how to implement xembed in emacs?

how to implement xembed in emacs?

[joakim]

Hello,

I'm interested in the possibility of using xembed in emacs:

http://standards.freedesktop.org/xembed-spec/xembed-spec-0.5.html

There are patches to make emacs embaddable in other applications:

http://timo.stc.cx/tmp/emacs/

which seems nice and worthwile of inclusion in emacs, but I'm in this
case talking about embedding other applications in emacs.

I'm thinking of doing a proof-of-concept hack that would implement a
new dummy image type. The image would simply not render. Instead it
would read a window id from a file and call XReparentWindow, with the
coordinates given by emacs to the image. This scheme might work
somewhat, but:

How can this be achieved properly in emacs?


-- 
Joakim Verona

Re: how to implement xembed in emacs?

[Jan Djärv]

There already exist a patch for this from Timo Savola.  It has not been 
installed yet, but will be once unicode2 becomes HEAD.

	Jan D.


joakim@verona.se skrev:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm interested in the possibility of using xembed in emacs:
> 
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/xembed-spec/xembed-spec-0.5.html
> 
> There are patches to make emacs embaddable in other applications:
> 
> http://timo.stc.cx/tmp/emacs/
> 
> which seems nice and worthwile of inclusion in emacs, but I'm in this
> case talking about embedding other applications in emacs.
> 
> I'm thinking of doing a proof-of-concept hack that would implement a
> new dummy image type. The image would simply not render. Instead it
> would read a window id from a file and call XReparentWindow, with the
> coordinates given by emacs to the image. This scheme might work
> somewhat, but:
> 
> How can this be achieved properly in emacs?
> 
> 

Re: how to implement xembed in emacs?

[joakim]

Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> writes:

> There already exist a patch for this from Timo Savola.  It has not
> been installed yet, but will be once unicode2 becomes HEAD.

Yes, its the patch I mention below. However, as far as I can
determine, the patch implements the case of embedding emacs in other
applications, not the case of embedding other applications in
emacs. Am I wrong?

>
> 	Jan D.
>
>
> joakim@verona.se skrev:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm interested in the possibility of using xembed in emacs:
>>
>> http://standards.freedesktop.org/xembed-spec/xembed-spec-0.5.html>
>> There are patches to make emacs embaddable in other applications:
>>
>> http://timo.stc.cx/tmp/emacs/>
>> which seems nice and worthwile of inclusion in emacs, but I'm in this
>> case talking about embedding other applications in emacs.
>>
>> I'm thinking of doing a proof-of-concept hack that would implement a
>> new dummy image type. The image would simply not render. Instead it
>> would read a window id from a file and call XReparentWindow, with the
>> coordinates given by emacs to the image. This scheme might work
>> somewhat, but:
>>
>> How can this be achieved properly in emacs?
>>
>>

-- 
Joakim Verona

Re: how to implement xembed in emacs?

[joakim]

Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> writes:

> joakim@verona.se skrev:
>> Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> writes:
>>
>>> There already exist a patch for this from Timo Savola.  It has not
>>> been installed yet, but will be once unicode2 becomes HEAD.
>>
>> Yes, its the patch I mention below. However, as far as I can
>> determine, the patch implements the case of embedding emacs in other
>> applications, not the case of embedding other applications in
>> emacs. Am I wrong?
>>
>
> Ah, I didn't read carefully enough.  You are not wrong.  I don't know
> if there is some legal issues with this, but you should check that out
> first.

There should be no problem if all applications use compatible
licenses, right? So there should be only technical issues.

GTK has support for embedding:

http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/unstable/GtkSocket.html

using that method would mean that native gtk widgets should be implemented
inside an emacs buffer.


>
> 	Jan D.

-- 
Joakim Verona

Re: how to implement xembed in emacs?

[Jan Djärv]

joakim@verona.se skrev:
> Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> writes:
> 
>> There already exist a patch for this from Timo Savola.  It has not
>> been installed yet, but will be once unicode2 becomes HEAD.
> 
> Yes, its the patch I mention below. However, as far as I can
> determine, the patch implements the case of embedding emacs in other
> applications, not the case of embedding other applications in
> emacs. Am I wrong?
> 

Ah, I didn't read carefully enough.  You are not wrong.  I don't know if there 
is some legal issues with this, but you should check that out first.

	Jan D.