[vlc-devel] Firefox plugin, using XUL?

Jean-Paul Saman jean-paul.saman at planet.nl
Fri Nov 23 11:16:39 CET 2007


Jasper wrote:
> In responce to:
> 
>   "We ask for a bit of comment: are we working in the right direction,
>    and if not what do we do wrong? And furthermore this is the time to
>    point us in a direction concerning the grafics."
> 
> Rafaël Carré wrote:
> " I think that it would be much simpler to use a toolkit library.
>  Can't XUL be used to do that ? It's already in mozilla so no need for
>  an other external library, and it is cross platform  ;) "
> 
> However we discussed the use of XUL and we think it n't be possible to 
> use XUL since it's to high level so we can't bind the grafical buttons 
> to the actual commands in the vlc player. We were thinking about using 
> Qt4. Any objections or comments?

I don't think that is feasible to use qt4 inside mozilla. I would 
suggest to draw the images yourself and listen to mouseclicks/movements 
as reported to you by mozilla.

Gtz,
Jean-Paul Saman.



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