Thanks - but I thought that "embedding" was running a browser instance in a
non-Mozilla application (via the ActiveX wrapper). Does that still allow you
do do XUL dialogs, XPCOM, etc, and without any ActiveX ?
Cheers,
Chris
"John Bandhauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Sounds to me like you want to look closer at what the embedding
> people are doing...
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/embedding/
>
> There seem to be a lot of old info there. I suggest you browse
> the newsgroup (link on that page). And look at the mfcembed and
> winembed samples/testbeds.
>
> Good Luck.
>
> John.
>
> Chris Melville wrote:
> >
> > I'd like to start playing with constructing a UI (eg. XUL-based dialog
box),
> > skinning it, and linking back to C++ code through javascript/XPConnect
and
> > XPCOM.
> >
> > However I want to start doing it from a familiar environment (Visual
> > Studio). I've got a sample VC++ application set-up, and I'd like to have
the
> > above (Mozilla-based) dialog pop up when a menu command is chosed. I
figure
> > this will help me start to understand how to use increasing amounts of
> > Mozilla code in my non-browser apps (previously MFC-based) until they
become
> > almost totally Mozilla-based.
> >
> > I've done so much reading on the various Moz technologies that my head
is
> > spinning, but I'm still strugling to understand where to start doing
this. I
> > know I need the indiviual technologies/libraries (XPCOM) but what do I
need
> > to do to load/initialise the appropriate things so I can start doing
> > XUL/javascript/XPCOM stuff in my own external C++ application?
> >
> > I have downloaded and built 0.8.1, and added the include/lib/bin subdirs
in
> > the 'dist' subdirectory to my VC++ project, so I guess I'm ready to
start
> > writing code, once I know what to write.
> >
> > Any help before I fall over would be most appreciated :0)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Chris
