need some hints -embedding moziila

Lloyd · Post by **Lloyd** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 12:22 pm

Hi,
For the last 2 weeks I have been trying to build mozilla and to embed it with wxWidgets 2.6.3 on Linux. Still I am not successful

Has anybody successfully built Mozilla and run the wxEmbed test application in it? Can anybody help me to select the mozilla package (which version 1.5, 1.7 etc..).

In the readme file of wxEmbed, What I understood is it is meant for only wx2.4 on windows with static build...

Would anybody throw some light on this problem?

I have compiled wxMozilla on fedora core 5 and I treid it. But I am not able to load images from the disk to the browser. The code which works with wxHtmlwindow also not working with this!

Awaiting atleast for some hints to solve this. I cant continue my work until a good browser is embedded with my application

Thanks and Regards,
Lloyd

Post by **lowjoel** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 9:55 pm

I never got wxMozlla to compile, since their release was nearly 2 years ago (and they were still using 2.4.2). I'm not sure if anyone here for that matter got wxMozilla to work, since after compiling my program crashed on startup. This may very well be caused by me using Unicode in wxWidgets, but I don't really know, lol.

Joel

JSThePatriot · Post by **JSThePatriot** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:59 pm

I have heard tale of a wxWebKit in the dev's list. Might want to check and see if you can find anything about that there. It is my understand that is to replace the wxMozilla, and other browser classes to date. If you successfully find that, and get it working please post, and give some links or something as I will need a similar functionality in the future.

JS

Post by **Auria** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 11:27 pm

JSThePatriot wrote:I have heard tale of a wxWebKit in the dev's list. Might want to check and see if you can find anything about that there. It is my understand that is to replace the wxMozilla, and other browser classes to date. If you successfully find that, and get it working please post, and give some links or something as I will need a similar functionality in the future.

JS

My understanding is that wxWebKit is a native HTML mac component. However, i believe this is part of a bigger effort to use native HTML components on all platforms (see google summer of code proposed projects pages, i think it's one of the proposed projects)

JSThePatriot · Post by **JSThePatriot** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 12:51 am

Auria wrote:My understanding is that wxWebKit is a native HTML mac component. However, i believe this is part of a bigger effort to use native HTML components on all platforms (see google summer of code proposed projects pages, i think it's one of the proposed projects)

Hrm. I had the understanding that it was in a cross-platform state already. I had heard something about it using the safari back end or something along those lines, and was going to be much smaller than wxMozilla already is.

I also had a peek at the engine that Mozilla uses, and I haven't yet figured out how exactly I could get it to work with wxWidgets, but I am still looking into it. I need a cross-platform browser component. wxHTMLWindow works great for some of my tasks, but not all of them.

Thanks,
JS

Post by **Auria** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 12:58 am

JSThePatriot wrote:
Auria wrote:My understanding is that wxWebKit is a native HTML mac component. However, i believe this is part of a bigger effort to use native HTML components on all platforms (see google summer of code proposed projects pages, i think it's one of the proposed projects)
Hrm. I had the understanding that it was in a cross-platform state already. I had heard something about it using the safari back end or something along those lines, and was going to be much smaller than wxMozilla already is.

I also had a peek at the engine that Mozilla uses, and I haven't yet figured out how exactly I could get it to work with wxWidgets, but I am still looking into it. I need a cross-platform browser component. wxHTMLWindow works great for some of my tasks, but not all of them.

Thanks,
JS

Well Safari is based on Konqueror AFAIk, so if they used that it indeed would be cross-platform. But WebKit is the name of a mac HTML framework - perhaps it's a just a naming coincidence

JSThePatriot · Post by **JSThePatriot** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 1:02 am

Auria wrote:Well Safari is based on Konqueror AFAIk, so if they used that it indeed would be cross-platform. But WebKit is the name of a mac HTML framework - perhaps it's a just a naming coincidence

Hrm. Well I guess I will have to dig into it. As much as I would love to start my own wxContribution, I don't think I am ready for it yet.

I will post when I figure out something more on it. I have tried searching all over google, and all the wx websites. I guess what's left is just asking in the dev's list.

