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HTTP Browser Renderer

Started by Prozak Dec 30, 2004 at 8:35 AM 7 replies 1.3k views

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Dec 30, 2004 at 8:35 AM

Is there any open-source browser renderer class, to which I pass a DC (drawing context), or something, and it will render http data? And can I get it to render data I have in memory already, and not connect to some website? Thanks for any pointers on this [wink]

Wan

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Wan

Dec 30, 2004 at 9:04 AM

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Is there any open-source browser renderer class, to which I pass a DC (drawing context), or something, and it will render http data?

I only know Microsoft's IHTMLRenderer interface, but that would not be open-source.

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And can I get it to render data I have in memory already, and not connect to some website?

I don't see why not. A renderer just renders, it doesn't care where the original data came from.

Shadowdancer

Dec 30, 2004 at 9:08 AM

Have a look at Mozilla's Gecko. I don't know if this is the best link, but it should be a start.

SiCrane

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SiCrane

Dec 30, 2004 at 11:58 AM

You can embed Gecko, and with some contortions, get it to render to an arbitrary device context. here are some examples of embedded Gecko projects, including an ActiveX control that's fairly painless to use. IIRC, the ActiveX control's webpage has an example of loading a page from data.

Promit

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Promit

Dec 30, 2004 at 12:05 PM

KHTML might be another good choice. Unfortunately, it isn't actually ready on Win32.

Andrew Russell

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Andrew Russell

Dec 30, 2004 at 4:54 PM

wxWidgets has a HTML control you may find useful. It's a cripled-LGPL licence - the best kind of open source.

golopart

Dec 30, 2004 at 7:43 PM

I don't want to start a puney post about it so: have you heard of anybody implementing css or plugin css/html interpreter into a game engine to do gui's? The idea just seems good.

Grizwald

Dec 30, 2004 at 7:48 PM

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Original post by golopart
I don't want to start a puney post about it so: have you heard of anybody implementing css or plugin css/html interpreter into a game engine to do gui's? The idea just seems good.

isn't that overkill though?
any XML-based layout would be just as easy to use, and there are so many nice parsers out there.

I believe this is how mozilla firefox does its GUI (or something similar).

golopart

Dec 30, 2004 at 8:45 PM

But wouldn't you still need CSS to put in all the neat styles? It would work with xml.

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