[vlc-devel] Gui for Mozilla's plugins

Jean-Paul Saman jpsaman at gmail.com
Mon Sep 21 14:44:03 CEST 2009


On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Rafaël Carré <rafael.carre at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:04:36 +0200
> Alexandre Millet <a.millet89 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > - The last solution would be to use native code. This implies that the
> > GUI must be developped one time for each platform and is a pain to
> > maintain.
>
> this looks interesting
>
> I imagine the GUI would be quite simple (buttons, progress bar, slider,
> labels) and there could be a way to factorize toolkit-specific code.
>
> Now another question is which toolkit to use on UNIX?
>

The current mozilla plugin code has a toolbar implementation only for Unix
systems. It uses X11 to draw bitmaps in the plugins output window. You
should start there to improve it and apply a similar strategy for Win32 and
MacOSX systems.

Kind regards,
Jean-Paul Saman
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