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I am using GeckoFX16 and xulrunner-16.0.2.en-US.win32 in my project. The thing is, I want to call a C# method in javascript.
I am curious, is there a way to do this?
Just like below:
C# part:
private GeckoWebBrowser weBrowser;
public browser()
{
InitializeComponent();
Gecko.Xpcom.Initialize("xulrunner");
weBrowser = new GeckoWebBrowser();
weBrowser.Parent = this;
weBrowser.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
weBrowser.Navigate("test.html");
}
public string loadData(){
//load data from local file.
return str;
}
javascript part:
<script type='text/javascript'>
var data = window.loadData();
alert(data);
</script>
I am new in this area, I’ll appreciate if it is possible!
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You can use a MessageEvent to invoke code in c#, but as far as I know you can't then return a string like you're wanting to. One of the unit tests demonstrates how to invoke the c# code:
[Test]
public void AddEventListener_JScriptFiresEvent_ListenerIsCalledWithMessage()
{
string payload = null;
browser.AddMessageEventListener("callMe", ((string p) => payload = p));
browser.LoadHtml(
@"<!DOCTYPE html>
<html><head>
<script type='text/javascript'>
window.onload= function() {
event = document.createEvent('MessageEvent');
var origin = window.location.protocol + '//' + window.location.host;
event.initMessageEvent ('callMe', true, true, 'some data', origin, 1234, window, null);
document.dispatchEvent (event);
}
</script>
</head><body></body></html>");
browser.NavigateFinishedNotifier.BlockUntilNavigationFinished();
Assert.AreEqual("some data", payload);
}
I know it's awkward, but you could then use a c#-->javascript call to get data back to javascript-land. See This Question for how to do that. So your javascript would first send this message to c# land, then it would get a callback with the string value you need.
Hope that helps.
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Important update:
Currently code with event.initMessageEvent does not work because this construction has been replaced on
var event = new MessageEvent('yourEventName', { 'view': window, 'bubbles': false, 'cancelable': false, 'data': 'some data' });
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