Can you do JS Client on Desktop?

Andy Hilton andyh at totallybrilliant.com
Fri Oct 29 18:56:57 UTC 2021


Yes I do this a lot these days as all our newer more complex stuff is ‘browser only’ but stuck in the desktop app via obrowser :)

Works great…..

Andy Hilton
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> On Oct 29, 2021, at 2:54 PM, Doug Easterbrook <doug at artsman.com> wrote:
> 
> have you tried running something in obrowser?  (even the sample app)
> 
> I have not, but since its basically ‘google chrome’ in a DLL…. it does pretty much any web page.
> 
> 
> you can try it against your main server.
> 
> 
> Doug Easterbrook
> Arts Management Systems Ltd.
> mailto:doug at artsman.com
> http://www.artsman.com
> Phone (403) 650-1978
> 
>> On October 29, 2021, at 11:38 AM, Das Goravani <goravanis at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Hi List, 
>> 
>> I am familiar with making JS forms for the App Server, that run in remote users web browsers. 
>> 
>> Rather than TRY to do what I’m about to ask, I thought I’d just ask first.
>> 
>> Can you do remote forms on the desktop version of Omnis. More specifically can the thick runtime desktop version do remote forms on the desktop in the web browser.  Ie, Single User, desktop thick version of Omnis, can it do remote forms on the desktop? For local use, with local SQL data, not anything remote, just single user local on the desktop.
>> 
>> The reason I ask is because there are many cool interface tools that only run on JS remote forms. If I want to make a remote form and run it in the thick desktop Omnis can I do that?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Das Goravani
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