ID	windowID	Window ID to host the web browser object.
STRING	URL	Local file or URL to be loaded in the web browser object. The HTML document should load the JavaScript library mioEngine.js.
INT	x,y	Position of the web browser object in the window.
INT	width,height	Size of the web browser object.

Return value

ID of the new web browser object, or NULL if object cannot be created.

Description

Creates and initialize a web browser object and establishes communication from JavaScript to MioScript.

Uses this function instead of browser.create when you need to communicate from JavaScript to MioScript.

The JavaScript library mioEngine.js contains all the code required to communicate with mioEngine.
This library must be loaded by the HTML document loaded in the web browser object as follow:

The function do the following process to initialize the web browser object:

Creates the web browser object with browser.create;

Sets the position;

Enable silent mode if debug is false (browser.ID.silent;

Registers the web browser to be scanned to catch function calls sent from JavaScript.

Opens the specified URL;

Check continuously if the user tries to move the window when the mouse is over the browser object. If the tag under the mouse has an attribute movable set to true, xonly, or yonly, the window can be moved.

When the attribute movable is set to:
true, the window can be moved.

xonly, the window can be moved on the horizontal axis.

yonly the window can be moved on the vertical axis.

When the page is loaded:

An new tag <miocmd> is add by mioEngine.js in the HTML document.

MioEngine scans continuously the tag <miocmd> for a command sent from JavaScript.

If one or several functions calls are found, the functions are called with the prefix public:.

You can declare a function accessible from JavaScript as follow:

function.public:myFunction()
...
function.end

And call it from JavaScript as follow:

sendToMio("myFunction")

You can also call it from MioScript as follow:

public.myFunction()

For more information: mioEngine.js

Note: This function is defined in the library klib.k and is linked automatically.

MioScript Sample Code

// Declaration of a public function in MioScript

function.public:myFunction()
...
function.end

// Calling the function in the HTML document

<SCRIPT src="mioEngine.js"></SCRIPT>

<SCRIPT>
sendToMio("myFunction");
</SCRIPT>

Functionbrowser.createEx

Function
browser.createEx