Re: Embedding Mozilla with JavaXPCOM and AWT/Swing

Thanks for your help but, actually, I have a Swing application and I want to
try to embed a SWT browser into it. So, the problem is not embedding
Swing/awt in swt but swt in Swing/awt. I don't manage to find a
documentation on that point.


Grant Gayed wrote:
> 
> Embedding swing/awt in swt is well supported on all platforms.  Links:
> 
> http://www.eclipse.org/swt/faq.php#swinginswt
> http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.swt.snippets/src/org/eclipse/swt/snippets/Snippet135.java?view=co
> http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.swt.snippets/src/org/eclipse/swt/snippets/Snippet154.java?view=co
> http://www.eclipse.org/articles/article.php?file=Article-Swing-SWT-Integration/index.html
> 
> Grant
> 
> 
> "Greg Bowyer" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Sorry had to spend a bit of time thinking about this, I am actually not
>> a GUI programmer by trade :S
>>
>> Going back to hooky ways to pull this off, it might be possible to embed
>> swing / awt inside SWT (I know this is a bit of a reverse of
>> "Am I right or is there a way to add a SWT component to a Swing app?" )
>>
>> I am unsure about how well supported it is across platforms, and if it
>> has issues with any advanced usages of swing, but otherwise it might be
>> worth a look
>>
>>
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/FAQ_How_do_I_embed_AWT_and_Swing_inside_SWT%3F
>> and
>>
> http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Swing-SWT-Integration/files/example-javadoc/swingintegration/example/EmbeddedSwingComposite.html
>>
>> Julien1311 wrote:
>> > I already saw that I could use SWT. The problem is that I have to embed
> my
>> > browser in a already-done Swing application. I was planning to embed
>> the
>> > browser in a JPanel and to add the JPanel to the Swing app. I think
>> it's
>> > impossible to do such a thing with SWT. I've read that it's impossible
> to
>> > add SWT components to a Swing app, that's why I was looking for a way
>> to
> do
>> > it with Swing/AWT.
>> >
>> > Am I right or is there a way to add a SWT component to a Swing app?
>> >
>> > Thanks for your help
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Greg Bowyer wrote:
>> >> You can always have xulrunner powering the GUI as it sees fit, and
>> call
>> >> back into java via JavaXPCom
>> >>
>> >> An alternative might be to look at SWT and how the eclipse folk are
>> >> doing xulrunner integration as this will work in all the major
> platforms
>> >> (ala
>> >>
> http://javier.pedemonte.us/blog/2007/05/22/mozilla-everywhere-in-swt-33/)
>> >>
>> >> As far as I am aware you *only* need to use JNI if you need to
>> handroll
>> >> the integration to the windowing / widget library yourself
>> >> Sylvain Ferriol wrote:
>> >>> Julien1311 wrote:
>> >>>> Thanks for your help.
>> >>>> Actually, I'm looking for something which could work on all the OS
>> >>>> supported
>> >>>> by XULRunner. I didn't manage to find any example but some
>> >>>> explanations on
>> >>>> the fact that I should use JNI.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Could you explain why this code only works on Windows?
>> >>> because under linux, swing uses X11 library but xulrunner uses GTK
>> >>> library. So xulrunner needs a GTK window ID as parent window, not X11
>> >>> window ID otherwise it crashs
>> >>>> Is there somebody who has some other examples which could help me?
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Thanks
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Sylvain Ferriol wrote:
>> >>>>> Julien1311 wrote:
>> >>>>>> Hi everybody,
>> >>>>> hi julien
>> >>>>>> I'm trying to embed XULRunner into my Java application using
>> >>>>>> JavaXPCOM.
>> >>>>>> It
>> >>>>>> seems really complicated for me. Is there someone who has already
>> >>>>>> tried
>> >>>>>> to
>> >>>>>> do such a thing and who could give me its sources or a link toward
> an
>> >>>>>> example of embedded browser with AWT/Swing ? At least, for the JNI
>> >>>>>> part.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>> you do not have to use jni, i attach my code for using javaXPCOM
>> >>>>> using Swing but it works only under windows :(
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> this code works with xulrunner 1.9
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> an example for using JWeb class:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>     File grePath = new File("src/lib/xulrunner");
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>     JWeb.start(grePath.getAbsolutePath());
>> >>>>>     jweb = new JWeb();
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>     JFrame frame = new JFrame();
>> >>>>>     JPanel panel = new JPanel();
>> >>>>>     panel.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
>> >>>>>     panel.add(jweb, BorderLayout.CENTER);
>> >>>>>     frame.getContentPane().add(panel);
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>             frame.setVisible(true);
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>     nsIWebProgress webProgress = (nsIWebProgress)
>> >>>>> jweb.getInterface(nsIWebProgress.NS_IWEBPROGRESS_IID);
>> >>>>>     nsIWebNavigation webNavigation = (nsIWebNavigation)
>> >>>>> jweb.getInterface(nsIWebNavigation.NS_IWEBNAVIGATION_IID);
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>     WebProgressListener aWebProgressListener = new
>> >>>>> WebProgressListener();
>> >>>>>     webProgress.addProgressListener(aWebProgressListener,
>> >>>>>                  nsIWebProgress.NOTIFY_ALL);
>> >>>>>    
>> webNavigation.loadURI("http://www.debian.org",0,null,null,null);
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>> Thanks in advance.
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