[Lazarus] PBear and Gecko SDK components in Lazarus..

[Luiz Americo Pereira Camara]

Michael Van Canneyt escreveu:
> On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, dominique at savagesoftware.com.au wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi all,
>>   From reading this thread...
>> http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,6158.15.html
>>
>> It seems that Phil had done some work in getting PBear working with
>> Lazarus. Does anyone know who Phil is, and if this is now available from
>> SVN?
>>
>> I am interested in both PBear and GeckoSDK working with Lazarus apps,
>> particularly on Windows and Mac OS X.
>> Currently I have an application which uses PBear with Delphi on Windows and
>> it works really well. Having it work on Mac OS X with Lazarus/FreePascal
>> would be the easiest porting route, but I'm willing to consider GeckoSDK as
>> an alternative just to ensure cross-platform browser support.
>>     
>
> I tried GeckoSDK once, but I never got it to work. Compiling was not a problem,
> but it never worked correctly; The first call to initialize Gecko invariably 
> crashed the application.
>
> You might be better off trying to fix PBear. I use it myself, and IMHO it should
> be easy to port.
>
>   

Is not that easy. It uses the windows specific (GlobalAlloc etc) 
functions to manage memory, some asm, specific bitmap functions.  I 
started to port it but stopped since is not a priority to me and i still 
think that webkit is the best way to go. Unfortunatelly, at the time i 
looked (~six monthes ago) building and using webkit under win32 was not 
straightforward although possible with some work.

Luiz