[pygtk] gtk.HTML class nonexistent [was: Re: Computing optimum size of gtkhtml2.View]

[Daniel LaGesse]

So why don't you use pango markup? That will take care of simple
formatting like <b>, colors, etc... I use it, and to use it all you
need is 'import pango'.

http://www.pygtk.org//pygtk2reference/pango-markup-language.html

Check it out.

Daniel

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 14:20, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
<lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
> folks, hi, just an update: i was advised kindly to look at pywebkitgtk - which i
> downloaded and compiled from source, this morning. _wow_ am i dead impressed
> with this project!  the demo browser example ran my javascript-only web site,
> http://lkcl.net and it _nearly_ managed to run my javascript-only site i'm
> developing, http://partyliveonline.com - except it segfaulted after login.
> _wow_ would i have been so impressed if it had worked first time :)  the concept
> of having a standards-compliant browser, integrateable into apps using python...
> _wow_ :)
>
> anyway: i added in pywebkitgtk instead of python-gtkhtml2 and was pleased to
> find that it worked absolutely perfectly to provide [a missing] gtk.HTML-like
> widget.  what i was _less_ impressed with is that it suffers *exactly* the same
> flaw that python-gtkhtml2 has: a widget created with pywebkitgtk *cannot* tell
> you what its width and height is, and so, if you insert it into an app, and the
> app size "shrinks", the HTML - even if it's one line of HTML - gets "chopped off".
>
> there's no enforcement of HTML content "size" communicated back to the
> gtk.Widget "container".
>
> thus, sadly, pywebkitgtk is as useless as python-gtkhtml2 for doing the simple,
> simple job of putting HTML as simple as " < b>hello< /b >" into an application.
>
> also i haven't checked yet if "object_requested" is supported in pywebkitgtk or
> its equivalent - i hope so, because it's absolutely essential functionality .
>
> qt4 has support for "Rich Text" - simple things like "< b >hello< /b >" can be
> detected and displayed, and the size of the box is "enforced" as a minimum width
> and height onto the application.
>
> it's _essential_ that GTK have similar such functionality.  implementing these
> features "outside" of the core gtk widget set - using pygtk2 alone - registers
> on the "awkward to literally impossible" scale.
>
> l.
>
> p.s. for those people on the gtk-devel mailing list, information on the
> context for this message can be found at: http://advogato.org/person/lkcl
> and at http://lkcl.net/pyjamas-desktop - i am porting pyjamas - the
> python-to-javascript compiler - to pygtk2 _and_ pyqt4 _and_ iron-python
> with gtk-sharp _and_ i will be looking at qyoto, at a later date.
> see http://lkcl.net/pyjamas-desktop - pygtk2.tgz for progress on the
> python-gtk2 port.
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
> <luke.leighton at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> ok.  thanks sam.
>>
>> to gtk developers: i'm going to have to terminate work on
>> python-desktop's gkt2 widget set until a solution is available:
>> python-gtkhtml3 or other solution.  it's simply not ok to have widgets
>> that force you to specify both the width and the height, and if you
>> don't do so, they just... don't work.
>>
>> python-gtkhtml2 views, if you specify only the width, the height
>> remains at zero: that's unacceptable.
>>
>> in gtk-sharp, Gtk.HTML works absolutely fine (iirc correctly)
>>
>> l.
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> wrote:
>>> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton writes:
>>>
>>>> sam, hi,
>>>> did you ever receive a reply - or find a solution - to this question?
>>>> for http://lkcl.net/pyjamas-desktop i'm looking for the way to calculate
>>>> a sensible size for gtkhtml2.Views, based on the HTML inside.  at present,
>>>> exactly as you probably found, a popup dialog is created... with zero
>>>> width
>>>> and height.
>>>> only by having set the width to a fixed pixel size is the dialog turning
>>>> out to be 1 pixel high (and 218 pixels wide), and the user application
>>>> chose
>>>> that.
>>>
>>> Nope.
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
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