Re: [Gtk2hs-users] Mozilla embedding on windows

[Duncan C. <dun...@wo...>]

On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 14:45 +0100, Radosław Grzanka wrote:
> Hi,
>   I would like to embed mozilla in my haskell application and I've
> found doc page http://haskell.org/gtk2hs/docs/current/Graphics-UI-Gtk-MozEmbed.html
> which would confirm that gtk2hs can do this. However I cannot find
> module for it on windows.
>   On website there is demo for mozembed, however it is missing in
> windows installation also.
> 
>   Is there a way to have mozilla embedding on windows platform or is
> it unsupported and there is no hope?

It's pretty much unsupported. Finding a Gtk+ build of Mozilla for
Windows that provides the GtkMozEmbed component is pretty difficult. The
standard firefox/mozilla builds for Windows use the native widgets
rather than Gtk+.

Googling for gtkmozembed windows gives some useful hits:
http://xullicious.com/gtkmozwin32.php
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=256560
http://polystimulus.com/polystimulus/gtkembedmoz-sharp/

If would seem that the Mono/C# people have looked into this, so that's
another good place to start looking.

It's clearly possible but is not trivial. If you do look into it and if
you do find that it is actually possible and practical I could see about
getting it included in the Gtk2Hs Windows build.

Duncan