[jdev] Re: HTML display component for C++ on Windows + Jabber

[Jon Phillips]

On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 21:44 +0200, Alexander Gnauck wrote:
> Hi Jon,
> 
> i was fighting with this before too. When you only want to desplay the
> HTML then the IE control would be OK. But when you also wanna use its
> editmode to create HTML messages then it really sucks. because it
> creates really aweful HTML that is not usable.
> The best would to use gecko (mozilla) or some other lightweight (X)HTML
> control.

Right, I'm just not sure if one exists. Oh man, I really don't want to
write a light-weight browser component for MFC! Are you considering
gecko lightweight? What did you finally end up implementing?

Also, any thoughts or examples of use of the IE control for display?

Thanks!

Jon

> 
> Jon Phillips wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Has anyone built a GUI class for a chat window output and input for C++
> > in a Windows programming environment?
> > 
> > All the MFC Windows classes for text, richeditctrl, etc, are junk, and I
> > want to develop a display and text input for html, so you can have
> > images, text with formatting, etc, displayed in a person to person, or
> > group chat window.
> > 
> > Does this make sense, and has anyone developed anything like this?
> > 
> > I have thought about using the MS Internet Explorer COM object, but it
> > is so huge...I think a lighter weight class would be better suited for
> > the task. Advice would be appreciated...thx!
> > 
> > Jon
> > 
> > 
> > Jon
> > 
> 
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