Scott Lanning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for your help, Boris. > > On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Boris Zbarsky wrote: >> For the embedding case, I believe >> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/embedding/PublicAPIs.html talks about >> nsIWebProgress and how to get one some. > > I don't really see it.. something about docloader service, I think. > >>> It seems I might use nsIWebBrowser->AddWebBrowserListener, >>> where what it says is nsIWeakReference is really my >>> nsIWebProgressListener. >> >> Yes, this would also work. > > I guess I've become lost again. At first I thought this > looked right. Then when I sat down to do it (I just play > with it in my spare time), implemented the listener, > and I noticed how in gtkmozembed (embedding/browser/gtk/src/) > there's a class EmbedPrivate. This seems to be the "browser". > Inside this class, it uses AddWebBrowserListener. <snip> > But then I'm not getting how what I'm doing is supposed to work with > gtkmozembed. I'm going to have to create another layer around > gtkmozembed, I guess.
I think you might be better off adapting or replacing GtkMozEmbed. It's not intended to serve the needs of everyone who's embedding Mozilla on Linux/Unix. > Hm, maybe that's normal, hence the "embed" part. :) > It's just confusing because I'm really writing Perl wrappers > not embedding something, so there's like an extra layer of > indirection. I just want to control Mozilla and don't even care > about gtk. Ideally I'd have an equivalent of gtkmozembed > without the gtk part, but my impression is that's impossible. > Maybe somehow if you implemented enough classes though in > a custom browser, you could fool Mozilla into thinking there > was a window there when there wasn't. I'm using a "headless" X server (Xvfb) as a way of running Mozilla without a window. Have a look at the FrameBuffer class in <http://womble.decadentplace.org.uk/software/webdvd-0.1.tar.bz2>. -- Ben Hutchings Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin _______________________________________________ mozilla-embedding mailing list [email protected] http://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mozilla-embedding
