Steve Clark wrote:
> Mack Stevenson wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Following Steve Clark's suggestion on the mozilla-layout NG, I had a
>> look at both mozilla/webshell/tests/viewer and
>> mozilla/embedding/tests/gtkembed in the CVS tree. I wish to assemble
>> a simple HTML viewer into an existing application which uses the
>> Linux framebuffer as the display target; after browsing throught the
>> two test apps, and since I am not using any windowing toolkit at
>> all, I start to wonder what options I've got left, since I still
>> haven't found any demo of gecko rendering files to a target that
>> doesn't support a windowing toolkit.
>
>
> I suspect you'd have to write some code here to make this happen.
> Since we don't support passing in the rendering methods, your next
> best strategy would be to write your own implementation of the
> rendering context. I don't think you need to do anything with
> mozilla/view. I think the view system is a platform-neutral
> abstraction. There is platform/toolkit specific code in
> mozilla/widget you may need to look at as well.
>
> Having done this, I doubt your implementation will work correctly
> with plug-ins, but it should do the right thing with all the
> rendering under gecko's control. There may be some hints about how
> some of this works in the printing code.
There is an M18 port of Mozilla to nano-X that will probably map onto
the linux framebuffer with the right build settings:
http://www.igelaus.com.au/projects/nanox.html
http://microwindows.censoft.com/
Adam
