputStream methods?

thanks.

[vikdor]

ignore my previous reply. Subclassing the InputStream and overriding the read() method is the way.

[Mark Rejhon]

I'm trying to get HTML with full images to load in a BrowserField without a network connection.

Custom implementation of HttpConnection --
Does this technique provide a way to successfully load images from internal BlackBerry resources? (i.e. generated from the application, or as part of the application's database). How can this be adapted to function with images?

[Mark Rejhon]

Regarding net.rim.device.api.browser.field.*

Is there a way to programmatically execute a click in a BrowserField? I'd like to make both the Enter key and a single click on the trackwheel/trackball (not bringing up a menu) to execute a click on the current link in the html document loaded in the browser field.

Note: CPO's suggestion works. I've successfully managed to get my software to load HTML and images from my .jar/.cod without a network connection, basically emulation of file:// URL's with browserfield using custom dummy implementation of HttpConnection and using getClass().getResourceAsStream() within openInputStream. Embedded Mobile JavaScript .js includes and mobile CSS .css includes working too.

[Filinozavr]

Succeeded with this too. But got the same question:
"s there a way to programmatically execute a click in a BrowserField?"

[arun.raai]

HI all,

I am trying same thing i.e. I have a String which contains HTML content(with HTML tags).

I would like to display the content to blackberry screen through some controls/Fields.

I have looked the many forums but didn't get proper solution for this.

It would be good if some one has solution to this requirement and provide it here.

Thanks in advance.

arun.