MFC: Use firefox in MFC

[msn92]

Hi everyone I'm interested in coding programs that work with the web. Most of the times, I need to host some web-browser in my application and use CHtmlView for it. I would like to try to host Firefox in my applications too. Since it is opensource, is not it possible to use it in the mfc application? Thank you in advance.

[wangningyu]

May be it doesn't suppsoed. :)

[Andrew Brock]

There is an article at https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Gecko_Embedding_Basics[^] which covers the basics on embedding the gecko engine into a program. The fact that you are using MFC is meaningless, you may need to make a wrapper class, but it will work. You may also want to look at the SpiderMonkey[^] article too, as that may help if you are wanting to use JavaScript.

[Lost User]

You could possibly take the source code of Firefox and extract the parts that make up the actual browser control and include that in your application, but I do not think it would be an easy task.

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[Maximilien]

msn92 wrote:

Since it (firefox) is opensource, is not it possible to use it in the mfc application?

is your program open source ?

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