Re: libseed-list Exposing GObjects in a Webview JS context

[Alan Knowles <alan akbkhome com>]

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The return value from the ::console_message() determines if the message 
has been 'handled' - can't remeber which one, but returning true of 
false stops it

Regards
Alan

Alan Forbes wrote:
> Thanks Alan.
>
> I've managed to get it working once I found out how to write to
> console.log() in HTML. Now I need to find out if it is possible to stop
> the echo of console.log() to terminal as it doesn't look too
> professional!! 
>
>
>
> On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 06:28 +0800, Alan Knowles wrote:
>   
> > this is feasible already  - WebView communicating with a outer app, using
> > GTK->Webkit  execute_script()
> > Webkit->Gtk  either by ::console_message or ::script_alert signals
> >
> > The patch is quite nice (and is now in HEAD), and would be even better 
> > if we could access it in Seed.
> > Currently the exposed signal has this signature
> > *window_object_cleared* (WebView 
> > <http://devel.akbkhome.com/seed/WebKit.WebView.shtml> */self/*, WebFrame 
> > <http://devel.akbkhome.com/seed/WebKit.WebFrame.shtml> */object/*, void* 
> > <http://devel.akbkhome.com/seed/void*.shtml> */p0/*, void* 
> > <http://devel.akbkhome.com/seed/void*.shtml> */p1/*) : none
> >
> > So unfortunately we can not interact directly with the context in Seed. 
> > That would need fixing at the GtkWebkit or Webkit source layer,
> >
> > Regards
> > Alan
> >
> >
> >
> > Alan Forbes wrote:
> >     
> > > Hi Tim
> > >
> > > I've not being able to try your example app due to laptop shutting down
> > > with CPU overheat when compiling latest build of WebKit (I'm sure this
> > > is a bug in Ubuntu ACPI?).
> > >
> > > Anyway, I was thinking, it is possible to have a standalone JavaScript
> > > program that can use a WebView object as the UI front-end? 
> > >
> > > By this I mean rather than having GTK as the GUI, a WebView object is
> > > used and communication i.e. user clicks on a HTML button is pressed and
> > > the JavaScript file gets this via a signal attached to the WebView
> > > object in order to do some action.   
> > >
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