[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Need browser functionality without using sys

[Christian Riedel <sarek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everybody.

I am searching for a way to achieve the following: I want to display a 
small "in-program browser" to display simple HTML files.

At first I tried swt.browser.Browser but that didn't work very well. 
Under Linux the system's browser is only envoked properly, if certain 
environment variables are set accordingly (e.g. MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME). Even 
when this env-var is set, I still could imagine situations, where 
embedding the native browser would fail. For example if people only have 
Konqueror or only Opera installed.

For this reason I want to be completely platform independent (and 
independet of any other external programs that have to be installed).
I was thinking of something similar to JEditorPane in SWING that could 
be used to display HTML files and more importantly to allow hyperlinks 
to work.

So far I have not found a way to achieve this with any widget in the SWT 
package.

Some guys suggested I should use SWING's JEditorPane and use the 
AWT/SWING-SWT-Bridge to include it in my program. This is no option 
either as this bridge needs Java 1.5 to work under Linux and for certain 
other reasons I have to stick with 1.4.x

Can you suggest anything that allows me to display HTML files (if 
possible with images included) and use the hyperlinks to navigate 
between several pages?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

TIA

Christian
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