Re: HTML Widget / Embedded Browser

[Thomas Bayen <tbayen bayen de>]

muppet schrieb:
> Thomas Bayen said:
>
> > I am looking for a way to include a nice help & documentation system in
> > my application. I decided to use a wiki and call it via my webbrowser.
> > So I have all the flexibility of html and I may use direct links to the
> > Internet. But an external browser is not always the nicest (and fastest)
> > method.
> >
> > I asked google and found some comments about a HTML Widget and embedded
> > Browsers and yes - I saw HTML in a gnome program :-)  - But I could not
> > find the "state of the art" and what this all means to Gtk-Perl. Can
> > someone tell me what is actual the truth?
>
>
> there have been repeated requests for gtk2-perl binding for gtkhtml3[1] over
> the past several months, but no-one has volunteered to write those bindings.
>
> gtk-perl[2] included bindings for gtkhtml1 and for gecko (Gtk::MozEmbed), but
> as far as i know those are very out-of-date.  they are not compatible with
> gtk2-perl for various reasons, both subtle and obvious.
>
>
> so, the answer is, at the moment, "we ain't got nuffin'".  however, gtk2-perl
> bindings are easy to write[3], and anyone who wishes to volunteer to write
> bindings for either gtkhtml3 or gecko may rest assured that he or she will get
> all the help desired, and we'll even have a place for it in our cvs
> repository.

Thanks for this information!

I have not much time and my C experience is some years old but I wanted 
to look at it to decide how difficult it would be. I may be wrong but I 
could not find any documentation about one of the gtkhtml classes. I 
begin thinking I am too stupid to use google, but there is nothing. :-(

It seems that there is not much need in the gnome/gtk community for this 
widget and it is an only-ximian-knows thing :-( (why isn't it part of 
the gtk+ distribution?)

So it seems there are too much difficulties in sum for myself to try it. 
If someone with more experience needs help, I will do.


> however, the GtkTextView/TextBuffer stuff is very powerful and could be used
> to implement something like HTML.  pango markup also allows you to do
> html-like things.  if your dataset is small enough, either of these may be a
> viable option.

Yes, it seems to be very powerful and I thought about this before. But 
why re-invent the wheel if there is a standardized solution about 
showing "markup"ed text with links in it?


Thomas