Hi, On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 7:13 AM, Ben Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > I was thinking along the same lines... Embedding apps in one another is > not a very 'Mac' thing, and I'm not sure the APIs support it like on > other platforms. > > But...I can think of one example. Adobe Reader is embedded in Safari > using a web plugin...I think. This may be more about the web plugin > containing a minimal Adobe Reader implementation than embedding one app > in another, though. Or it may be more about a rich plugin interface > being offered by the browser. There are web plugins that work in > multiple browsers, though, too: the QuickTime plugin works in Safari, > Firefox, ...; the logmein.com Mac plugin works in multiple browsers, > too, I think. And there are more.
Another example would be: MPlayer OSX (Extended) [1] shows a mplayer window when playing video, which is from a separate binary and launched as a separate process, I believe it used some Quartz APIs to retrieve the window/drawing context of that separate process. - Jiang [1] http://mplayerosx.sttz.ch/ -- You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
