Greetings, I've been using Gecko 1.8.1.13 embedded into our
Windows .NET 2.0 application via the "official" mozctlx.dll ActiveX
wrapper and it has worked like a charm. However, recently we've been
trying to update to the newest version of Gecko (1.9 pre5) due to the
great rendering speed improvements and I've run into trouble -
the .NET application, embedding Gecko as its main window, seems to
crash arbitrarily, and the reasons given are either corrupted memory
("Attempted to read or write protected memory" in
NativeMethods.DispatchMessage) or various .NET rendering exceptions
("GDI+ not ready", "Overflow" when drawing with Pen and such).
Now, all of this is unfortunately very hard to track back to the Gecko
component as it manifests itself only on Windows XP (not Vista) and
usually after few hours of (gecko rendering) work, but a simple
exchange for an older one seems to render our application back to the
rock-stable state (one computer is particularly good at crashing it -
all it takes is displaying a Windows Common OpenFileDialog and
clicking on a file...there is a 20% chance each click will crash it).
Yes, I know that the 1.9 prerelease 5 is really a prerelease and not a
stable version, not whining that it might be broken ;) I would just
like to know if the official ActiveX wrapper "mozctlx.dll", which is
still part of the XULRunner source and is compiled regularly, is
actually being developed and tested or has been long since abandoned
(I know it's a very shallow embed, but still, there seems to be
trouble now that hasn't been before). If not, whether there are some
alternatives for us to use with the 1.9 engine. And whether someone
actually is using this prerelease activex and how well it's going.
Our application inside is a very, very heavy javascript engine written
with Qooxdoo...it might be taking its toll.
Thanks for any answers.
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