Stewart Stremler wrote:
begin quoting Michael O'Keefe as of Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 07:37:15PM -0700:
Then why don't you go help them out since its so simple?
I'm sure they'd love the help.
http://dn.codegear.com/print/28199
This is what I would think is all it would need
Use of the XReparentWindow() function (that's all a WM does)
http://dn.codegear.com/print/28199
Now that makes it X11 only, so I have NFI what to do on other OSes.
But there are other issues too. How does the browser, embedding the
editor inside itself, control where the editor saves files ?
It prolly can't. And it would have to know where the editor saved the
file to be able to include it in the email.
And yet... mutt does it.
So the problem is prolly not that they couldn't get any old editor into
TB, but how to control it once they did !
You invoke the editor on a file of your own choosing. When the editor
exits, you read the file in.
But you'd have to exit the editor to tell the outside app that you're
finished. Now ppl (the original Q was why can't TB use an editor of my
choosing) hit the Send button. But now you'd have to quit your editor to
let TB know "Im done" and then automatically Send, or still require them
to hit send.
Although, I'm complicating the issue by embedding it in TB, rather than
just launching independently and relying on a SIGCHLD to know it's done.
I think they'd rather just use the TextArea widget and control it
themselves. Course, that creates a helluva lot of "editor" widgets out
there, none behaving all the same way or having different features.
Should be able to write a pretty small X11 app that takes 2 window Id's
and XReparentWindow()'s one into the other. xwininfo will tell you all
about the Window's in an app.
Hm... you're trying to connect to a running editor?
No, start the editor to embed it's window inside your own.
So from a certain point of view, I suppose you could say that's it
already running (it has to be running to open a connection to the
XServer to create the TopLevel in the first place)
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