Lets create a PCLinuxOS webkit browser (python)

[Hootiegibbon]

Folks,

everybody is doing great, I do think that for the purposes of this thread and to track the creation/improvement of this browser that we need to focus on the one main script drawing in what we can from others, and learning lessons as we go, from Taco's script and examples we find elsewhere for inpiration

I have been trying to look at various ways to make our life a little easier and taking on board what Neal posted earlier in the thread about mechanize

I found the following sample of a browser released under the GPL3 which I think Neal will be especially interested in, I suspect we may get some answers from it.

The link is  http://gitorious.org/python-webkit-mechanize-browser

I have yet to attempt to try this but will as time allows, it sounds like it may assist .

Jase

[Neal ManBear]

Thanks, Jase. Their "git" links are broken. You have to click on the "Source Tree" button and look on the right for the tar.gz download. Then you have to jump through a few hoops to extract it. I hope their coding skills are better than their "git" skills or their setting of permissions on a downloadable file.

Any road, I'll have a look to see if there is anything useful.

[Hootiegibbon]

Thanks, Jase. Their "git" links are broken. You have to click on the "Source Tree" button and look on the right for the tar.gz download. Then you have to jump through a few hoops to extract it. I hope their coding skills are better than their "git" skills or their setting of permissions on a downloadable file.

Any road, I'll have a look to see if there is anything useful.

HeHe, I can get as far as using the 'example.py' - which tabs ok ,ut lacks the flare of Hammer - I tried to see what is differnt but failed to do so, DrPython complains about the back button...

Jase

[Neal ManBear]

Yea. There seems to be some "differences" in their coding. Still, there may be something in this that could be hacked into our code. Maybe.

[Neal ManBear]

For those wanting an updated hammer to look over:
http://nbrks.com/hammer/PCLinuxOS_Hammer.py-0.0.1.tar.xz

This can be extracted with file roller or right-click > extract in PCManFM. Ark should be able to extract it; other archiving tools, too.

Remember, this is still an early version of the browser.

Changes:
Back, forward and home right-click and buttons function. (The second home button is meant to be a new tab button. )

Problems:
New tab button is home button.
Some links still not working.
Edit: Tabs function does not work.

I've probably missed other things. I'm too tired now to find more or to sort out these problems. Any assistance with correcting these would be appreciated.

Still to do:
Create Menu Bar -File, Edit, History, Bookmarks and such.
Create hidden directory/files for settings and bookmarks.

[Archie]

Thanks, Neal and Jase and everyone involved in this project... for the time and code that you all had pitched in to bring to PCLinuxOS its own webkit browser. I'm definitely one of its fervent tester.

[Taco.22]

Neal,
I renamed the tab button on my copy, but can't get the tab function to work.

Jase,
The script at http://gitorious.org/python-webkit-mechanize-browser is the same as the one that I got from the pywebkitgtk demo.  The code is posted on my reply #136.  The script I posted in reply #178 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18945176/tabbed_browser2.py is the one I have installed the (non-working!) buttons onto the toolbar.  The tabs and right-click menu work, and I have done what I can with the back button, but the answer to the error "TypeError: go_back_requested_cb() takes exactly 1 argument (2 given)" must, I hope, be somewhere in the script.  If we can find it then we can code up the other buttons you will have a webkit browser with both buttons AND tabs.  So far it seems to be one OR the other.  The other option is to not have buttons other than tab and include the home command in the right-click menu.
 

[Neal ManBear]

Neal,
I renamed the tab button on my copy, but can't get the tab function to work.

Oops! I forgot to say that tabs would not work under "Problems." The code will work as a single frame browser only at this time.

[Hootiegibbon]

Neal,

Great stuff, I had a chance to stab away at this, we now has a '+' and it now spawns instances of it self..... but not in tabs yet

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6031011/PCLinuxOS_Hammer_hootie.py

Jase

[Neal ManBear]

Jase,
That's good. 
The reason that the tab button is opening new windows is that the code is set up as a single frame browser. I'm working on it.

[ongoto]

Taco.22

Spent some time on TabbedBrowser2.  Got buttons working here.  Needs testing.

http://www.box.net/shared/9u450ely3t

[Sproggy]

Taco.22

Spent some time on TabbedBrowser2.  Got buttons working here.  Needs testing.

http://www.box.net/shared/9u450ely3t

just tested this and works really well ... nicely done ... looks like this should be incorporated in Hammer

[gseaman]

Taco.22

Spent some time on TabbedBrowser2.  Got buttons working here.  Needs testing.

http://www.box.net/shared/9u450ely3t

Works well, here!

Galen

[Taco.22]

Bravo

Well done ongoto:  where would we be without you . 

What's next?

[Neal ManBear]

Bravo

Well done ongoto:  where would we be without you . 

What's next?

+1

I renamed it to PCLinuxOS_Hammer and set the default page to http://www.pclinuxos.com/

http://nbrks.com/hammer/PCLinuxOS_Hammer.py-0.0.1.1.tar.xz