Sometimes I see web based software that is designed using some slick javascript windows which try to emulate the Windows desktop experience (draggable windows and a start menu).
Are there any free frameworks like this available?
something like ExtJs?. Here are some demos
Desktop like webpage
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I would check out jQuery UI
http://jqueryui.com/demos/dialog/
Maybe you want to have a look at http://qooxdoo.org/demo - I don't have experience with it, but it looks quite capable.
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Is Chrome Dev Tools available only through Chrome extensions? Or is there a way we can use it, for instance, as a library from a JS standalone file?
Update
Chrome DevTools Frontend is now an NPM package that you can take advantage of. It is based from the new DevTools sub-repo in Blink. So you can easily pull in the DevTools assets and keep then up-dated without much work.
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It depends on what you want exactly. You can dig in and rip out bits of the frontend to use. Like Betwixt by Konrad pulls the network panel design out and plugs it up to an OS interceptor. So you can use the network panel you know and love to debug any app on your desktop.
Now, can you easily do this kind of stuff. Even keeping it auto-updated? No, not really. It is fairly complicated and you need to be able to handle ripping the stuff out yourself. That being said, if you want a challenge then the code is open to everyone.
I'd say that the first sentence on the About website is pretty clear:
... built into Google Chrome.
So officially, by Google, it's only for Chrome. It's part of Chrome, not a standalone library. Issues linked to DevTools are part of Chromium, where people can contribute.
Is there any good browser plugin that has Python as its primary scripting language. It is ok even if it has very minimal graphical abilities like just taking inputs through HTML forms or parameters and rendering text as output.
One option is running Python on server side. But unfortunately, I am not allowed to install any Python server side framework.
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It seems that Silverlight can use IronPython as its language. But any other more cross platform solutions are still welcome.
You can look at the PyXPCOM add-on to Firefox. It seems to do what you're looking for.
I am not a web application pro but need to start working on a project so I need to know if pyjamas ( or shall I say the javascript generated o/p of pyjamas ) is as good as pyqt in terms of 2d graphics and widget features. I have a desktop python application which has some rich 2d graphics (with animations / collision detection etc..) implemented using pyqt.
Now I am specifically looking for equivalent web client with similar graphics and widget features . Does pyjamas support all the pyqt UI features with same look and feel??
I am also exploring GWT for this since I believe GWT has a good set of UIs and also supports decent 3rd party tools like vaadin,smartgwt but my preference is for pyjamas because its python and I am writing a equivalent pyqt based desktop app so am more comfortable with python then java. Also am not sure if GWTs look and feel would match with that of pyqt based UI on windows.
Any insights would be very helpful
Thanks in advance
Regards
Shyam
Probably too late, but if anyone else would need an answer,
Pyjamas' widgets are mostly same as GWT's (most are direct translation from GWT, but we have some own widgets too), and do not target Qt, GTK or any other toolkit.
If you are looking into using webkit, you could get best of the two worlds, and use Pyjamas with PyJD. This way your very same application could be compiled into html/css/javascript and run in web browsers and at the same time you could run it in pyqt-webkit, xulrunner or mshtml with original python code.
I'm trying to develop a desktop program, unifying java and javafx.
For now, I want to know recommendations about how to create a rich menu interface for my program, something like the menu of Office 2007 or Modellus.
So, what you recommend to start developing that?
I don't know what level of experience you have with JavaFX, but if it's limited, then start with the tutorials at javafx.com, and similar on the web (see Jim Weaver's site).
From there I think your best bet would be to find similar open source applications and learn from those. Frankly I think it won't be easy because there's not a great deal of similar applications out there to learn from.
However you could take a look at Project MaiTai, MusicExplorer for starters.
Is anyone able to run JavaFX applets inside the web page? I am not. I also tried applet here: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/aim/archive/2009/07/bounds_unleashe.html (on the bottom) but it doesn't work for me. Tried on Ubuntu and Windows, on IE and Firefox. All I can see is endlessly spinning Java logo. What can be the problem?
If you look at the comments below that example, sounds like that demo doesn't work for anyone.
Try Using http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/deployment/deployment_toolkit.htm
Also this link might be useful which describes the process and check an alternative which is using JavaFX in Swing applications
http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/deployment/deploy_swing_apps.htm