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Chapter 28. Web Services > Challenge: Add a WebView
Challenge: Add a WebView
At the moment, you are using NSWorkspace to open the Web page in another application. Perhaps the user would like it if the the web page appeared in a sheet in the existing application (Figure 28.7).
Figure 28.7. Use WebView to Display Details
The challenge, then, is to add a new window with a WebView to your application. Bring the window onto the screen as a sheet.
You will need to add the WebKit framework to your project.
If you have a string representing a URL, you can get a WebView to load that URL by sending it the following message:
- (void)setMainFrameURL:(NSString *)URLString;
That should be all you need. If you want a progress indicator, you will need to make your controller the “frame load delegate” of the WebView:
