oBrowser -- Is there a demand for this?

[Bruno Del Sol]

Hi Paul,

We had an Omnis Software meeting last week in Paris, and Bob Whiting gave us a few insights on future versions. One of 
his "future enhancements" slide stated "Headless Linux Server Distribution: Remove dependency on X11". If I understood 
correctly, he also explained engineering is actually drafting the design of a rebooted linux dev version, but he didn't 
commit for that version anytime soon.

You can download the materials from this meeting here :

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9czzc3kobbgcuto/AACEH126tmSJfzDMpQH2cWIoa?dl=0

The Omnis Software slides (from Bob and Jason) are in english.

Cheers
Regards
Bruno


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Le 14/03/2017 à 01:15, Paul Mulroney a écrit :
> Hi $All,
>
> I'm with Andy and Bryan on this one - Linux support would be valuable to us.  As new projects come up we're moving them to Studio 8, and converting to SQL at the same time.
>
> However, we run Linux servers, and we can't use the Omnis web options in that environment.  Could there be a Linux version of Omnis that does NOT require X Windows in one form or another?
>
> I notice that you can create "console" apps in Xojo for all platforms, and these are intended for use as services - eg run your Xojo console/web app as a service.  There's no UI, so you need to consider how to log events etc.
>
> Regards,
> Paul.
>
>
>> On 14 Mar 2017, at 12:00 AM, omnisdev-en-request at lists.omnis-dev.com wrote:
>>
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>> Message: 16
>> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 09:45:22 -0400
>> From: Andy Hilton <andyh at totallybrilliant.com>
>> To: OmnisDev List - English <omnisdev-en at lists.omnis-dev.com>
>> Subject: Re: oBrowser -- Is there a demand for this?
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>> I?m with Bryan on this one - adding Linux support would be a huge bonus - that said - even without Linux it is a massively important conceptual component here to keep the Omnis runtime a more relevant factor for my app??
>>
>> I say conceptual because I haven?t done anything with it as yet but from what I read it really is the piece I want to be using to add some stuff we now do out of Omnis - and this will allow us to tie it all back together??
>>
>> It?s that or possibly move further away from the Omnis app altogether?..which I don?t want to do if I can avoid it?..
>>
>> Andy
>>
>>> On Mar 13, 2017, at 12:31 AM, Vik Shah <Vik at Keys2Solutions.com.au> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Listers,
>>>
>>> I have sent a few emails on oBrowser, Quill, etc... to the list and also to the guys at Omnis.
>>>
>>> In my email exchanges with Omnis support I got the feeling that they are at a ** tipping point ** for the engineers to decide if oBrowser will be just another component or do they actively invest into the oBrowser technology and expand it.
>>>
>>> So I?d like to ask the list if oBrowser is in use and if possible share your stories about it. I feel that oBrowser is quite a powerful addition to omnis studio and these are just some of the possibilities I can think of to bring into omnis without re-inventing the wheel.
>>>
>>> ? Leadtools Medical Image Viewer, PACS system, as well as many useful Imaging apps https://www.leadtools.com/demos/html5
>>> ? Customisable Ribbon toolbar http://ribbonjs.com/demos
>>> ? Another text editor, https://www.tinymce.com
>>> ? SIP client, https://www.doubango.org/sipml5/
>>> ? Mapping https://openlayers.org/en/latest/examples/
>>>
>>> These just a few of the things I can think of to bring into Omnis Studio from the recent projects that I have worked upon.
>>>
>>> Anyone else care to contribute here?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Vik Shah
>>> Director
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