Hi I'm a little overwhelmed by the various ways of embedding mozilla.
My application requirement is very simple: I am displaying a local index.html file (incl. css style sheet) in full-screen and without any user interface. From another application I am triggering a reload of that site. If the loading the site fails for some reason (e.g. index.html doesn't exist) I am displaying another error.html. I'm running Linux on a PowerPC MPC5200 with X and gtk+-2. (1) Initially I wrote a XUL application by creating a folder ./mozilla-central/mybrowser and building it with: ac_add_app_options mybrowser --enable-application=mybrowser ac_add_app_options mybrowser --with-libxul-sdk=../xulrunner/dist Apart from a poor performance (probably due to a bad configuration at my side) it does work. I'm also suffering from the restrictions on IPC mechanism. In order to trigger a reload from another application I had to setup a WebServer that does nothing but wait for the other process to open the port. (2) My second approach was to use gtkmozembed. Based on ./mozilla-central/embedding/browser/gtk/tests/TestGtkEmbed.cpp I've written my application. It seemed to me that this is a much leaner approach compared to (1). I've implemented the reload-triggering by catching SIGUSR1. In its interrupt handler I'm setting a global flag only that I'm polling for in a timer. I could make the browser global and do the reload directly in the interrupt handler but I'm afraid I could catch mozilla in a bad moment?! (3) As a third approach I tried following this https://wiki.mozilla.org/Embedding/NewApi/GtkLinux but the configure fails with "libxul-embedding-unstable is required". Before I continue any road, can you please suggest what's the best approach? I'm quite confused at this point. Also could you please comment on these issues I'm having? *** Is there a preferred / known-to-be-working configuration for a minimal XULRunner? (according to the profile mentioned here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gecko:Small_Device_Support) After a lot of trial&error this is what I'm currently using as configuration: --enable-optimize --enable-strip --disable-plugins --disable-accessibility --disable-printing --disable-installer --disable-mochitest --disable-updater --disable-logging --disable-necko-wifi --disable-jsd --disable-ogg --disable-wave --disable-crashreporter --disable-parental-controls --disable-dbus --disable-permissions --disable-negotiateauth --disable-libnotify --disable-xtf --disable-dbm --disable-zipwriter --disable-extensions --disable-xpfe-components --disable-xpinstall --disable-pref-extensions --disable-universalchardet --disable-pango --disable-gnomeui --disable-gnomevfs --enable-image-decoders=png,gif,jpeg --enable-necko-small-buffers --enable-faststart --enable-enable-plantext-editor-only --disable-profilelocking --enable-mobile-optimize --disable-vista-sdk-requirements --enable-native-uconv --disable-tests I've seen sample configs using "ac_add_options --with-embedding-profile=minimal" but I've grepped the source for "embedding-profile" and it comes up with nothing! *** Is it possible to disable the history function? Also, is it possible to disable caching of the sites? Many thanks Stefan. _______________________________________________ dev-embedding mailing list dev-embedding@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-embedding
