Carbon Man wrote: > Hi, > I need to embed a web browser into a python page. I am coming from the MS > world where I created an app that all of it's interfaces were actually web > pages rendered in an Internet Explorer activex control. There was a object > hook that allowed you to call into the host environment from javascript. > Basically the host environment would receive the documentComplete event > and call a method in the document's Javascript passing in an object > reference. That reference would then be available for calls to be made > from Javascript back into the host environment. > I am just starting to explore the Pythonic programming jungle and I was > wondering if there is a way to do something similar that would work > cross-platform? > I guess there is much more complexity in it when you start to go across > o/s platform boundaries. The common web interface would then be Gecko or > WebKit? So can someone suggest what would be required to build a > cross-platform Python app that was capable of browsing HTML files, > receiving events from the browser, and that allows the embedded page to > call host Python modules from Javascript via an object reference? Or I am > asking too much :)
The only thing that might work is Qt + webkit that is used as it's browser. Everything else is not cross platform. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list