Poor-man Electron

[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

[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}')

[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}" )

[cnavarro]

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

[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

[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.

[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