On Thursday 18 December 2008 20:09, Stef Mientki wrote: > Under windows it's fairly easy to capture an application > and dock in to your own wxPython application, > something like this: > - start the external application from within wxPython > - give the caption of the application a special name > - find de windows handler of the applications mainform > - tell the applications mainform, that some wxpanel is the parent > > I use this to dock VPython in wxPython. > > Is there a similar solution for Linux ( and Mac) ?
On X11 systems, you can use the X11Embed protocol to do this. I would be surprised if wxWidgets doesn't have a component for this given that there's one for GTK+: http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/GtkSocket.html David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
