Error on LoadURL with TChromium

Question

I found the brilliant Delphi Chromium project for embedding Chrome in a Delphi form. It works well in Delphi7 after a bit of hacking and I can get the demo app running.

Answer 1

Had similar problems and after quite a few hours located the problem:

1. If TChromium is on the main form of the application then ok.

2. If TChromium is not on main form (or on a frame) then:

   1. Open cef.inc and remove the dot to define:

      {.$DEFINE CEF_MULTI_THREADED_MESSAGE_LOOP} 
      

   2. Remove DefaultURL value so it is an empty string.

I googled CEF_MULTI_THREADED_MESSAGE_LOOP but it didn't come up with much at all.

Lastly, had resizing/refreshing problems (even with alignment set to alClient). Short term fix is within
crmLoadEnd event do something like:

     if crm.Height < panclient.Height then
        crm.Height := panclient.Height;

Answer 2

Had this problem as well. It seems the MainFrame is first created when the frame/window gets visible. But there is an easy way around it. Just call .Load('about:blank') directly on your TChromium object. This will initialize the missing frame earlier.

Answer 3

The problem is that mainframe only loads after the page has loaded.

For one thing, you need to do:

if Assigned(Chromium2.Browser.MainFrame)
    then  Chromium2.Browser.MainFrame...

However, that is not the preferred way to navigate, but instead you should do:

Chromium1.Load( theUrl );

If you still want to use MainFrame, do it in OnLoadEnd event.

Answer 4

Do you have alll the required DLL in the folder where your application is built?

You need: libcef.dll, icudt.dll, ...

Check this thread on their support group.

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When you build/run the demos, they are built in this subfolder (*DCC_ExeOutput*): DCEF\bin\ which is why it works with them...

Answer 5

I still haven't found a resolution but I found the following work around

procedure TForm1.lblWebsiteClick(Sender: TObject);
var MainFrame : ICefFrame;
begin
  MainFrame := Chromium2.Browser.GetMainFrame;
  MainFrame.LoadUrl('http://www.cookingisfun.ie');
end;