[ale] HTML Based UI

Chris Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Sat Jan 26 11:58:57 EST 2002


Easy.

Run the borwser full-screen mode with no window manager.  Specify a geometry
at execution time.



-----Original Message-----
From: Calvin Harrigan [mailto:charrig at earthlink.net]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 11:56 AM
To: Michael E. Barker
Cc: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] HTML Based UI


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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