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vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1230 Location: Ukraine

Dear Mark,

Wonderful work. I installed it in 4.12 on my Samsung NC10 netbook - after finding the libgee pet - and it works very well. It's great for browsing documentation, like your earlier html-viewer, only better.

Thanks.

With kind regards,
vovchik

PS. I share Lobster's enthusiasm.

BarryK · Posted: Sun 10 May 2009, 07:34 Post subject:

Wow, just when I put together a internal HTML-viewer PET for Woof alpha7, you are already miles ahead (or I should say "kilometres ahead"!)

Well, perhaps I'llleave it as-is for alpha7, because if I attempt to update it, I'll look on the forum the next day and see you have done heaps more to improve it.

I'm planing the next Woof release after alpha7 will be 'beta1', then I'll update it.

MU · Posted: Sun 10 May 2009, 08:22 Post subject:

Lobster, is there no icon in the menu?
Then I must change the "category" entry in /usr/share/applications/PuppyBrowser.desktop to a different one. I just had tested the menu-entry in lxde.
*edit: in Puppy 4.2 it works, just takes a moment to appear.

Vovchik,
yes, libgee is needed for the bookmarks.
It can be installed with PetGet.
I could replace the lists with fixed arrays, but must check, if it would have other advantages.
Libgee lists have an unlimited length, while arrays are fixed, so they would need some tricks to allow a non-limited amount of bookmarks. But it would be possible, so we had one dependency less.

Barry,
in the next 2 weeks I finish my C# course, and must work on my final project (C#2vala), so there will be not much time for the browser.
So it will remain like it is I think until then.

There is one issue, that is a showstopper:
if you click on links, that should open a new window, nothing happens.

E.g. the links on dotpups.de use "target=_blank", and do not work.
I have not found out yet, how to solve it, and if someone knows a solution, I would add it quickly.
A workaround is, to drag those links in the URL-entry, and click on the "ok" button.

Apart from that, it basically works as I like, I just would like to add support for tabbed browsing later, and mabe a very simple config dialog.

Mark

MU · Posted: Sun 10 May 2009, 09:51 Post subject:

The pet included old sourcecode without active pwget button (but the binary was the current).
I updated the pet with the current source, and added some comments in it, to make it easier readable.
Mark

Lobster · Posted: Sun 10 May 2009, 12:09 Post subject:

sullysat · Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Posts: 362 Location: San Antonio, TX

Mark,

This looks great but I need libgee and I don't see it in the petget list. I'm probably missing something simple and have no idea how to use petget from terminal.

Help?
Sully

MU · Posted: Sun 10 May 2009, 14:01 Post subject:

I added libgee to the message where you could download the browser.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=303882#303882
Mark

sullysat · Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Posts: 362 Location: San Antonio, TX

Awesome! Thanks Mark!

Sully

MU · Posted: Sun 10 May 2009, 14:08 Post subject:

I attach a pet for interested developers.

This NOT for endusers, as I just started to add tabs, they do not work at all as expected!

I has a new button, that opens a new tabpage with the current URL.
But when I click on the new tabs, a wrong index is returned (printed to console).

If someone can solve it, please let me know.
You must compile it on your own in ValaIde.

The corresponding code is around line 300:

MU · Posted: Sun 10 May 2009, 14:22 Post subject:

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7018 Location: qld

Hello Mark

I've been experimenting with trying to get the browser to run in fat_ free dillo on my 486 and realise it must actually need seamonkey, because I got all the dependant libs but still get an error, "TLS data" in regard to one of the libs. Giving up on that one

Next step is to remaster a 4.1.2 of puppy adding the puppybrowser and doing a full install to the 486. Methinks that should work. Seamonkey has next to no chance of running on that box due to ram constraints.

Thanks again

Mick

MU · Posted: Sun 10 May 2009, 16:39 Post subject:

Micko,
it also should run with this one:

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/xulrunner/releases/1.8.0.4/linux-i686/en-US/xulrunner-1.8.0.4.en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz

Extract it somewhere, you get a folder "xulrunner".

You should symlink it, e.g.:

trapster · Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 1966 Location: Maine, USA

Very Impressive MU!
Using it for this message. Very snappy so far!

MU · Posted: Sun 10 May 2009, 18:33 Post subject:

uploaded Puppybrowser 0.2.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=303882#303882

Changes:
- fixed bug, that pages for "new windows" did not load.
They now open in the same window.

- added a statusbar, so you can see where a link points to, when you move the mouse over it.

Mark

sullysat · Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Posts: 362 Location: San Antonio, TX

Okay, the system says the browser is installed and a dependency check says all is good now that I've got libgee installed. I even have the item in the menu, but it does not run.

The first time I try to run the browser when I boot the system I get some activity on the HDD for a few seconds, but nothing else happens.

I'm running 4.0 in a full install.

Sully