All in all, i'm beginning to wonder whether it is a good idea to try and develop a crossplaform GUI application using WebKit...
would you recommend trying it or not ? > Hi, > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:56 AM, jeroen clarysse > <[email protected]> wrote: >> - are there sample applications somewhere with XCode & MSVC projects ? I'm a >> reasonably trained programmer, but I really fear setting up makefiles and >> workspaces. I recently spent half a week just to link an application to the >> SDL library, which is a lot simpler than WebKit I assume. Somehow I see >> myself giving up on things that are fairly trivial once one has a working, >> compilable example ! I've been browsing the web for WebKit samples, but >> really good ones seem very rare :-( > > The Apple Developer Connection site has several Xcode-based example > applications. A good one to start with is probably the CallJS example > (http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/samplecode/CallJS/). A year > or so ago I ported this as an MFC application (most current version at > http://whtconstruct.blogspot.com/2009/06/calljs-updated.html). > >> - are apple licenses very though on open source academic projects ? > > You cannot redistribute the support libraries used by Apple with their > port of WebKit. This includes ports of CoreFoundation, CFNetwork, and > CoreGraphics to Windows. You can use the redistributable WinCairo > port of WebKit, either by building it from the WebKit sources, or by > using Appcelerator Titanium project. I think there's a Sourceforge > project that uses the WinCairo port but I don't have the link > available at the moment. > >> - i have zero knowledge of cocoa & objC, which is why I was hoping to use >> Carbon. But I realize that carbon is a dead-end and I have to go with the >> flow sooner or later. With the SDL application that I was talking about, I >> managed to grab the SDL XCode sample project and work my way around objC >> code. Since all I want to do with this next project is simply a wrapper >> around webkit, I think that with a working example I might get a long way. >> Or am I mistaken ? > > I think Cocoa is the easiest approach. There's even an example Cocoa > app that lets you build a "web browser" in three lines of code. > > If all you need to do is display an application frame with WebKit > sitting in the middle, Cocoa is a piece of cake. > > I'd invest the time to learn Cocoa -- it's easy, fun, and well worth it. > > -Brent > _______________________________________________ webkit-help mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-help
