[wxperl-users] Extra wrappy bits for Wx::Mozilla and Wx::WebKit

[Dan S. <da...@si...>]

Okay, so I've been doing some fiddling with my app to test some of 
the fancier HTML rendering capabilities of the non-WxHTMLWindow HTML 
widgets (mozilla and webkit) and I hit what I'd consider a pretty big 
annoyance -- these things aren't drop-in replacements for 
WxHTMLWindow.

That is, the basic HTML option in Wx is a window, while WxMozilla and 
WxWebKit are both controls. Can't swap in one for another. (And yeah, 
I know, the method names are different, but that's easy enough to 
deal with)

Anyway, since I wrote both the Wx::Mozilla and Wx::WebKit wrappers, I 
can make things a little different. The question here is, what'd be 
best? Would it be better to:

1) Have Wx::Mozilla and Wx::WebKit widgets be windows or panels, and 
basically be compatible with WxHTMLWindow in usage? (Which'd make the 
perl versions different than the underlying C++ widgets)

2) Add in a compatibility class in the distributions that provides a 
window or panel version of the widgets in addition to the control 
version they are by default

3) Leave it as is and fix it in my app shims since nobody much cares anyway. :)

I'll admit to being tempted towards option #2, with some 
WxHTML-compatible methods thrown in as an extra (WebKit has 
SetPageSource rather than SetPage to send HTML to the widget, for 
example) but I'm not sure if that's really the best way to go about 
it.

Suggestions'd be greatly appreciated, thanks. :)
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				Dan

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