RE: Running external program inside a widget

[omar crea jusan it]

Thanks a lot Kumar!
It seems not quite simple, also because I haven't the browser source, but I'll
try with another browser.


Quoting Kumar Siddharth <kumarsiddharth tataelxsi co in>:

> Hi,
>
> You can place the call in any appropriate event handler. Also, you will have
> to create a socket in your GTK program. Now in your browser app, you need
> modification so that you can create a plug and attach it to the socket
> created in GTK App. Now the browser (May be its rendering area widget)
> should be attached to this plug, and should not be as main window. Meaning
> you need source for browser or may be a method so that the browser output is
> redirected to GtkDrawingArea (which can be connected to plug).
>
> Regards,
> Siddharth
> TATA Elxsi, India
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gtk-app-devel-list-bounces gnome org
> [mailto:gtk-app-devel-list-bounces gnome org]On Behalf Of
> omar crea jusan it
> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 9:24 PM
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> Subject: RE: Running external program inside a widget
>
>
> Excuse me but I'm new to GTK+: at which moment I have to call the system()
> function to run the external program I need (a web browser, in this case)?
> Do I
> have to use two different source files to implement this mechanism (run the
> app
> as a GtkPlug, give it the ID of the GtkSocket, ecc.)? If not, which are the
> steps to implement this on a single source file?
> Thank in advance for answers.
> Omar
>
>
> Quoting Kumar Siddharth <kumarsiddharth tataelxsi co in>:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > You may use GtkSocket(in Host App) and GtkPlug(in Embedded App) for this.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Siddharth
> > TATA Elxsi
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: gtk-app-devel-list-bounces gnome org
> > [mailto:gtk-app-devel-list-bounces gnome org]On Behalf Of
> > omar crea jusan it
> > Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 7:24 PM
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> > Subject: Running external program inside a widget
> >
> >
> > Hi everybody.
> > Do anyone know how to include an external program to a widget of the main
> > window?
> > I have a main window containing a notebook, and in one of the notebook's
> tab
> > I
> > want to show an instance of a browser (Opera) inside a GtkDrawingArea(),
> and
> > not to show the external program in its own new window (not associated to
> my
> > application). My hardware is a Nokia N800 (tablet PC).
> > Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance.
> > Omar
> >
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