Bjorn Reese wrote:
> Ari Heitner wrote:
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>> Why would you want to do this anyhow? I can see wanting to access Gtk widgets
>> from Qt or vise versa, but why from Xt?
>
>
> Because my task was to embed Mozilla in a Motif based application.
> Motif is based on Xt.
>
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>> More directly, it should be a reasonable hack to take say ... the gtkEmbed code
>> and just port that embedding over to Xt (to get a direct embedding, rather than
>> an Xt widget). iirc the mozilla part of gtkEmbed doesn't rely very heavily on
>> that much in the toolkit ...
>
>
> Is gtkEmbed the only part of Mozilla that depends on GTK?
No. gtkEmbed is a little sample program that's written in gtk that
embeds mozilla as a window. There's a lot of underlying code that is
used in mozilla that is gtk based.
>
> It was my impression that this was not the case. If it is possible to
> embed Mozilla directly in an Xt widget, then that would certainly be
> preferable in my case.
>
>
>> Actually it wouldn't be too hard to write an Xt wrapper that acts like a Gdk
>> container. Gdk is fairly closely based on X structures anyhow :)
>
>
> Before I attempted to do so, I did extensive web and newsgroup searches
> and noticed two things. First, there were no source code available.
> Second, whenever this issues was being raised, the unanimous reply was
> that it was hard (yours reply being the exception). The latter was also
> my experience, although it might be attributed to my lack of knowledge
> about GTK.
I wouldn't describe it as impossible, for sure. :) Seriously, it's not
too bad. I don't think that anyone has actually gotten mozilla running
in an Xt context using the Gtk widget set yet.
--Chris
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