Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:02:49 -0500 (CDT)
   From: Mark Jacobson <jacobson@math-cs.cns.uni.edu>
     To: 810-030-01@uni.edu
Subject: Web Browser assignment... Due on Friday...

Visual Basic students,

     Please read and DO Hour 9 (Chapter 9) of the book, so you know
     about Menus in Visual Basic 2005.

     Review of today's class follows here.

Here is what my bookmarks.txt file looked like:
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http://www.cns.uni.edu/~jacobson;Mark Jacobson at UNI
http://www.cns.uni.edu/~jacobson/bio;Bioinformatics Links
http://www.cns.uni.edu/~jacobson/c030NET.html;Summer 2006 Visual Basic
www.google.com;Google
http://www.imdb.com/;The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
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Notice the semicolon ( ; ) character is the separator...

Notice the format of the two fields is:

   field 1; field 2

       where field 1 = the actual URL
   and       field 2 = the descriptive bookmark, usually the
                          TITLE of the web page, which is stored in
                          the DocumentTitle property of the
                          WebBrowser1 control.

             Me.Text = WebBrowser1.DocumentTitle

                 sets the Form's .Text property to display the
                                        title after the browser control's
                                        Navigated() event has happened.

                 (See your handout).
Private Sub WebBrowser1_Navigated(ByVal sender As Object,
                                   ByVal e As
                          System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowserNavigatedEventArgs)
                                         Handles WebBrowser1.Navigated
    Me.Text = WebBrowser1.DocumentTitle
       ...
       other code
       ...
    txtURL.Text = WebBrowser1.Url.ToString
End Sub


          After class I tested out the following, and found out that

         Do Until URL = ""                  URL is a String variable, set by
            ...                                      URL = myFavs.ReadLine()
         Loop
             works exactly the same as

         Do Until URL Is Nothing
            ...
         Loop

      What is myFavs, you ask??

     Dim myFavs As New System.IO.StreamReader("C:\MarkJacobson\bookmarks.txt")
         ------                        ------

     An input stream from which we extract records like:

         http://www.imdb.com/;The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
         URL URL URL URL URL ; Bookmark description TITLE of page



             a = URL.Split(";")         SPLIT record into its two
                                        separate fields, and
                                        store in array a(),

                        a(0)  would be  "http://www.uni.edu/"

                    and a(1)  would be  "University of Northern Iowa"

   See http://www.cns.uni.edu/~jacobson/emailSplit030.txt

         for an example program from Visual Basic .NET that uses
         the .Split method and function.

   If you get a chance, try to write the code
                                 for the rewriteBookmarks() Sub before class.
     Sub rewriteBookmarks()              ----------------
         ' this sub will update the bookmarks file.
     End Sub

   For sure, try to finish up individually what the group exercise started,
   which was adding a bookmark....

   The following code from btnNewHome_Click() would be handy to study
       when writing
                    btnAddNewBookMark_Click() code...

Private Sub btnNewHome_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object,
                              ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
                                                    Handles btnNewHome.Click

   HomePageURL = InputBox("What would you like to be your new home page",
                                "Set Home Page", WebBrowser1.Url.ToString)
   homeChanged = True
End Sub

    The InputBox() shown above has THREE arguments.

    The 3rd argument is the DEFAULT, which means the user only need
    click OK and not type anything into the inputbox, to accept the
    default.

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    http://www.sitcomsonline.com/familyties.html   FAMILY TIES
                                                   -----------

                       *****   Michael J. Fox as Alex P. Keaton  *****

             First Telecast:  September 22, 1982
              Last Telecast:  September 17, 1989
   Total number of episodes:  180

The mellow 1960s clashed with the conservative 1980s in this 
generation-gap comedy, which in some ways reflected America's changing 
values in the Reagan area.  President Reagan, in fact, called Family Ties 
his favorite show.  It was set it middle America--Columbus, Ohio--where 
one-time flower children Elyse and Steve Keaton still espoused the liberal 
values of the idealistic '60s, although they were now parents and 
professionals (she an architect, he the manager of public TV station 
WKS-TV).  Their children's ideals were something else.  Seventeen-year-old 
Alex was Mr. Conservative, habitually dressed in suit and tie and with a 
picture of William F. Buckley, Jr., over his bed.  Mallory, 15, was into 
designer jeans, boys, and drunk food, while cute little Jennifer, 9, just 
wanted to be a kid.  They were a loving family, though the kids never 
could understand those Bob Dylan records their parents kept playing.
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      As you can see, Michael J. Fox indeed did star in the Family Ties
show, as Alex Keaton.  In Back to the Future his character name was:

                                      Marty McFly

      Tagline: He's the only kid ever to get into trouble before he was born.

Plot Outline: In 1985, Doc Brown invented time travel, in 1955, Marty
               McFly accidentally prevented his parents from meeting,
               putting his own existence at stake.
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    See you tommorrow in class.

    Mark