JS

Post by **Auria** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 1:12 am

Answer is there:
http://lists.wxwidgets.org/archive/wx-dev/msg46519.html

it's Mac-specific

how to implement it so that it works well with wxHTML2?

just like wxMozilla and wxActiveX

JSThePatriot · Post by **JSThePatriot** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 1:20 am

Auria wrote:Answer is there:
http://lists.wxwidgets.org/archive/wx-dev/msg46519.html

it's Mac-specific

how to implement it so that it works well with wxHTML2?

just like wxMozilla and wxActiveX

Dang it! =/

I guess I am going to look into something else soon.

JS

Post by **tierra** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 8:03 am

First off, let me point out that the post you revived was posted back in April of 2004, plenty has changed since then. Second, nothing in that post says anything about it being Mac-only, it only refers to the fact that wxWebKit at least works on Carbon at the time that was posted.

Also, wxWebKit is built on top of the official open-source browser engine that goes by the name of WebKit. This is in fact the same engine that Safari on Mac uses, along with a good 50-100 other applications on Mac OS X, however, it is not limited to running only on Mac OS X. There is a Gdk port of WebKit that uses GTK+. There has also been some amount of work with using WebKit on Windows.

JSThePatriot · Post by **JSThePatriot** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:58 pm

tierra wrote:First off, let me point out that the post you revived was posted back in April of 2004, plenty has changed since then. Second, nothing in that post says anything about it being Mac-only, it only refers to the fact that wxWebKit at least works on Carbon at the time that was posted.

Also, wxWebKit is built on top of the official open-source browser engine that goes by the name of WebKit. This is in fact the same engine that Safari on Mac uses, along with a good 50-100 other applications on Mac OS X, however, it is not limited to running only on Mac OS X. There is a Gdk port of WebKit that uses GTK+. There has also been some amount of work with using WebKit on Windows.

That is refreshing to hear. I tried searching the dev list, but I apparently couldn't search well. I noticed the date, but couldn't find much since then.

JS

Post by **Auria** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 11:18 pm

tierra wrote:First off, let me point out that the post you revived was posted back in April of 2004, plenty has changed since then. Second, nothing in that post says anything about it being Mac-only, it only refers to the fact that wxWebKit at least works on Carbon at the time that was posted.

Also, wxWebKit is built on top of the official open-source browser engine that goes by the name of WebKit. This is in fact the same engine that Safari on Mac uses, along with a good 50-100 other applications on Mac OS X, however, it is not limited to running only on Mac OS X. There is a Gdk port of WebKit that uses GTK+. There has also been some amount of work with using WebKit on Windows.

Ok thnaks for the info

sometimes it's hard to follow for us non-mailing-list folks

Lloyd · Post by **Lloyd** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:00 am

I never got wxMozlla to compile, since their release was nearly 2 years ago (and they were still using 2.4.2). I'm not sure if anyone here for that matter got wxMozilla to work, since after compiling my program crashed on startup. This may very well be caused by me using Unicode in wxWidgets, but I don't really know, lol.

I have installed Fedora core 5 with mozilla development packages. It is installed with wxGtk 2.6.3. (It is also a unicode build) I could compile wxMozilla on that and the demo applications starts. But the functions in that library does not seems to work for me (just to load a stored HTML and Image files from disk)

So I thought of going to embed mozilla myself. But I am unsuccessful. Firefox 1.5 source compiles on my EL4. But it seems that the exEmbed sample in the mozilla is meant for wxMsw 2.4. I am not able to compile it on my EL4.

If anybody have embedded mozilla on their wxGtlk 2.6.3, and able to load file from disk, please help me...

I have heard tale of a wxWebKit in the dev's list. Might want to check and see if you can find anything about that there. It is my understand that is to replace the wxMozilla, and other browser classes to date. If you successfully find that, and get it working please post, and give some links or something as I will need a similar functionality in the future.

I checked webkit's site... But it does not says whether it will work on Linux.. (It mainly describes about Mac) But it also adds that it is an open source project and it is built with Gtk library. And also says that it is not a browser but somethign like a framework to build browsers.

Still I could not choose a path to follow

Thanks and Regards,
Lloyd