On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Robert (Jamie) Munro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > | > | The idea is the following: embed a Firefox inside JOSM to display a > dynamic > | background of Yahoo images, or better, an OpenLayers canvas with many > layers > | (Yahoo, Osmarender, Mapnik...) > | > | Some time after coding the Yahoo plugin, I started investigating another > | approach to the plugin, but didn't get to anywhere because of the > immature > | status of the libraries to be used. Recently, because of some problems > | reported with this plugin (firefox window not closing in linux, and > today > | reported error with FF3), I revised the libraries to see if they are > more > | mature, and found that it may be usable [1]. There are several libraries > | that can embed a browser in Java, but currently only two libraries that > I > | know are still supported and in development: SWT [2] and MozSwing [3]. > | > | The first one is the library used by the Eclipse project (from IBM), > and is > | heavily supported and developed.It supports native browsers (IE, FF, > | Safari), but requires a big download per O.S. The second one is a new > | library, still under development, but very promising. Supports only > FF, but > | until some patches are included in the final FF branch, a big download > (a > | custom XUL Runtime) is also needed. > > There is a project called SwingWT (http://swingwt.sourceforge.net/) > which is a reimplimentation of the Swing libraries, using the SWT widget > set. If you ported JOSM to use this (which should almost as simple as a > global search and replace), then you would have an SWT version of JOSM. > Because one of the features listed for SwingWT is "SWT components can be > directly accessed through the API, allowing mix and match (make Eclipse > plugins with Swing!)" you should then be able to use SWT's browser > embedding features easily. > > SWT is lighter than Swing because it uses the native widgets, rather > than widgets written in Java. > > Hi Robert, I had to spent my time with personal problems recently, so I haven't touch this idea for some weeks, but I have a proof of concept of the plugin, which is currently working within JOSM, with some very basic integration with OpenLayers and some browsing cache. However, I abandoned the Firefox/SWT idea in favor of a fully Java Swing browser[1], since I had too many problems with the integration of SWT in JOSM. Regards, Quico [1]: http://lobobrowser.org/cobra.jsp
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