[ale] HTML Based UI

Michael E. Barker mbarker68 at home.com
Sat Jan 26 11:37:31 EST 2002


I've heard of web/Tk but not used it.  I'll put it on my to do list.

-Michael

Chris Fowler wrote:
> 
> And you can take that tcl/tk to the web with web/tk or something like that
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mebarker [mailto:mebarker]On Behalf Of Michael E. Barker
> Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 11:26 AM
> To: Calvin Harrigan
> Cc: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] HTML Based UI
> 
> I'm not sure I know what you want but the html application thing can be
> done with any browser and javascript.  A lot of CBT (Computer Based
> Training) CDs are done this way but it really just information UI.
> 
> As <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> posted Tcl/Tk or perl/Tk may be of more
> help to you.
> 
> As a project your idea sounds like a good one, a local web server
> handling the calls from HTML UI and passing it to another scripting
> interpreter, but that is pretty much what "lang"/Tk is doing.
> 
> -Michael
> 
> Calvin Harrigan wrote:
> >
> > Hi guys, I'm looking for some direction...
> > I was wondering if it's possible to build a regular user interface (non
> http
> > server dependent) using html.  You know I would like to use html to
> describe
> > how the interface is to be built but would like it to be an executable or
> > even a script to an executable to draw the interface widgets and pass
> > information to the core program. Sorta like cgi but without the apache.
> To
> > be honest I don't  know if such a thing is possible, I just thought it up
> and
> > wondered about the feasability.  If there is no such beast, is there a
> good
> > simple UI library for plane X-windows?  nothing windows manager based like
> > specifically for KDE or Gnome.  Thanks.
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