Re: embed abiword into java app

From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Tue Nov 19 2002 - 08:59:19 EST

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    On mardi, nov 19, 2002, at 14:26 Europe/Paris, David Cypers wrote:

    > Hello
    >
    > I need to embed AbiWord into a java application. Since JDK1.3, any
    > native UI component can be placed on an AWT Canvas. This is done by
    > overriding the java method paint(..) by a native implementation, which
    > renders the native UI-component.
    >
    > Can somebody tell me if
    >
    > a) it is possible to wrap AbiWord into a DLL (and how?)

    Some people (OEOne.com) have done abimoz, an AbiWord embedded into a
    Mozilla plug-in.

    > b) what the main() entry point for the application is
    > c) how you initiate the AbiWord GUI. (so I can override the paint(..)
    > method with a call to that code

    Look at that the code mentionned above.
    http://abimoz.mozdev.org/

    > I also have one major drawback, I'm not familiar with C++ and
    > make-files, and I can't find any make's for the Win32 environment (I
    > develop on a win2k machine).
    >

    Make should work on Windows to.
    Otherwise you have a module called MSVC6 that provide VC6 project file
    if you really want that.

    Hub

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