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Poor-man Electron

Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 3:14 pm
by Antonio Linares
Electron concept is to use web apps as desktop apps.

With these small batch files we launch our remote web apps developed with mod_harbour:

Once Edge shows press F11 to hide the navigation bar (any idea to do this programmatically?)

myapp.vbs

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Set objIE = CreateObject( "Shell.Application" )

objIE.Open( "microsoft-edge:https://harbour.fourtech.es/modharbour_samples/genesis/index.prg" )
myapp.bat //this option is worse as a cmd window is shown

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start microsoft-edge:https://harbour.fourtech.es/modharbour_samples/genesis/index.prg

Re: Poor-man Electron

Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 4:14 pm
by Antonio Linares
This seems as a very good candidate also, but I am unable to make it run. Help! :-)

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start microsoft-edge:http://google.com
>> $wshell = New-Object -ComObject wscript.shell;
>> $wshell.AppActivate('Google - Microsoft Edge')
>> Sleep 2
>> $wshell.SendKeys('{F11}')

Re: Poor-man Electron

Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 5:25 pm
by Antonio Linares
This seems to be a good one but SendKeys is not working yet:

myapp.vbs

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set ws = CreateObject( "WScript.Shell" )
ws.Run( "microsoft-edge:https://harbour.fourtech.es/modharbour_samples/genesis/index.prg" )
ws.AppActivate( "Edge" )
ws.SendKeys( "{F11}" )

Re: Poor-man Electron

Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 5:52 pm
by cnavarro

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start chrome --start-fullscreen -app=https://harbour.fourtech.es/modharbour_samples/genesis/index.prg
 

Re: Poor-man Electron

Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 5:58 pm
by Antonio Linares
Cristobal,

great! :-)

This one maximizes it:

myapp.bat

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start chrome --kiosk -app=https://harbour.fourtech.es/modharbour_samples/genesis/index.prg

Re: Poor-man Electron

Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 6:18 pm
by cnavarro
Yes, but it is better to keep the preferences of the last session of the user.

Si, pero es mejor mantener las preferencias de la ultima sesion del usuario.

Re: Poor-man Electron

Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2019 4:24 pm
by Rick Lipkin
Antonio

Be Carefull using the Chrome Kiosk option ...

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start chrome --kiosk -app=https://harbour.fourtech.es/modharbour_samples/genesis/index.prg
 
alt+F4 closes the Kiosk app ..

Rick Lipkin