Re: how to implement xembed in emacs?

[joakim@verona.se]

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.

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Joakim Verona