[wxPython-users] Re: embedding PHP to a GUI

[Christopher Barker]

Vincent Hirth wrote:

>> wxHtmlWindow to display formatted text -- it's an easy way to do that, 
>> but in that case, the html is an implementation detail.
> 
> Isn't it what the ie.py plug-in does? 

not really. ie.py embeds ie in a wxWidgets app. It then is in charge of 
what's going on. wxHtmlWindow is written in wx itself, so it is far more 
integrated with your app -- you can put wxWidgets on the page, you can 
intercept clicks in links, you can interact with and control the 
rendering eengine as much as you like -- it's very powerful but NOT a 
full featured browser -- no support for CSS or javascript being the most 
obvious missing features.

If you really want a browser, then embed a browser -- if you want an 
easy way to display formatted text, images, etc, then wxHtml is great, 
but rather than thinking it as an html renderer, think of it as  rich 
text display that happens to use html as it's formatting language.

>>Somewhere out there is
>> some code that wraps these with a common interface, but I don't' 
>> remember where at the moment.
> 
> I think this is what I do - I'm using ie.py from Jeff Grimmett. So you're
> saying that the same kind of script may exist for Mac with Safary? 

I found it -- it's in Documancer -- go poke around in that source, and 
you should find it.

http://documancer.sourceforge.net/

-Chris