I am stumped on this one!

I have my own CHtmlView derived class and I recently added support for Find. I did it like this:

void CChristianLifeMinistryEditorDlg::OnEditFind()
{
    m_pHtmlPreview->ExecWB(OLECMDID_FIND, OLECMDEXECOPT_PROMPTUSER, nullptr, nullptr);
}

Under the hood the code then does the following:

HRESULT CChristianLifeMinistryHtmlView::ExecWB(OLECMDID cmdID, OLECMDEXECOPT cmdexecopt, VARIANT *pvaIn, VARIANT *pvaOut)
{
    ASSERT(m_pBrowserApp != nullptr);

    const auto hr = m_pBrowserApp->ExecWB(cmdID, cmdexecopt, pvaIn, pvaOut);
    return hr;
}

It works OK. But only if I render my pages this way in the browser control:

if (m_pHtmlPreview != nullptr)
{
    CString strURL = strPreviewXML;
    if (iBookmarkId != -1)
        strURL.Format(_T("%s#week%d"), (LPCTSTR)strPreviewXML, iBookmarkId);

    m_pHtmlPreview->Navigate2(strPreviewXML, 0, nullptr);
    //m_pHtmlPreview->Navigate2(strURL, 0, nullptr);
}

In short, if I navigate to the XML file itself then the finding works. But if I try to navigate to the same XMl file, but with my anchor, whilst it displays in the right place in the browser control, the Find feature then will not function:

The moment I change it back to navigating to:

m_pHtmlPreview->Navigate2(strPreviewXML, 0, nullptr);

Then the Find tool is guarenteed to work. But then this means I can no longer jump to the right part of the transformed HTML output. I tried doing:

m_pHtmlPreview->Navigate2(strPreviewXML, 0, nullptr);
m_pHtmlPreview->Navigate2(strURL, 0, nullptr);

I thought that if I navigated first to the page and then to the page with the anchor, that Find would work. But no joy. Can anything be done?

CodePudding user response：

It seems that the mechanics of the Find feature does not like it when you try to navigate to the XML file which has a bookmark in the URL.

I already had code to transform the XML to a HTMl so I added that in as a secondary step:

if (m_pHtmlPreview != nullptr)
{
    CString strURL = strPreviewXML;
    //if (iBookmarkId != -1)
    //  strURL.Format(_T("%s#week%d"), (LPCTSTR)strPreviewXML, iBookmarkId);

    //m_pHtmlPreview->Navigate2(strPreviewXML, 0, nullptr);
    CString strFileXSLPath = theApp.GetWorkingPath()   strFileXSL;
    if (theApp.MSAToolsInterface().TransformXMLToHTML(strFileXSLPath, strPreviewXML, m_strPreviewHTML))
    {
        strURL = m_strPreviewHTML;
        if(iBookmarkId != -1)
            strURL.Format(_T("%s#week%d"), (LPCTSTR)m_strPreviewHTML, iBookmarkId);

    }
    m_pHtmlPreview->Navigate2(strURL, 0, nullptr);
}

I find that:

1. The anchors still function correctly and jump where I want them to.
2. The Find continues to work correctly whereas it would stop function before.