Re: Running external program inside a widget

["Jonathan Winterflood" <jonathan winterflood gmail com>]

Hi,
I believe you cant embed anythoing that wasn't designed for a plug (or can
be modified for it)
this might be useful though:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/embedding/

Jonathan

On 7/13/07, omar crea jusan it <omar crea jusan it> wrote:
> 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
> > To: GTK+ mailing list
> > 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
> > > To: GTK+ mailing list
> > > 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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