[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: SWT Browser - context menu & search func

["Grant Gayed" <grant_gayed@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Peter,

> This method adds only the custom menu doesn't it? If I am wrong can you
> give me a small example how to show "official right-click menu" of
> Mozilla, IE etc?

The "official" menu cannot be shown on linux because this is provided by the
containing app (eg.- mozilla, firefox, random eclipse plug-in, etc.), not by
the GRE that is embedded by the Browser.  So you can provide a custom
context menu as previously mentioned, but need the ability to implement
their functions.  Some you can do with current Browser api (including some
less obvious ones that can be achieved with Browser.execute()), others you
currently can't.  Eclipse 3.3 plan item
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=154124 should make it possible
to offer a menu that can invoke any browser functionality that is available
to other embedding apps such as firefox.

> >>3/ Is it possible to force the widget to use Firefox? At least on
Windows
> >>and Linux.

The browser will always use IE on windows.  It can use firefox on linux if a
dynamically-linked one is pointed at, see
http://www.eclipse.org/swt/faq.php#browserlinux .  In reality it doesn't
really matter if you're using mozilla, firefox or xulrunner for embedding on
linux, because it's just the GRE that gets embedded anyways, which is shared
amongst these three apps.

Grant