[ale] HTML Based UI

[Geoffrey]

You can do this with Javascript and window.open().  With window.open you 
define things like window size, which *bars (toolbar..) are displayed, 
whether the window is resizable.  Like:

<script language=javascript>

window.open(your.html, "windowname" "height=600,width=800")
</script>

Will open a the file your.html in a new window with no toolbars, status 
bar and such.  You can add these various items by including options 
like: status=1, scrollbars=1,menubar=1

There are a few others I don't recall....

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.
>>>--
>>>Calvin...
>>>
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