XEMBED, Mono and OpenOffice.org

In my last post I talked about the hack I did to get some Java applets running in an OpenOffice.org docking window.

I played a little more with the code and managed to get a XEMBED socket running in an OpenOffice.org docking window. The picture below shows an OpenOffice.org running with a XEMBED ready docking window:



The title bar of the docking window shows the socket id to which XEMBED applications can connect.

I used the following Mono code to connect to the XEMBED socket:

using System;
using Gtk;

// Compile with:
// mcs -pkg:gtk-sharp SamplePlug.cs

public class SamplePlug
{

 public static void Main(string[] args) {
     if (args.Length != 1) {
  Console.WriteLine("Need socket id as an argument.");
  return;
     }
     uint socket_id = UInt32.Parse(args[0]);
     
     Console.WriteLine("using socket "+socket_id);
     
     Application.Init();
     
     Plug plug= new Plug(socket_id);
//     plug.Add(new Label("HELLO"));
     plug.Add(new Entry("HELLO"));
     plug.ShowAll();

     Console.WriteLine("running..");
     Application.Run();
 } 
}

The picture below shows it all running:


In theory this'll work not only with Mono but with any application which can talk the XEMBED protocol like e.g. GTK- and QT-based applications.