#WinFormium form
The core of the WinFormium form is the Formium class. Its principle is to embed the Chromium kernel in the WinForm form to display web pages in the WinForm form. WinFormium forms retain most of the features of Windows Forms and try to remain consistent with Windows Forms in terms of programming methods. Therefore, if you are familiar with Windows Forms, you will be able to get started with WinFormium forms quickly.
WinFormium forms have a variety of built-in styles to choose from. You can choose the appropriate form style according to your needs. Combined with the powerful front-end rendering function of the Chromium browser, you can easily implement a variety of rich user interaction interfaces.
Since the Formium class does not inherit from System.Windows.Forms.Form, it is not a control. Internally, it maintains its own Form components and CEF components. Normally you cannot access these components directly, but you can achieve the above purpose through the methods and properties provided by the Formium class.
In this chapter, the form part and browser part of the Formium class will be introduced separately, which can better help you understand the working principle of the WinFormium form.
As mentioned in the introduction, the Formium class does not inherit from System.Windows.Forms.Form, so it is not a control, nor is it a form in the traditional sense. However, it provides a series of properties and methods to operate the form objects maintained internally. These properties and methods are similar to those of the System.Windows.Forms.Form class, but not exactly the same.
For more information about the form part of the Formium class, please refer to “Form Function”.
The browser part of the Formium class is the core of the WinFormium form, which encapsulates the complete Chromium browser. However, as a user interface framework, WinFormium does not fully implement all the interfaces of the Chromium browser, because the purpose of WinFormium is to allow you to use web pages in WinForm forms to design the user interface of your application. As for other functions, such as: Downloading, printing, plug-ins, request interception, etc., these functions are not the focus of WinFormium, so there are no relevant interfaces to implement these functions. If your application needs to use these unimplemented interfaces, please implement them yourself.
For more information about the browser part of the Formium class, please refer to “Browser Functions”.