HtmlViewer

[MISV]

I found this

https://github.com/BerndGabriel/HtmlViewer

which claims Lazarus compability and newer codebase compared to HmlPort conversion http://wiki.freepascal.org/THtmlPort of the original commercial HTML viewer.

However - this does not seem to compile easily on Lazarus 1.6.4 / Carbon. Missing package, missing Mac defines (e.g. fonts) and I seemingly also have errors with defines usage although I do not understand why the error triggers.

Are anyone using HtmlViewer for Lazarus / Mac / Carbon?

[jwdietrich]

Have you contacted the developer of the component?

[lainz]

Try Chrome Embedded Framework, if works for your target platforms is the most advanced viewer you can get.

[MISV]

Try Chrome Embedded Framework, if works for your target platforms is the most advanced viewer you can get.

I thought about this, but I concluded my executable would increase massively in size? (like 100-200mb) But I see others cherry picking what they need.  Maybe I should look into this again... Thanks

[MISV]

Have you contacted the developer of the component?

Just posted two bugs (I believe they are bugs) + the thing mentioned in this post today on the "issues" GitHub forum board.

Offhand, I would say the Renderer is much better than TIpHtmlPanel - still learning it - but got everything working fairly well albeit I had to work around a few issues

[engkin]

I found this

https://github.com/BerndGabriel/HtmlViewer

I just ran its JavaScript demo "FrameDemJavaScriptUsingBesen" using its trunk version. It uses BeRo's BESEN. Needed a few changes to get it to compile. Like adding LCLPlatformDef to HtmlMisc's uses section.

Edit:
Lazarus package is named FrameViewer09.lpk

[MISV]

I found this

https://github.com/BerndGabriel/HtmlViewer

I just ran its JavaScript demo "FrameDemJavaScriptUsingBesen" using its trunk version. It uses BeRo's BESEN. Needed a few changes to get it to compile. Like adding LCLPlatformDef to HtmlMisc's uses section.

Edit:
Lazarus package is named FrameViewer09.lpk

Thank you for you giving me package name

In Lazarus 1.6.4 on Mac I get error

HtmlGlobals.pas(51.7) Error ENDIF without IF(N)DEF and then some more. (Also some with font name constants but that was easily solvable)

I will press on today - thank you

[Thaddy]

If I look at the readme then MACOS is not suppported (maybe yet)

[MISV]

For what it is worth - I got htmlviewer show pretty complex websites on Mac/Sierra Lazaus 1.6.4/Carbon combo tonight. There are a few problems (and seen a Sigsev as well) but my feeling is that it is immensely close at fully working. If the crash could be solved - I think it is a clear upgrade compared to old turbopower solution.

[egsuh]

There were already discussion on this topic.  I'm running it on Win-64.
I got two errors during compilation.

First one is in the file vwPrint.pas, line 435.  DevModeA is unidentified, so I commented the line out.  Strange thing is that this is within conditional compilation, and the line is shadowed, but still there occurs error.

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1. {$if lcl_fullversion >= 1020000}
2.       // DevMode := PrnDev.DevModeA;
3. {$else}

Second error occurs in file HTMLMisc.pas, at line 1259.  lbCarbon, lpQt, etc. are not identified. I used to comment this out, and hadn't any problem yet. But now I added LCLPlatformDef to uses clause, then it compiles fine 

Code: Pascal  [Select][+][-]

1. initialization
2.   htExpectsUTF8 := WidgetSet.LCLPlatform in [lpCarbon, lpQt, lpGTK2, lpWin32];
3.   htExpectsUTF8 := True;