Posted by Benjamin Niemann on 02/12/07 21:01

Hello,

Felix Kater wrote:

> I am looking for an example or manual how to write my own object to be
> used in html's <object> ... </object> section.
>
> I am especially looking for the way how an object (to be written in C)
> receives the values from param tags and, in turn, how the object could
> return series of images to the browser as a result, similar to a video
> player. It would be optimal if there was a way to get the hands on a
> pointer of a window of pixels (e.g. 320x200 px) and then let the
> object write the image data into that location.

What you are looking for are instructions to write browser plugins. For IE
this is involves ActiveX controls, most other browsers support the NPAPI
which was introduced by Netscape. See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPAPI>
for an intro and some links.

HTH

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Benjamin Niemann
Email: pink at odahoda dot de
WWW: http://pink.odahoda.de/

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