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We may turn out to be able to use the xulcreator stuff based on SWT by RJ Keller, I think he's doing stuff that may be reusable. --[[User:AxelHecht|AxelHecht]] 08:06, 25 Aug 2005 (PDT) | We may turn out to be able to use the xulcreator stuff based on SWT by RJ Keller, I think he's doing stuff that may be reusable. --[[User:AxelHecht|AxelHecht]] 08:06, 25 Aug 2005 (PDT) | ||
Just found [http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/ide4laszlo ide4lazlo], which has some interesting screenshots. | |||
== Embed/Reuse XULRunner/Mozilla/Firefox == | == Embed/Reuse XULRunner/Mozilla/Firefox == | ||
Revision as of 16:27, 25 August 2005
It would be very nice to embed XULRunner/Firefox into Eclipse/SWT for XUL preview and/or live editing inside Eclipse.
You can help us by voting for this Eclipse feature Allow Firefox as browser widget.
There are some other feature requests similar to this:
See all eclipse/mozilla related bugs/issues here
XUL WYSIWYG Editor alternatives
Using Visual Editing Framework
The Eclipse Visual Editor project is a vendor-neutral, open development platform supplying frameworks for creating GUI builders, and exemplary, extensible tool implementations for Swing/JFC and SWT/RCP.
Pros: Using this framework it is possible to (re)implement XUL (Layout/Widgets etc) to get (nearly) the same rendering result as gecko.
Cons: The rendered result will not 100% the same as gecko's layout (no real wysiwyg...). Furthermore this solution might not reflect special behaviour of different gecko version (for example canvas element supported/not supported and so on).
We may turn out to be able to use the xulcreator stuff based on SWT by RJ Keller, I think he's doing stuff that may be reusable. --AxelHecht 08:06, 25 Aug 2005 (PDT)
Just found ide4lazlo, which has some interesting screenshots.
Embed/Reuse XULRunner/Mozilla/Firefox
It is (in general) possible to embed a Mozilla/Gecko Window into Eclipse/SWT on every platform supported by Mozilla and SWT.
We could build the WYSIWYG editor as Multipage editor and embed the Mozilla XUL Window as WYSIWYG Preview.
Pros: True WYSIWYG. Depending of the used Mozilla version the preview would reflect the real XUL capabilities of the used Mozilla. Relatively small amount of code for the editor.
Cons: Currently not implemented. May result in problems if the displayed XUL page contains javascript modifying the user interface at runtime.
Possible workarounds:
- Use of a transient xul layer above the real XUL page (can be done by xul code injection while loading the xul file in the preview).
- Rendering of the xul page into a canvas element which is then displayed in the xul preview. In this case no user defined javascript worries the rendered result.