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CEF Tutorials

May 6, 2015 16:22

The Chromium Embedded Framework is a C/C++ Chromium wrapper that can help embed a browser into an application.

Many of these examples were demonstrated at OpenWest 2015. The slides are below:

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If you would like to write a Chromium application in C++, you can start by downloading a nightly build (provided by Adobe). If you'd like to use Visual Studio, you can follow the steps in this tutorial:

How to Create a VS 2013 .sln for a nightly CEF Build

There are Python bindings (CEF Python) for the Chromium Embedded Framework that can help embed Chromium into Python applications.

Installing CEFPython on Windows
Running the CEFPython wxPython Example
How to Build a Windows Executable from the CEFPython WxPython Example
CEFPython: How to Call into Python from JavaScript (wxPython)

Issues

CEFPython: Select box options bug, CEF Revision 1650

(Note: This is not an issue with CEFPython itself)

It is also possible to use SWIG to create a CEF wrapper for use in Python.

Why would you want to do this? Currently, CEFPython:

Uses CEF revision 1650 (this is outdated; the current nightly build is on revision 2378)
Requires Python 2.

How to Start Building a CEF SWIG Wrapper on Windows (Part 1)

You'll probably want to change the taskbar icon for your application in Windows. You can create your own icons and do this easily by following these tutorials:

How to Create an Icon for a Windows Application using IcoFX

How to set a Custom Windows Icon with Py2Exe

If you need to make a simple JSON service, it is easy to do with CherryPy.

How to Create a Simple JSON Service with CherryPy

CEFPython: Initiating a Python-based Web Service Call from within JavaScript

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