hostenv for Seed

[Bryan Forbes]

​Seed is a library and interpreter, dynamically bridging (through GObjectIntrospection) the WebKit JavaScriptCore engine, with the GNOME platform. (from the linked web page).

I've put together a hostenv + other wrappers for core functions like XHR (using libsoup) and dojo.connect on GObjects (using something similar to dojo._base.event). There are still a couple of things to do, namely figure out how setTimeout and clearTimeout should work with regards to using a GObject.MainLoop (since JavaScriptCore doesn't implement these two functions, it will have to be done using GObject). dojo.connect should also be using GObject.signal_lookup to lookup signals rather than discovering them in seed/signals.js.

To load dojo into a Seed project, you would set up a directory structure like this:

root
- dojotoolkit
-- dojo
- main.js

In main.js, you would put the following:

#!/usr/bin/env seed

Gtk = imports.gi.Gtk;
Gtk.init(Seed.argv);

Seed.include('dojotoolkit/dojo/dojo.js');

dojo.xhrGet({
    url: 'http://www.google.com'
}).addBoth(function(res){
    console.log(res);
    Gtk.main_quit();
});

Gtk.main();

[Colin Snover]

I think I can safely say we won’t be doing this.