Java Development

[anawara]

Hi guys,

I'm writing an application which invokes the browser and sends it a URL to open for the user. This is working perfectly on OS 4.6 to 5.0. However, on OS 6 and 7 the browser is always opened with two tabs; one includes the URL I'm trying to open and the other is the default BlackBerry browser page. Furthermore, the tab with the detaulf blackberry browser page is in focus and my users almost always miss to see that there's another tab open on their browser.

Has anyone seen this behavior before? If so, do you know how I can solve that problem? 

[anawara]

Anyone has any idea what's wrong here you guys?

[oros]

Hello anawara,

Can you share the code snippet, where you are configuring and invoking your browser, for us to take a look at?

Erik Oros

BlackBerry Development Advisor

[anawara]

Hi Erik,

I first use the BrowserSessionFactory found here then the following code runs 

    int i = Dialog.ask(Dialog.D_YES_NO,"Open website?");
                    if(i == Dialog.YES){
                        BrowserSession b = BrowserSessionFactory.createBISBrowserSession();
                        if(b == null){                                                    
                            b = BrowserSessionFactory.createBESBrowserSession();
                            if(b == null){
                                b = BrowserSessionFactory.createWAPBrowserSession();
                                if(b == null){
                                    b = BrowserSessionFactory.createDefaultBrowserSession();
                                }
                            }
                        }
                        String url = obj.getWebsite();
                        if(!url.startsWith("http"))
                            url = "http://"+url;
                        b.displayPage(url);
                        b.showBrowser();}

I am compiling on SDK 4.6. However, this behavior only happens with OS 6 since previous versions of the browser didn't have the multiple tabs feature

[oros · Accepted solution]

Hello anawara,

I'm working from memory here, but I believe that the call to b.displayPage(url) shows the browser to your URL, and then b.showBrowser() launches the 2nd tab. If you remove the call to b.showBrowser() on 6.0+, I believe that the second tab will not be created and only your URL will be displayed.

I'll double-check this in a sample, but I do recall thsi coming up before and am fairly sure that's where the issue stems from.

Erik Oros

BlackBerry Development Advisor

[anawara]

Hi Erik,

I've tried your solution. On the simulator calling both methods display the website correctly without the additional tab. However on devices running OS6+ this behavior occurs. I've disabled the call of showBrowser on OS6+ and tried on a device and it worked like a charm. Thanks a lot for your help! this has been puzzling me for a couple of months now!

Cheers,
Ahmed Nawara