Re: Gnoga + Electron + Node.js = Cross Platform GUIs

["Michael Erdmann" <michael.erdmann@snafu.de>]

Hallo David,

thanks for the hint; i was not aware of Electron!

I think nobody needs any more Gnoga; the visualisation part is done by chromium executing 
Java Scripts. Node is basically used to implement the business logic of the application. So 
where fits Ada in?

/Michael




On 31 Dec 2015 08:13 PM ,David Botton <david@botton.com> wrote:
> Gnoga using the Electron (http://electron.atom.io/) project offers full cro=
> ss platform native desktop GUIs and access to all of Node.js
> 
> The support is in git HEAD for Gnoga
> 
> Make sure you have node.js installed and npm on your path
> 
> Run in gnoga's root 'make electron' and this will install deps/electron-qui=
> ck-start and copy in electron.html -> index.html and electron_boot.js to th=
> e electron-quick-start directory
> 
> Then start up a gnoga app, say bin/tutorial1 or what have you and then run =
> in deps/electron-quick-start  - npm start
> 
> You can modify main.js to remove the developer tools in deps/electron-quick=
> -start/main.js
> 
> Using this setup up you can easily bind to _any_ Node.js APIs and installed=
>  modules plus any browser based JS.
> 
> I will be adding Gnoga bindings to all the Electron desktop integration API=
> s for full native experiences on Linux, Mac and Windows in the near future =
> and writing up how to more tightly integrate for release a single gnoga/ele=
> ctron app. (As a result I will be deprecating the OS X native support. I wi=
> ll leave the Gtk native example for those wishing to see how to mix Gtk wit=
> h Gnoga).
> 
> David Botton


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