I've always wanted to embed gecko in a few of my win32 apps (made with Borland and now CodeGear tools) but it's always been a huge challenge. I think Mozilla know this, so I was very excited by Blizzard's May, 2008 blog posts about this issue. But it's become silent again (fx3? ;-) with the wiki page untouched since March.
My "use case" would be this: I'll make xml from our database, transform it with xsl to make html, and style it with css. I'd then send that to the "browser" via a stream. I'd also need to intercept link clicks, which will be commands to my program to do something. I once made progress using the activex mshtml, but the rendering was IE6 so frustrating, and controlling the thing was hard because there was much to control but little power: intercept links, intercept clicks, handle select and copy actions. I didn't have much luck then with the mozilla control because too much of it was a stub at the time, and you couldn't "reach into the plumbing" to do the items I described above. So I wonder these things: 1. Is the "activex control" packaged in xulrunner 1.9 usable as a replacement for mshtml after regsvr32 registration? Can I reach into the plumbing now to do things like intercept link clicks and load the view via a stream? Or are we still strictly exposing an mshtml api? 2. Is xulrunner an answer to any question I have? Thanks, all. _______________________________________________ dev-embedding mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-embedding
