Homebox doesn't display views properly

views do work in homebox, the code is just not being handled properly.

In the function homebox_prepare_block() there is:

<?php
if (isset($block->content) && !is_array($block->content) && trim($block->content)) {
?>

What needs to be done here is:
if block->content is not set, then that should return NULL.
if block->content exists, then if block->content is not an array and is an empty string then return NULL.
All other cases should continue.
(If block->content is anything other than an array or a string, then should this also return NULL as well?)

The resulting changes to the above code looks like:

<?php
if (!isset($block->content) || !is_array($block->content) && trim($block->content) == "") {
?>

Now for the case when block->content is a string, the theme needs to handle it accordingly.
In homebox-block.tpl.php, the following change is what I made:

-     <div class="portlet-content content"><?php print drupal_render($block->content); ?></div>
+     <div class="portlet-content content"><?php if (is_string($block->content)){ print $block->content; } else { print drupal_render($block->content); } ?></div>

Not very elegant, but it works.

If it is possible, I think it would be better to convert the string into an array so that the theme template should only need to handle the array case. The problem here is that I do not know how the array should be structured to do this properly.

Attached is a patch that makes the mentioned changes.
With this patch, views work with homebox.