How to suppress address and toolbar

baburman · August 16th, 2005, 07:27 AM

Hi guys,

I am working in ASP.NET. I wanna suppress address and toolbar of the browser. Of coures this can be achieved by using window.open(...) and providing appropriate parameters to it, but i need it for the EXISTING (alread rendered) page which has to be done either thru server side code or client-side using javascript where the code could run on onload even of BODY. Anybody could through light on it?

thanks

BaburMan

BaburMan

Imar · August 16th, 2005, 02:28 PM

AFAIK, this cannot be done. You could open a new window and then close the original one.
Personally, I am glad this isn't possible. I really like to see the address and status bars so I can see what's going on.

Can you please not cross-post your messages? They will be read anyway...

Imar
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Everyone is unique, except for me.

baburman · August 18th, 2005, 04:37 AM

Well, this is disappointing

I have placed it in a few forums and many of them proposed the same solution as yours which i already know. Anyways thanks for that. In fact it will take more time since our page will be rendered twice this way; first in the normal window and then using js, may be in onolad event of Body, in a new window. In fact every page of the app has this requirement, so now the user will have to wait for a long time for every page which is cumbersome.

BaburMan

interrupt · August 18th, 2005, 05:03 AM

Couldn't you use a HTA instead?

Joe

joefawcett · August 18th, 2005, 09:31 AM

It can be done for an intranet where the security settings allow unsafe ActiveX to be initialised, it doesn't have to allow downloads. The machines need to be running Windows 2000 or greater:

Code:

<html>
<head>
<title>Get Browser</title>
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 7.1">
<meta name="vs_targetSchema" content="http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/ie5">
<script type="text/javascript">
/********************************************************************************************************\ 
 * Author Joe Fawcett +44 (0)770 476 089 
* 
 * Date created 2001-09-04 
* 
 * Copyright Joe Fawcett 2001 
* 
 * Version 1.0 
* 
 * You are free to use this script in an unmodified form without further 
permission.                      * 
 * This includes this comment box. Don't blame me if it goes wrong. 
* 
 * 1) Active Desktop installed, i.e. late versions of shell32.dll etc. 
plenty of info about this on web.  * 
 * 2) Security allows creation of objects and scripting etc. Therefore only 
really useful on an intranet. * 
 * 3) Er.. I hope that's it. 
* 
 * Description: The CurrentBrowser object returns a IWebBrowser2 interface 
to the running instance of IE. * 
 * This can be used to modify the current window e.g. to remove toolbars, 
close window etc.               * 
 * Returns null if unable to use Shell.Application (See above) or not found 
(Script not in browser).      * 
 * Needs to be run within a web page. 
* 
 * See below for more. 
* 


\********************************************************************************************************/ 

 var OLECMDID_PRINTPREVIEW = 7;
 
 function CurrentBrowser() 
 { 
   this.getInstance = getInstance; 


   function getInstance() 
   { 
     var oWin = null; 
     try 
     { 
       var oShellApp = new ActiveXObject("Shell.Application"); 
       colWins = oShellApp.Windows(); 
       for (var i = 0; i < colWins.Count; i++) 
       { 
         oWin = colWins(i); 
         if (oWin.document.parentWindow === self) 
         { 
           oIE = oWin; 
           return oIE; 
         } 
       } 
     } 
     catch(e) 
     { 
       alert(e.message); 
     } 
     return null; 
   } 
 } 


 //From within a web page 
 /**/
 
 function hideWindow(Seconds)
 {
   var oIE = new CurrentBrowser().getInstance(); 
   if (oIE) 
   {
     if (oIE.visible)
     {
       oIE.visible = false
       setTimeout(hideWindow, Seconds * 1000);
     }
     else
     {
       oIE.visible = true;
     }

   }   
 }
 
 function toggleToolBar() 
 { 
   var oIE = new CurrentBrowser().getInstance(); 
   if (oIE) 
   { 
     oIE.ToolBar = (!oIE.ToolBar); 
   }
   else
   {
     alert("IE not found.");
   }
   return; 
 } 

 function toggleMenuBar() 
 { 
   var oIE = new CurrentBrowser().getInstance(); 
   if (oIE) 
   { 
     oIE.MenuBar = (!oIE.MenuBar); 
   }
   else
   {
     alert("IE not found.");
   }
   return; 
 } 

 function makeResizable(Resizable)
 {
   var oIE = new CurrentBrowser().getInstance(); 
   if (oIE) 
   { 
     oIE.Resizable = Resizable; 
     return true; 
   }
   return false;   
 }
 
 function setData(DataName, DataValue) 
 { 
   var oIE = new CurrentBrowser().getInstance(); 
   if (oIE) 
   { 
     oIE.PutProperty(DataName, DataValue); 
     return true; 
   }
   return false; 
 } 


 function getData(DataName) 
 { 
   var oIE = new CurrentBrowser().getInstance(); 
   if (oIE) 
   { 
     return oIE.GetProperty(DataName); 
   }
   return null; 
 } 

 function showData(DataName)
 {
   alert(getData(DataName));
 }

 function printPreview()
 {
   var oIE = new CurrentBrowser().getInstance(); 
   if (oIE) 
   { 
     oIE.ExecWB(OLECMDID_PRINTPREVIEW, 0); 
   }
 }

</script>
</head>
<body>
<input type="button" value="Hide Window" onclick="hideWindow(txtSeconds.value);">&nbsp;for&nbsp;
<input type="text" id="txtSeconds" size="2" maxlength="2" value="5">&nbsp;seconds<br><br>
<input type="button" value="Toggle ToolBar" onclick="toggleToolBar();"><br><br>
<input type="button" value="Toggle MenuBar" onclick="toggleMenuBar();"><br><br>
<input type="button" value="Set Data" onclick="setData('data', txtData.value);">&nbsp;
<input type="text" id="txtData" size="20" value="test"><br><br>
<input type="button" value="Show Data" onclick="showData('data');"><br><br>
<label for="chkResizable">Resizable?</label><input type="checkbox" checked id="chkResizable" onclick="makeResizable(this.checked);"><br><br>
<input type="button" value="Print Preview" onclick="printPreview();"><br><br>
</body>
</html>

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)