folks, hi, just an update: i was advised kindly to look at pywebkitgtk - which i downloaded and compiled from source, this morning. _wow_ am i dead impressed with this project! the demo browser example ran my javascript-only web site, http://lkcl.net and it _nearly_ managed to run my javascript-only site i'm developing, http://partyliveonline.com - except it segfaulted after login. _wow_ would i have been so impressed if it had worked first time :) the concept of having a standards-compliant browser, integrateable into apps using python... _wow_ :)
anyway: i added in pywebkitgtk instead of python-gtkhtml2 and was pleased to find that it worked absolutely perfectly to provide [a missing] gtk.HTML-like widget. what i was _less_ impressed with is that it suffers *exactly* the same flaw that python-gtkhtml2 has: a widget created with pywebkitgtk *cannot* tell you what its width and height is, and so, if you insert it into an app, and the app size "shrinks", the HTML - even if it's one line of HTML - gets "chopped off". there's no enforcement of HTML content "size" communicated back to the gtk.Widget "container". thus, sadly, pywebkitgtk is as useless as python-gtkhtml2 for doing the simple, simple job of putting HTML as simple as " < b>hello< /b >" into an application. also i haven't checked yet if "object_requested" is supported in pywebkitgtk or its equivalent - i hope so, because it's absolutely essential functionality . qt4 has support for "Rich Text" - simple things like "< b >hello< /b >" can be detected and displayed, and the size of the box is "enforced" as a minimum width and height onto the application. it's _essential_ that GTK have similar such functionality. implementing these features "outside" of the core gtk widget set - using pygtk2 alone - registers on the "awkward to literally impossible" scale. l. p.s. for those people on the gtk-devel mailing list, information on the context for this message can be found at: http://advogato.org/person/lkcl and at http://lkcl.net/pyjamas-desktop - i am porting pyjamas - the python-to-javascript compiler - to pygtk2 _and_ pyqt4 _and_ iron-python with gtk-sharp _and_ i will be looking at qyoto, at a later date. see http://lkcl.net/pyjamas-desktop - pygtk2.tgz for progress on the python-gtk2 port. On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ok. thanks sam. > > to gtk developers: i'm going to have to terminate work on > python-desktop's gkt2 widget set until a solution is available: > python-gtkhtml3 or other solution. it's simply not ok to have widgets > that force you to specify both the width and the height, and if you > don't do so, they just... don't work. > > python-gtkhtml2 views, if you specify only the width, the height > remains at zero: that's unacceptable. > > in gtk-sharp, Gtk.HTML works absolutely fine (iirc correctly) > > l. > > On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Sam Varshavchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton writes: >> >>> sam, hi, >>> did you ever receive a reply - or find a solution - to this question? >>> for http://lkcl.net/pyjamas-desktop i'm looking for the way to calculate >>> a sensible size for gtkhtml2.Views, based on the HTML inside. at present, >>> exactly as you probably found, a popup dialog is created... with zero >>> width >>> and height. >>> only by having set the width to a fixed pixel size is the dialog turning >>> out to be 1 pixel high (and 218 pixels wide), and the user application >>> chose >>> that. >> >> Nope. >> >> > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
