Subject: Re: Embedding and linking in Linux
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Jun 12 2000 - 16:47:02 CDT
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Joaquín Cuenca Abela wrote:
>
> I will try to upgrade my (very) old branch of AbiWord with bonobo support to
> the actual cvs tree when I finish my exams.
>
> Really, the bonobo stuff is very simple, the problems come from the AbiWord
> side :
>
> * for embeding, the GdkDrawable that uses the view to show the doc has to be
> converted to something that can embed a widget (a GtkLayout, for instance), or
> the gr/unix stuff has to be expanded to make possible the embedding of widgets
> (in my branch I converted the GdkDrawable to a GtkLayout... a 1 hour work, but
> it flicker too much... I will need to take a closer look at the GtkLayout code).
>
> * to be embeded (for instance, a mailer may wants to embed a AbiWord view to
> show a Word document), the GdkDrawable (or whatever) + the scrollbars, rulers,
> etc. have to be converted in a real widget.
>
This is really cool and interesting. I'm looking forward to seeing your
code and helping out with it. I want to use abi to read read my mail and
get previews of word documents.
Cheers
Martin
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