PyXPCOM and SVG

[Mark Hammond]

> David LeBlanc
> Are you overlooking the Mozilla active-x control - or is that gecko only?

I've never used this, but I think you are going to find this is an
in-process control.  It will be hosted in the container app, rather than a
remote mozilla.exe firing up.  Further, the control itself generally doesnt
provide the location bar, toolbar, menus and other chrome.

So I think it is a different thing - AFAIK, the active-x control doesn't
provide remote control of mozilla-the-application.

Mark.

> > Johann Höchtl wrote:
> >
> > > Well XUL is of course not my primer as i can always use the wxwindows
> > > widgets. But I thought about the ability to "remote control" mozilla
> > > (maybe gecko and the upcoming SVG features) and therefore I
> > need xpcom, or?
> >
> > There is currently no technique to remote control Mozilla.  xpcom is
> > inprocess only.  There is a bug to add some kind of RPC to xpcom, but I
> > don't think it is really being worked on.  It should be possible to do
> > what you want via embedding though.