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Richard Russell
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Re: BBC Basic for MAC
« Reply #10 on: Aug 17th, 2016, 12:09am » |
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on Aug 16th, 2016, 11:22pm, Mystic wrote:| I'm looking more for something I can send out as just a executable that "feels" like a web page in how it functions for the users. |
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Why don't you simply bundle the pages with your application as straight .html files (LBB would allow you to embed them in the EXE file of course) and then point the local browser at them? Most, if not all, popular browsers support the file:// protocol I think (I've just tried Edge, FireFox and Chrome and they all seem to) so you shouldn't need an HTTP server like Run Basic.
Somewhat to my surprise even the ATL embedded browser control seems to understand the file:// syntax, although for some reason it was awfully slow at fetching the page across my home network.
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Re: BBC Basic for MAC
« Reply #11 on: Aug 17th, 2016, 12:51am » |
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on Aug 17th, 2016, 12:09am, Richard Russell wrote:...for some reason it was awfully slow at fetching the page across my home network.
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Yep, one of the drawbacks for the file option. It works, but is painfully slow.
My HTML files are dynamic based on the program output. It's not like I am just accessing a bunch of static HTML files because they look pretty.
I would rather my program have input boxes on the HTML window (like a real form entry), then redraw the HTML page based on the database results, etc...
So essentially it would resemble typical HTML functionality, but being interpreted from the engine of LBB and not a server.
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Re: BBC Basic for MAC
« Reply #12 on: Aug 17th, 2016, 08:46am » |
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on Aug 17th, 2016, 12:51am, Mystic wrote:| So essentially it would resemble typical HTML functionality, but being interpreted from the engine of LBB and not a server. |
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I would suggest you check out Microsoft's IWebBrowser2 control to see if it has the capabilities you need. Because it uses an Object Oriented (COM) interface you would need to use the CallMethod function I wrote in order to access it from LB/LBB:
Code:function CallMethod(object, method, parm$)
code$=chr$(139)+"D$"+chr$(4)+chr$(139)+"T$"+chr$(8)+chr$(139)+"L$" _
+ chr$(16)+"VW"+chr$(139)+"t$"+chr$(20)+chr$(43)+chr$(225)+chr$(139) _
+ chr$(252)+chr$(243)+chr$(164)+chr$(80)+chr$(139)+chr$(0)+chr$(255) _
+ chr$(20)+chr$(144)+chr$(95)+chr$(94)+chr$(194)+chr$(16)+chr$(0)
p$=parm$
n=len(p$)
calldll #user32, "CallWindowProcA", code$ as ptr, object as long,_
method as long, p$ as ptr, n as long, CallMethod as long
end function
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Re: BBC Basic for MAC
« Reply #13 on: Aug 17th, 2016, 3:08pm » |
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Thanks! I'll check that out as well.
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