Re: Idea 1: A HTML browser

[Pedro Ivo Andrade Tavares]

At 17:45 18/2/2001, Kim Shrier wrote:
> You can always write C functions around the C++ code and then invoke
> the C functions from Objective C.  It's tedious but it works.

Actually, there's an easier solution: Most objects in Mozilla are actually 
declared in XPCOM (Cross-Platform Component Object Model) and implemented 
in C++. It's something like CORBA, where there's an IDL definition of the 
object, which is "compiled" by a tool (xpidl) into interface and 
implementation skeleton files.

So, if we build XPCOM support for ObjC, and a xpidl-to-ObjC tool, we can 
call all objects in Mozilla from ObjC. Unfortunately, I don't know of XPCOM 
support for any language other than C++, and it seems to be a complex 
undertaking.

Pedro Ivo Tavares