Embedding abiword

After yesterdays bit about how really soon we'll be able to easily embed evince in any gtk app, today is abiword's turn.

This is the UI that Eben designed for the Write activity in Sugar:



And this is one of the quickest ways to embed abiword using python:


from abiword import Canvas
import gtk

w = gtk.Window()
w.show()

c = Canvas()
w.add(c)
c.show()

gtk.main()


If you are curious about what you can do programaticaly with that Canvas instance, just type pydoc abiword.Canvas.

The only distros I know where this snippet should work are Fedora 10 and 11, but there are already some beautiful souls in #sugar who are working to make sure that it will be available in the next releases of Ubuntu, Debian, Mandriva, Gentoo, OpenSUSE and others.

Update: more and better info about PyAbiword here.