[ale] HTML Based UI

[Michael E. Barker]

Calvin Harrigan wrote:
> 
> The only problem with using the browser approach is that I would like the
> application to be ran full screen without being able to switch back to the
> desktop (aka root window).  I know opera can go full screen but I can't find
> a way to lock into full screen mode.  I've yet figured out how to run
> netscape full screen without the menu's and so forth.
> I'm looking into tcl/tk, never used it but it might be what I'm looking for.
> 
> On Saturday 26 January 2002 11:25 am, you wrote:
> > 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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I guess the first thing to determine is which languages you are familiar
with.  Tk works with alot of languages.  I've recently looked into even
php-GTK but thats kinda different.

As for the full screen thing you can control the size placement and
inclusion/exclusion of menus with DHTML/JavaScript but I'm not sure I
understand why you want to lock out the destop.

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-Michael

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