wxWebConnect 1.0 released: web browser library for wxWidgets
Benjamin Williams
Kirix is pleased to announce the availability of wxWebConnect -- a
library for wxWidgets that enables developers to quickly integrate
advanced web browser capabilities.
It wraps up functionality exposed by the Mozilla Foundation's Gecko
engine (XULRunner) into a set of user-friendly classes to: embed
browser controls, search web content, print web pages, interact with
the DOM, implement custom content handling for different MIME types,
issue POST calls using the current browser state, etc. Notably, with
this library you can also embed all of your favorite Firefox browser
plug-ins into your application.
With other libraries in the past, embedding a web browser control has
proven a daunting task, often involving compiling seemingly countless
sub-dependencies. We've gone out of our way to make sure that getting
a browser control up and running in your application is as easy as
possible.
More information can be found at the wxWebConnect project page
(http://www.kirix.com/labs/wxwebconnect.html). A short demo video and
some screenshots can be found here
(http://www.kirix.com/labs/wxwebconnect/screenshots.html)
We've released the full source code under the wxWindows license, so
please go ahead and use this library in your own applications freely.
Comments and criticisms are welcome.
All the best,
Benjamin I. Williams
Kirix Corporation (http://www.kirix.com)