Re: [MACTCL] Trying to embed Cocoa webkit view in Tk Cocoa

[Kevin W. <kw...@co...>]

After doing more work with this, I've gotten a Cocoa window to draw from 
inside Tk with a webkit view embedded. It was easy. Draw the window, 
call [window setContentView: webKitstuff], and it works fine.

However, I can't seem to find any way to get a handle on an actual Tk 
window from Cocoa for purposes of embedding a content view. As others on 
the mailing list have noted, it's possible to get a WindowRef from a 
Carbon window, but that's not an option with Cocoa.

Looking more closely at the Tk-Cocoa source code, I see all kinds of 
ways to get at a Tk window, and even a few calls to [window 
setContentView], so I know this can be done, but I'm not sure it can be 
easily done from an extension. There don't appear to be any easily-used 
public API's for this purpose. I've tried to include "tkMacOSXInt.h" in 
my code, but gcc complains about syntax errors in that file (?). And I'm 
not sure that that adding webkit to the Tk-Cocoa core is such a good idea...

As a result, I'm going to set this aside for a while. I've gotten a 
working build of TkHTML thanks to Georgios Petsasis, so webkit is not 
essential.  Would be nice, however.

--Kevin

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Kevin Walzer
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