[lazarus] Searching HTML component

[Michael.VanCanneyt at Wisa.be]

On 10 Dec 2002, andrew johnson wrote:

> This was already discussed on the developers list, that we don't want a
> lot of high level overhead and extra depends.. so gecko is probably out,
> and mozilla definitely is. And gtkhtml was already discussed and
> discarded by Mattias because of its GNOME depends.

In that case you have little choice but to write it yourself. I would
suggest a modular approach: A parser with hooks, and a renderer which
uses the parser. The parser could go in the FCL.

If it's any help: The FCL contains a RTF reader which I ported some
years ago. I wrote a RTF panel that displayed the RTF to go with it
(based on TLabel and TCanvas, so that should port easily). If need be
I can dig up the code and send that, you can have a look at it for starters.

Come to think of it, having the RTF panel may be a good idea in itself
for Lazarus.

Michael.