[racket] Extending the Racket GUI with native widgets

The `window<%>' method `get-handle' returns the native widget for a
window. The docs for `get-handle' are out of date, and I pull push a
correction later today: the result for `get-handle' is now an FFI
pointer instead of an integer, and it represents GtkWidget under X.

So, you could create a `panel%' to hold the native Gtk widget. Then,
use `get-handle' on the `panel%' instance to get the parent widget for
the new native widget.

At Wed, 5 Jan 2011 02:05:45 +0100, Thomas Chust wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> is it possible or even straightforward to implement the control<%>
> interface of the Racket GUI libraries using a native widget? I'm
> particularly interested in doing so for the GTK+ based Racket GUI
> libraries.
> 
> More specifically, I'm trying to find out whether it's feasible to
> create a binding to WebKitGTK+ that is properly integrated with the
> rest of the existing GUI libraries. For my present purposes, the easy
> solution to simply stick the WebView widget into a separate top-level
> window unmanaged by the Racket GUI libraries is probably sufficient
> and at least the already running GTK+ event loop would be reused in
> this case, but I would much prefer a cleaner solution.
> 
> Ciao,
> Thomas
> 
> 
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