[Gnash-dev] plugin works!

[Rob Savoye]

I just got the first version of the plugin working! In experimenting, I 
noticed that if I fork'd the standalone player from Firefox like 
MozPLugger does, the rendered movie would show just fine. The only 
problem was there was no support for events. I just rewrote the 
standalone player to use GTK2+ with GtkGlExt. This handles events and 
menus, so now Gnash has a right-click mouse menu. (an ifdef swaps 
between SDL or GTK support) The menu doesn't do anything yet, but "Quit" 
works.

For some reason gtk_plug() wasn't working the way I thought it should, 
but if I create a new top level window, the movie renders just fine. The 
only problem with this approach is that as you web surf, all Flash movie 
ads become popups... :-(

Another issue is everything is being mirrored as if point 0,0 went from 
the upper left corner to the lower right corner. I imagine that's 
probably got to do with how I setup the window. I'm still cramming GTK 
programming...

Something I discovered that unfortunately would be a big project is that 
since GTK is very event based, I have to grab the events, blow off 
gtk_main() processing, and then poll the gtk event loop directly. This 
is a bit sluggish. Ideally Gnash should be changed to be purely event 
driven (something I've wanted to do for a long time), but this would 
require a major change to how the code is structured I think.

I'll cleanup my code so it's in a form suitable to check in. It's pretty 
ugly right now from lots of trail and error experimenting. The other 
downside is this requires GtkGlExt, which forces a bunch of new 
dependencies like pango, glib, atk, and cairo.

        - rob -