217660 - Implement simple embedding interface

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core Graveyard :: Embedding: APIs, defect)

Description

[Adam Lock]

Writing an embedding application is a major pain because creating a chrome
object is horribly complicated. Create a simple embedding object which does the
hard work, implementing the umpteen interfaces with a simple callback interface
when it needs the client to do something.

Comment 1

[Adam Lock]

Attachment: nsSimpleEmbedding.cpp

Work in progress. nsSimpleEmbedding.cpp implements nsISimpleEmbedding and the N
other embedding interfaces and calls out to nsISimpleEmbeddingUI when it has
to.

Comment 2

[Adam Lock]

Attachment: nsSimpleEmbedding.h

Header file

Comment 3

[Adam Lock]

Attachment: nsISimpleEmbedding.idl

Definitions of nsISimpleEmbedding and nsISimpleEmbeddingUI. The embedder would
create the object via NS_CreateSimpleEmbedding() supplying their own
nsISimpleEmbeddingUI impl as one of the args. The simple embedding object has a
method for creating a webbrowser and will call out to the UI with any
notifications etc.

Comment 4

[Adam Lock]

Attachment: nsSimpleEmbedding.cpp

Updated version

Comment 5

[Adam Lock]

Attachment: nsISimpleEmbedding.idl

Updated with new methods for nsISimpleEmbedding for easy resizing operations.
The issue of window creation needs more thought.

Comment 6

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Marking a bunch of bugs in the "Embedding: APIs" component INCOMPLETE in preparation to archive that component. If I have done this incorrectly, please reopen the bugs and move them to a more correct component as we don't have "embedding" APIs any more.