[webkit-gtk] WebKit2, WebProcess and platformPageClient

[Carlos Garcia Campos]

El Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:12:16 +0200
Łukasz Ślachciak <lukasz.slachciak at gmail.com> escribió:
> Hello All.

Hi, 

> Recently I was investigating how clipboard works in WebKit2 GTK.
> In fact it doesn't work ;-)
> 
> Copying text to clipboard works (because
> gtk_clipboard_get_for_display is called) but pasting causes just
> GTk-critical errors (because helper->getCurrentClipboard(frame) is
> called).
> 
> The problem is that we are missing in WebKit2 
> WebChromeClient::platformPageClient() implementation.

Yes, because there's no view widget in the web process. 

> it is called by widgetFromFrame() method.
> 
> I'm thinking how to resolve this problem.
> Should we implement something like:
> PlatformPageClient WebChromeClient::platformPageClient() const
> {
>      return GTK_WIDGET(webView());
> }
> But this is WebProcess and webView() returns 0 here.
> 
> Should we try to return widget at UIProcess site?
> Any ideas?

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65252

> I see that platformPageClient() is called many times so this is not 
> clipboard problem only.

Please, file bug reports for other uses of platformPageclient() in the
web process. 

> 
> Regards
> 
> Lukasz Slachciak

Thanks for reporting, 
-- 
Carlos Garcia Campos
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