dillo web browser for the iliad

[liyiwen]

Antartica,
understand your situation.... anyway still appreciate your contribution very much..... we can wait for ... don't worry....

[Antartica]

Hi all,

Thanks to the kind guys over dillo-dev mailing list, now I have compiled successfully dillo2 for the iliad!

This is a straight compile, so no input yet (argh!), but it is coming. See attached screenshot.

If you want to test it yourself, the binary is also attached, but beware that it isn't very useful yet because of the lacking soft-keyboard support.

[ericshliao]

You are really brillant. I tried to build dillo2 for iLiad several time in the 6 months and got nothing success.

So, is this dillo 2.0, 2.1 or 2.1.1?

[cbell]

Antartica, many, many thanks for working on this!

[ericshliao]

It's dillo 2.1.1, and it's really fast. FLTK is so amazing.

Added:
Antartica,
did you build FLTK with freetype enabled? The dillo2 that you built seems can't display homepage with Chinese text. I am not sure if it's the nature of dillo2 or something else. IIRC, dillo2 on my desktop Linux can dispaly Chinese text.

Added 2:
Just found that I am wrong. Dillo2 on my desktop can't dispaly Chinese text, eighter.

[Antartica]

Originally Posted by ericshliao

Just found that I am wrong. Dillo2 on my desktop can't dispaly Chinese text, eighter.

I'll have to investigate it, because I intended to be able to browse japanese sites with it!

Can it be because the default fonts it chooses? Can you try to change in the dillorc file the font used to display proportional text to one you know has the necessary glyphs?

[ericshliao]

Originally Posted by Antartica

Can you try to change in the dillorc file the font used to display proportional text to one you know has the necessary glyphs?

I would like to try, but I am having difficult in build dillo2 for my desktop. I just screwed up my desktop Linux, and after re-installed Linux and FLTK2, I always failed at building dillo2. I am still trying to figure it out.

[ericshliao]

Since I can't try it on my desktop, I tried it on iLiad. I added several lines to specify fontname in dillorc and put dillorc in $HOME/.dillo. I also changed the start_page to Google. dillorc was loaded when dillo2 started, but it failed to display proper font.

[Antartica]

Originally Posted by ericshliao

Since I can't try it on my desktop, I tried it on iLiad. I added several lines to specify fontname in dillorc and put dillorc in $HOME/.dillo. I also changed the start_page to Google. dillorc was loaded when dillo2 started, but it failed to display proper font.

What a pity. Thanks a lot for the test.

I will try to fix it when I have some time... but after releasing one dillo2 with keyboard support .

[ericshliao]

I finally managed to build dillo2 for iLiad now. Still failed for desktop.

I did a small test and found that maybe FLTK2 does not support Chinese and Japanese text dispaly. I adopted the hello world example from FLTK2 tutorial, and inserted some Chinese and Japanese text after "Hello World". Sadly, only "Hello World!" can be dispalyed. Chinese and Japanese text were showed in empty blocks, just like what I saw on Dillo2.

I put the program here for you to test. Unpack the attachment to anywhere and execute from contentlister. Source code is included.

[ericshliao]

I wrote a small program (as follows) to print available fonts for FLTK2. The result is correct. I have to do some more test.

#include <fltk/Window.h>
#include <fltk/Widget.h>
#include <fltk/Font.h>
#include <fltk/run.h>
#include <stdio.h>

using namespace fltk;

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
	Font **  arrayp;
	int n = list_fonts(arrayp);
	printf("Number of font items: %d\n", n);
}

[Antartica]

Originally Posted by ericshliao

I finally managed to build dillo2 for iLiad now. Still failed for desktop.

I forgot to put here a reference to the needed change to FLTK2 so that it doesn't crash with kdrive with embedded fixed font (i.o.w., with the iliad X server):

http://lists.auriga.wearlab.de/piper...ly/006705.html

I assume that you have applied this patch (or that fltk.org guys have already incorporated the patch in fltk2).

I did a small test and found that maybe FLTK2 does not support Chinese and Japanese text dispaly. I adopted the hello world example from FLTK2 tutorial, and inserted some Chinese and Japanese text after "Hello World". Sadly, only "Hello World!" can be dispalyed. Chinese and Japanese text were showed in empty blocks, just like what I saw on Dillo2.

I put the program here for you to test. Unpack the attachment to anywhere and execute from contentlister. Source code is included.

Ok. Thanks .

[Antartica]

(from a message in xeepdmgr thread in iliad dev)

Originally Posted by ericshliao

I can build dillo2 on my desktop now. It still failed to dispaly Chinese and Japanese text. I also tried a hello world program, only English letters can be dispalyed. So, I guess the problem must be dealt within FLTK2.

One thing is certain, it is a simple compilation flags problem, as there are people in the dillo-dev mailing list using dillo2 with chinese/japanese:

http://lists.auriga.wearlab.de/piper...er/005427.html

[ericshliao]

I didn't know any patch until you mentioned. I am using "fltk-2.0.x-r6793".

Yes, I also read about the thread discussing text wrapping problem. But I don't know how did they managed to display Chinese and Japanese text.

I just joined fltk-dev mailing list several hours ago, and I threw my text dispaly problem there. Hope it can be solved.

[ericshliao]

With the help of fltk-dev mail list, I know how to compile single FLTK2 program to support non-English text now. It is: "fltk2-config --compile mycode.cxx". In fact, fltk2-config will call gcc with proper option. But how to use fltk2-config to compile dillo2?