Note that Firefox is moving towards a similar "out of process" model for plugins and rendering
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Doug Hill<dough...@grouplogic.com> wrote: > Avi, > Thanks for the quick reply and, good point. I’m trying to register > drag/drop handlers so my plugin can receive drops from another process, e.g. > the Finder. Under Carbon, I get the windowRef and attach DragManager > handlers and hey presto it works since Drag Manager tracking, etc. is global > to the application. I’ve got it working with a WebKit plugin by calling > registerForDraggedTypes() on the NSView I create and return to WebKit in > response to plugInViewWithArguments. I was assuming that I could do > something similar inside a Netscape plugin once I managed to acquire a > suitable NSView*. And thus began my quest and reading of WebKit and Moz > source.... > > I should mention that I am only targeting FF and WebKit at the moment and > with my business requirements that’s unlikely to change anytime soon. > > -doug > > > > On 7/17/09 3:44 PM, "Avi Drissman" <a...@google.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Doug Hill <dough...@grouplogic.com> wrote: > > In a Netscape plugin, if NPDrawingModelQuickDraw and NPEventModelCarbon are > not available :-) how does one get a reference to the window or NSView > that a plugin is contained in? > > It is a bad assumption to make that you are in a window or NSView in the > first place. > > Using Chromium as an example (a browser I work on), plugins are hosted in a > separate process. The window in which the user sees their drawing is in an > entirely different process and wouldn't be accessible to the plugin anyway. > > What are you trying to do? > > Avi > > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > > -- Mike Pinkerton Mac Weenie pinker...@google.com _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
