Re: moving xwidget-webkit to WPE

[joakim@verona.se]

Noé Lopez via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
writes:

> Hi,
>
> I've been testing with having a simple GtkButton/GtkLabel as an xwidget,
> and it seems the event handling functions (for example
> window_coords_from_toplevel) are expecting xwidget->widget_osr to be a
> GdkWindow.
>
> This is weird to me, as I understand xwidget->widgetwindow_osr is
> already a GtkOffscreenWindow and contains xwidget->widget_osr. Why have
> a window in a window?
>
> For WPE I think I will use GtkDrawingArea which doesn't cause any issues
> so I shouldn't need to change anything on this end, but I wonder if it
> is a limitations of xwidgets or just something that you didn't need to
> implement because the GTK WebkitView is a window.
>
> All the best,
> Noé Lopez

FWIW the original idea of xwidgets was to allow for different widget
types.

Some rambling notes from way back about this are here:
https://github.com/jave/xwidget-aux

There was some code to test xwidgets sliders, buttons etc, and also an
attempt at a generic gobject elisp bridge.

That being said, the emacs maintainers have improved the code a lot
since then, so those notes are just a historical curiosity now.

Regards,
Joakim
>
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Joakim Verona
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