It seems the preferred way to use Google Earth in an application is to embed it within a web page then access it via the javascript API.
However, rather than embed it in a web page, is it possible for some code to embed new functionality within the Google Earth desktop application itself? or is writing my own app with an embedded web browser my only option?
is it possible for some code to embed new functionality within the Google Earth desktop application itself
Depends exactly what you want to do. Can do a fair bit (but not everything!) with KML and in particular NetworkLinks.
is writing my own app with an embedded web browser my only option?
Not the only, but probably the most flexible.
Google dropped support for the COM API (ie. the desktop app) some time ago. The COM API was pretty terrible even on the best of days anyway.
What you could do is write an app that uses an embedded web browser -- and that web browser is what is viewing your Google Earth instance. Then you get the full features of the web API, plus the robust features of your language. If you use C#, you can use Google's API (which has a C# binding) and connect that to the javascript events as needed (ie. to figure out when the user clicked stuff in the web page.)
Here's an excellent point where you can get started:
http://code.google.com/p/winforms-geplugin-control-library/
In all seriousness -- having worked with the old COM API for nearly 2 years -- I'm glad it's gone. You really don't want to use it.
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Is it possible to do user authentication / user-login for Facebook-Api inside a Visual Studio C# project using XNA Game Studio? I need to generate the access-token to post a message on a user's facebook wall.
Currently I managed to do it with a WinForms application using this tutorial (English):
http://blog.prabir.me/posts/facebook-csharp-sdk-writing-your-first-facebook-application-v6
or this tutorial (German)
http://frank-it-beratung.com/blog/2011/01/29/tutorial-ein-facebook-pinnwandeintrag-mit-visual-basic-oder-c-teil-2/
Its no problem with WinForms, because you can use System.Windows.Forms.Webbrowser control.
So in order to support this functionality in XNA Game Studio, do I need to embed a Winform Control in XNA? Or is there a better way?
I could embed the Winform in XNA by using this tutorial:
http://theinstructionlimit.com/how-to-properly-use-windows-forms-with-xna
You can try to use HttpWebRequest. You can google more info on how to use this method, essentially it is a direct connection to web page, the same way browser does it in background. Unfortunately it is not so easy to do and you might encounter additional facebook security barriers (as facebook does not want automated connections without web service).
There is also facebook sdk for windows store applications, but it should be possible to take some of it's code and use it for XNA.
So to answer your question - yes, there is definitely better ways to implement facebook login, but most likely much more complex than using Webbrowser control. Webbrowser should be last resort.
we want to create an internet platform, where for registered users the following is done:
1) Tracking of the applications they open during they are "checked in" on the page
2) Tracking of their web surfing
3) In regular periods a picture is automatically taken by the built-in camera of the laptop (not Smartphone) and uploaded to the platform.
I know, sounds like brave new world;)
Is a server-sided framework like Rails with client code in JQuery sufficient for it?
Or is an own client application in e.g. objective-C for MacOS necessary?
Thanks,
R
You can do 2 using almost any of the web application frameworks + javascript.
1 is impossible unless the there is an application running in the desktop or a browser extension that is communicating with your website.
However the 3 sounds very alarming from a privacy standpoint. But if the users are willing and is aware of it then it's not an issue.
As far as I know, JavaScript does not natively support accessing the web camera. But Flash does!
Fortunately for you there is a library which combines both Flash and JavaScript that can take a web cam snapshot. It's called jpegcam. There seems to be another one called jquery web cam plugin. Also read this question - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3922723/using-a-webcam-with-javascript
I am trying to do web apps using PhoneGap framework for iOS. I need to know whether PhoneGap loads page from server or not, I mean , can I use server side scripting language like php, pyhon, etc?
And if I used those scripting language, can I use phone native feature like camera?
Also for data storage there may be feature, I heard opendatabase can be used for online / offline database. Please anyone help me to figure out these things.
Waiting for good answer.
Thanks
Server side scripts cannot be loaded from within the app, however you can certainly call out to PHP, Python, etc running on a server from the app using AJAX, XHR, etc.
I gave an example in the question below:
How can get value in phonegap which is returned by php class?
How can i make a lotus application an iPhone native apps?
For e.g: eLeave.
The submit or approve action button in the form was created using lotusscript. So how can it work in iOS ? I have no idea how can i extend my lotus application to an iPhone Native Apps. Someone had suggested to use either SOAP or REST via HTTP to communicate between iOS and domino. But i don't even know what can i do with SOAP in my apps.
Pls help.
The suggestions along the lines of SOAP or other HTTP-based access to the data are correct. Since you can't just port a Notes app to the iPhone (for a variety of reasons) or use the Notes Java API classes (since the iPhone doesn't have Java), some form of HTTP access is your best bet. Either traditional Domino web access via forms or XPages are most likely the best way to go, since then you can write your UI in Designer. If you don't want to or can't do that for whatever reason, you're on the hook for writing the UI for your iOS app separately and then connecting to Domino via Web Services or REST functionality.
SOAP Web Services are probably what you want. They have the advantage of being supported directly in Designer - you can create a Web Service Provider in LotusScript or Java in much the same way you would write an Agent or Script Library. You would have to write methods to access and update the data you want, but it would also mean you have full control over what happens. You could re-implement your form-submission code as a web service call that takes the changed data as parameters and then does whatever manipulation you want and creates/saves the document.
It does depend on the version of Lotus/Domino you are running. This could be a start XPages Mobile Controls I am not sure about the "native"here. This is XPages, web based.
Based on your comment, I know of one native application TSAzr. This application uses XPages as web-services on the domino server. A bit more info can be found here dominoGuru
Your follow-up suggests that a mobile-optimised web application will not cut it, and that you want a native application. This means writing a new iOS application, end of story. There are different ways to go about this of course—e.g. you could build a web app and then wrapper it using something like Appcelerator Titanium, or PhoneGap—but ultimately, you need to write something.
As #Jesse Gallagher has already stated, Notes applications can't be ported directly to an iOS device. Apart from anything else, a Lotus Notes client application is a proprietary data store (NSF) sitting within a C and C++-based client built and compiled for the relevant underlying platform (Win or OS X). There is no direct analogue for iOS other than re-coding your app (of course, you could re-use the existing Lotusscript business logic via web service calls, as detailed in earlier answers).
I searched arround for solutions and didn't find anything of really pertinent on the subject.
This is why, I ask you guys your help :-)
Assuming I have an application running with Rails 3 using Devise to authenticate the users.
I need to create mobile applications for Iphone/Android and WP7.
The mobiles applications should communicate/login/create/list, do whatever the website can do.
The mobile Applications could commuicate by parsing the XML .... but maybe there are already lib/frameworks or something more sexy ?
What would be the best way to communicate between my mobile applications and my Rails website ?
I'd use the xml or json output to share data back and forth; For authentication you can set (in initializers/devise.rb)
config.http_authenticatable = true
That enables you to send basic HTTP Auth headers with every request which devise will handle for you.
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For creating a webapplication that is also possible to view in a mobile version for the website i'd recommend to check out this railscast: http://railscasts.com/episodes/199-mobile-devices
It sounds like, if the mobile app is just an interface to the web app, that you would likely be best served by creating a mobile HTML5 "style" within your web app, that gets served automatically when a mobile phone accesses your website. All of your code can be in Rails, which it sounds like you're already familiar with, and you've also got the advantage of keeping your codebase all together in one place - if you want to add functionality later, you just update your web app, and don't worry about updating 2 different mobile phone apps as well.