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Hi,

Can someone possibly explain what the best way to complete the following is within a Desktop Application (Building first Desktop App, only done Mobile in the past)

1: Open up Google Maps with the Application and let the user navigate to a point (abilit to search would be great but not needed)
2: Let the user drop a "Pin" at that point then get the browser to export the coordinates of that Pin to a Variable
(this variable will then be placed into a file and sent to my Mobile App)

Any advice offered would be fantastic and greately appreciated!!

Hi Nakia,
Have you looked at revBrowser? There is an example stack under Help.
It's a web browser so it will act just like using any other browser (you can search the website).

Simon

Thanks Simon, yet to do too much with Desktop Applications so very "green"..

Seeing it is a WebBrowser as sych how would I retreieve the lat and long of the pin I drop?

You can pull stuff out of the revbrowser instance using javascript. Look at revBrowserExecuteScript in the dictionary.

Don't forget to look up Google Maps APIs.
Just in-case you don't want to use a browser object.

Simon

Found a great test stack made by Dixie quite some time ago which has helped a lot
Just trying to find out now the options to enable the ability to drop pins and subsequently fetch the Lat & Long