Embedded Web Browsers

Although wxHtmlWindow is a fantastic lightweight HTML viewer, sometimes you need full web facilities in your application. Eventually wxWidgets will provide a single class to embed an appropriate browser on each platform, but for now there are different classes to achieve this.

On Mac OS X, wxWidgets comes with wxWebKitCtrl, which you need to enable by passing --enable-webkit to configure when building wxWidgets.

On Linux, you can download wxMozilla (see Appendix E). Be warned that your application distribution will swell by many megabytes if embedding Mozilla.

On Windows, you can download wxIE (see Appendix E) to embed Internet Explorer in your application. You can also consider using wxMozilla on Windows.