On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 14:12 -0400, edward baafi wrote: > Hi Marco, > > > What we need to do for pyxpcom to be actually useful is to bridge it to > > gtkmozembed. In particular we need to be able to access nsIWebBrowser, > > which gtkmozembed exposes, as a python object. Someone in the epiphany > > team might be able to give some guidance on this too. > > I guess I don't understand what the constraints are here.. Ian says > that the current web browser "activity" uses pygtkmozembed which is > lacking in terms of allowing you to customize the experience and thus > was looking for other options.. > > One option discussed was to build a custom Xulrunner based browser > application, which would give you access to nsiWebBrowser.. The > Democracy Player is one application that uses Xul + PyXpcom and > apparently uses the nsiWebBrowser interface: > https://develop.participatoryculture.org/trac/democracy/browser/trunk/dtv-binary-kit/idlinclude/nsIWebBrowser.idl?rev=4572 >
But it's a XUL application right? Not an embedding application. > You can also build a standalone PyXPCOM as discussed in this somewhat > outdated document: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standalone_PyXPCOM but > this wouldn't get you access to nsiWebBrowser by default.. > > My main question is whether you are open to a xulrunner based > application with xul widgets and either javascript or python front end > code as well as your choice of python, c, c++, and java components or > if you're locked into gtk widgets.. We are locked into gtk widgets, yeah. So I think there are two possibilities: 1 Write an embedding widget from scratch in Pyxpcom. It has been done for JavaXPCOM I think, so it's possible in theory. 2 Use gtkmozembed (written in C) but give access to the gtkmozembed nsIWebBrowser as a PyXPCOM object so that we can access the DOM document from python. It should be possible but I never investigated it much. Does this clarify? Thanks, Marco _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/sugar
