Browser as a view using WebUI
lazarus / 38-Networking and Web Programming

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delphius · 2023-06-09 21:18

WebUI is a lightweight portable lib witch helps you to use any web
browser as GUI, with your preferred language in the backend and HTML5
in the frontend.

I made a wrapper for webui on free pascal, tested it, made several
examples, everything works great.

This is an analogue of the library WebView that was written about in
this topic

I used Qooxdoo as a JavaScript framework in the browser to replace LCL
on regular desktop forms

Has anyone else worked in this direction? Are there any similar
working schemes for using a browser with RIA as a representation for
desktop applications?

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egsuh · 2023-06-11 22:07

I have tried VirtualUI here:
https://www.cybelesoft.com/thinfinity/virtualui/.

Installing this, I can run my Windows application in webbrowser. It
was not bad, but not using it yet.

I'd like to look into WebUI.

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delphius · 2023-06-13 07:43

Quote from: egsuh on June 12, 2023, 12:07:19 amInstalling this, I can
run my Windows application in webbrowser
Yes, I watched this product, it's more about virtualization and has
nothing to do with native development of web interfaces with a backend
in a programming language other than js.
Using a library like WebUI is a natural intermediate step before
moving to native development using pas2js and webassembly, which
awaits us in the future, according to this roadmap

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Sartaj · 2023-12-19 20:04

It is a good library. You can develop desktop app with HTML/JS. But i
face problem where you can't embed JS to live website. It uses
webui.js link to activate backend code. If it can embed JS code to any
live website then it can work as browser extension. I am also looking
to use of profile settings. If these are possible in this then we
don't need to compile cef.
Quote from: delphius on June 09, 2023, 11:18:50 pmWebUI is a
lightweight portable lib witch helps you to use any web browser as
GUI, with your preferred language in the backend and HTML5 in the
frontend.

I made a wrapper for webui on free pascal, tested it, made several
examples, everything works great.

This is an analogue of the library WebView that was written about in
this topic

I used Qooxdoo as a JavaScript framework in the browser to replace LCL
on regular desktop forms

Has anyone else worked in this direction? Are there any similar
working schemes for using a browser with RIA as a representation for
desktop applications?

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Ericktux · 2024-01-28 13:54

Hello friends, I am trying to use WEBUI in Lazarus Pascal but when
building the example I get the error "webui-2.dll" does not find the
file. 
PS: I am using lazarus 3.0 x64 in win10x64

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KodeZwerg · 2024-01-28 14:03

Quote from: Ericktux on January 28, 2024, 02:54:27 pmHello friends, I
am trying to use WEBUI in Lazarus Pascal but when building the example
I get the error "webui-2.dll" does not find the file. 
PS: I am using lazarus 3.0 x64 in win10x64
Go to https://webui.me/ , press Download, choose your operating
system, download the file, extract it in your "example" folder where
the binary .exe is, et voila.

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Thaddy · 2024-01-28 19:58

Or use CEF in Kiosk mode.

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egsuh · 2024-01-29 02:29

Is this only for "viewing" purpose or can this replace many Lazarus
form elements like TEdit, TTreeview, etc.?

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Ericktux · 2024-03-06 13:39

Hello friend, I imagine you can use the html5 elements and link them
with Pascal code, greetings