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Embedding "heavy-weight" objects

Windows
#1

The best way to fit embedded browser in Juce framework is a heavyweight component - i.e. a component which has a windows handle (HWND). Our softwre would get the handle from the component by calling component->getPeer()->getNativeHandle().

However, I have notice that most of Juce components are lightweight and are not associated with Windows structures. Is there any other component that we could use for embedded a large component that requests window control? Maybe with ActiveX control as Juce’s ActiveX component is a heavyweight component??

did that question make sense?

#2

I’d have thought that the ActiveXComponent would do the job for you. There’s a few heavyweight components knocking around, like the QuickTimeComp, and the OpenGLComp, so if you really need to do a custom one, you can look at those to see how they do it.

#3

thanks, jules…I’ll look at those…

reluctant to go activex because we want to make it easy to go cross-platform to the mac…

#4

Well anything you embed will be platform-specific, so whether it’s activex or not probably won’t make much difference.

#5