Re: [moz-bonobo-list] a new mozbonobo plugin

[Jean Bréfort]

Christian Glodt wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 10:41, Jean Bréfort wrote: 
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> > Luca Padovani wrote:
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> > > Now the other question arises naturally: is it possible to
> > > "access" mozilla from the plugin? For instance, is there any way to make
> > > mozilla load a new page when, say, you click in the plugin on something
> > > that is, or should behavs like, a link? This is a very common situation
> > > in MathML, SVG or even PDF documents.
> > >      
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> That's very much possible, and Macromedia Flash does it all the time.
> In fact, there are quite a few functions available to the plugin, see:
> http://devedge.netscape.com/library/manuals/2002/plugin/1.0/npn_api.html
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> Also, the plugin can execute arbitrary javascript code in the browser
> by posting a "javascript:" url.
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> > This is a very interesting question. The answer should be yes of course 
> > but it will need some new code in mozilla-bonobo, I suppose.
> >    
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> Yes, some more code will be needed.
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> > If nobody else writes that, I'll do it when I'll be back home (september).
> >    
> The main problem that I see is the interface definition. Is there a
> standard Bonobo interface for things that change the URL of their
> container? I don't think that's part of Control or Embeddable.
>
> If that means that we need to design our own Bonobo interface, then we
> need to be very careful - interface design is hard. In that case I'd
> also like to have input from other hackers (gnome-hackers list for
> example).
>
> [snip]
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I don't think we have to write a new interface. The use of the 
propertybag should be enough. My idea is that we can define a property 
such as "nav-url" which on change would be transmitted to mozilla. In 
mozilla-bonobo, what have to be done is add a listener for the property.
Next, we have to transmit the url from the viewer to the plugin. i have 
not yet studied how this can be done.

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> > Here is the sample taken from the HTML 4.01 recommendation:
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> >    
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> > > <P>
> > > <OBJECT id="clock1"
> > >       classid="clsid:663C8FEF-1EF9-11CF-A3DB-080036F12502"
> > >       data="data:application/x-oleobject;base64, /...base64 data.../">
> > >   A clock.
> > > </OBJECT>
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > However, I could not make anything analog work with mozilla and 
> > mozilla-bonobo.
> >    
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> It would be worthwile to know if it works with other browsers and other
> plugins...
May be I missed something ;-)

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