[Qt-interest] Netscape plugin APIs X11 dependency

Akio akioolin at gmail.com
Tue Oct 6 18:07:51 CEST 2009


> On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 11:46:26AM +0200, ext Nitin Mahajan wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> As of now I see the NPAPI looks to be tightly coupled with X11 in Qt
>> for Embedded Linux. 
>>
>> If I have a plug-in which renders directly on the frame buffer, how
>> can I integrate that plug-in without involving X11? Basically how can
>> we get rid of X11 dependency in NPAPI?
>>
>> regards
>>
>> -Nitin
> 
> Hi Nitin
> 
> The NPAPI stuff isn't coupled with X11 on embedded linux, it doesn't
> exist :-) 
> 
> Currently you have to patch QtWebKit yourself to do this. We are looking
> into what the possibilities in this area are. Are you writing directly
> to /dev/fb? 
> 
> Is this your own plugin or are you using some 3rdparty plugin (like
> Adobe Flash)?
> 

Hello Anders :

     I'm very wondering about this topic. because I am studying the
     swfdec and swfdec mozilla plugin. is there way to break through
     the dependency from swfdec mozilla plugin?

     let's keep this topic alive :)

Best Regards,
Akio



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