On Feb 12, 9:22 am, "Diez B. Roggisch" <de...@nospam.web.de> wrote: > Carbon Man wrote: > > Hi, > > I need to embed a web browser into a python page. I am coming from the MS > > world where I created an app that all of it's interfaces were actually web > > pages rendered in an Internet Explorer activex control. There was a object > > hook that allowed you to call into the host environment from javascript. > > Basically the host environment would receive the documentComplete event > > and call a method in the document's Javascript passing in an object > > reference. That reference would then be available for calls to be made > > from Javascript back into the host environment. > > I am just starting to explore the Pythonic programming jungle and I was > > wondering if there is a way to do something similar that would work > > cross-platform? > > I guess there is much more complexity in it when you start to go across > > o/s platform boundaries. The common web interface would then be Gecko or > >WebKit? So can someone suggest what would be required to build a > > cross-platform Python app that was capable of browsing HTML files, > > receiving events from the browser, and that allows the embedded page to > > call host Python modules from Javascript via an object reference? Or I am > > asking too much :) >
> The only thing that might work is Qt +webkitthat is used as it's browser. you mean "its browser". > Everything else is not cross platform. not quite true - python-hulahop should theoretically compile for win32 - it's just that nobody in their right mind has tried it :) l. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
