Re: Embedding basics

Benjamin Smedberg <[email protected]> Mon, 07 Nov 2011 08:32:38 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.embedding
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 11/4/2011 1:25 AM, Sunil Kumar wrote:
> I dont want to use Any GUI windows( gtk_window/Window), so I wont have the
> Handle/Pointer to a real window.
> How can I call BaseWindow.initWindow without having a Handle or Pointer to
> real window?
Currently you cannot, a window is required.

For a while Chris Lord was working on a headless ("offscreen") version 
of gecko which did exactly what you want, but as far as I know that 
version is currently unmaintained, see 
http://hg.mozilla.org/incubator/offscreen but also see that the last 
commit was in March 2010.

--BDS