OXT Cloud IDE v0.00000001

[OpenXTalkPaul]

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Feeling inspired by HyperCard Simulator, I played around with our Emscripten Engine for a little bit this weekend and copied some components of "FreeGUI" into the OXT Web Playground stack.

[OpenXTalkPaul]

I haven't uploaded it to the repo yet, need to add some more IDE before I bother with that.

The Emscripten Engine is missing some features.
Most importantly it does not have a functional "wait".

It's also lacking a window manager due to the fact that 'the platform" is not a platform at all and is a web browser. Thus Stacks have NO window frames at all. So we need library that is a purely OXT based psudo-Window manager that creates and applies Window frames and 'decorations along with their functionality (close, grab, expand, minimize, etc.). I've been thinking a widget could be created specifically for this purpose, which would eliminate or at least reduce the amount of window management scripting a stack author would need to do to create a faux-Mac or faux-Windows window control for a stack. Such a widget would need several appearances of the frames / decorations (and preferably the ability to set a custom look of decorations) for different window types (like palettes).

[richmond62]

I always wondered what the Emscripten engine, with its cryptic name, and no proper documentation I could find, was for.

[FourthWorld]

I always wondered what the Emscripten engine, with its cryptic name, and no proper documentation I could find, was for.

With Google and DuckDuckGo I find tons of info when searching "Emscripten".

[FourthWorld]

Another possibility: an OXT-specific browser.

It doesn't replace web browsers. It compliments them.

Just as web browsers run HTML apps, an OXT browser could run stackfile apps.

No, it wouldn't be as popular. That would be the point, a specific network riding on top of the web but only accessible to OXT users.

Not everything needs to be for everyone.

Think groupware over publicware.

[OpenXTalkPaul]

Another possibility: an OXT-specific browser.

It doesn't replace web browsers. It compliments them.

Just as web browsers run HTML apps, an OXT browser could run stackfile apps.

No, it wouldn't be as popular. That would be the point, a specific network riding on top of the web but only accessible to OXT users.

Not everything needs to be for everyone.

Think groupware over publicware.

I like this idea, could be a bit remenecant of like AOL HC Forums or Hotine /IP BBSes. Even more cool if it had like a GopherVR style interface for browsing piles of stacks, ha!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GopherVR#/

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To some degree browsing all of the Pantechnicon stacks via a card on HyperCard Simulator's Home Stack feels a bit like an 'xTalk-net', or AOL HC forum's files section at least.

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