[webkit-help] Using Windows WebKit COM object?

[Thomas Brodt]

WebKit provides access through COM interfaces, that is right so far, but 
doesn't publish them as dispatch interfaces AFAIK.

But the interface itself is working fine, based on COM, you just cannot 
explore it through a dispatch interface. What you can do is get your 
first reference to the WebView interface by calling 
DllGetClassObject(IID_WebView) and the dig through the various 
interfaces by invoking access methods on this, and creating a 
IID_WebURLRequest to invoke a web page access to show in WebKit. As my 
binding is not for C or C++, I probably can't help you out with any code 
examples.

HTH
Thomas




Am 22.03.2010 22:28, schrieb Russ Schnapp:
> My client needs to incorporate an SVG-enabled web browser into their 
> application, which had to run on Windows as well as MacOS X.  The 
> Windows WebKit port seemed like an obvious answer...
>
> I followed the instructions for building WebKit on Windows. Lo and 
> behold, it built without a hitch, and run-safari worked fine.
>
> Inspecting WebKit/WebKit/win/Interfaces/*, I was pleased to find a 
> raft of idl files, which gave me the impression that WebKit.dll is a 
> COM object, containing various interfaces that can be discovered at 
> runtime, and that can be used by scripts and other programs to 
> incorporate WK functionality.
>
> I'm able to run regsvr32 on WekKit.dll without any errors.
>
> HOWEVER...
>
> So far as I can tell, WekKit.dll isn't really recognized as a Windows 
> COM object.  Using Visual Studio 2005, if I try to use the "Add Class 
> from Typelib Wizard", it finds a WebKit Type Library, but lists NO 
> interfaces.
>
> And when googling for "WebKit Windows COM", the only relevant example 
> I find is a 2-year-old rudimentary bit of exposition on blogspot.com, 
> by a Japanese fellow.  His example meets my expectations for usage, 
> but I find no actual, runnable examples.  I suspect he may have 
> stopped at exposition and never got to implementation.
>
> Can anyone tell me whether WebKit's Windows COM stuff actually works, 
> and I'm just doing something wrong?  Is it only kinda sorta COM, and I 
> will have to adapt the COMPtr wrapper examples as in 
> WebKit/WebKitTools/WebKitAPITest/tests/WebViewDestruction.cpp?  And 
> therefore, I won't have access to WebKit functions in, e.g., Perl 
> without writing some glue code?
>
> Frankly, I'd much prefer to be told that I'm way off base, and 
> overlooking something really simple and obvious.
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