Re: Is it possible to 'embed' one cocoa application within another?
Re: Is it possible to 'embed' one cocoa application within another?
- Subject: Re: Is it possible to 'embed' one cocoa application within another?
- From: John Stiles <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 13:18:23 -0800
Not as such.
If you were designing the apps yourself you could easily engineer a
solution that would work, but if you want to work with an external app
that doesn't have an API for such things, you are out of luck.
AppleEvents will let you tell other apps to do things, but it's not the
same as embedding another app's custom view into your own app.
John McLaughlin wrote:
Hi All,
I am working on a application and as part of that i would like to have a
view that actually 'contains' another entirely different application.
In windows world there are examples of this (for instance you can embed a
excel spreadsheet within a word document and then edit the excel spreadsheet
within word and you get all of excel's menus & stuff)
My needs are really simple... say I want to embed 'ical' in my application
(this is just an example... I really don't want ot embed ical but it makes
the point) I'd like to have my main application with a tab view and one of
the tabs would show the embedded ical, if a user was clicking on ical
controls the menu bar would how the ical menu but when it clikced on my
controls it would show my menu...
In case you are wondering I only have access to the binary of the external
app and I can't really modify it but I would like to have the user interact
with a single app to get his job done.. I know how to do this in x-windows
and I know it's possible (to an extent) in windows... Does such a thing
exist in the Mac?
-John
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