On 1/13/17, John Spikowski <supp...@scriptbasic.org> wrote: > I think any major directional changes should include a web IUP as a > consideration. IMHO
I think this is a really interesting idea and I would love to include this. I've done a tiny bit with Emscripten/asm.js, but I am no means an expert. I am also not a web person so I don't have the domain specific knowledge on what a backend should look like. At a very high level, I think it should work like the following: (1) You should be able to take your C based IUP application, and compile it through Emscripten. Emscripten/IUP should have some kind of implementation for all the library calls (I'm guessing implemented in JavaScript for the web browser, though maybe it is CSS/HTML?). The final output Emscripten generates is a web site (with all the C converted to JavaScript), which is your original program now working in the web browser. (2) Emscripten/IUP should be able to output just a JavaScript/web module that web application developers can import into their projects. They can write new IUP applications completely in JavaScript for the web browser and will not have to write any C. (3 bonus) Presumably, other people may want native JavaScript bindings (aka non-web, directly to JavaScriptCore, v8, SpiderMonkey, DukTape, etc.) to IUP. (If you are confused by this concept, see my JavaScript talk from the Lua Workshop 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi_eMGO3g-o) The Emscripten/IUP JavaScript web API should be the same as any direct native JavaScript bindings to IUP/C. That way a developer who writes an app completely in JavaScript, can easily transplant it between the web browser and a native IUP app using the JavaScript bindings. In terms of IUP changes, I don't see it much different than what I'm doing now. I do know the existing IUP event loop will be a problem, however, I believe my event proposal should fix this one too. Since the web works on both desktop and mobile too, I suspect it will just be able to leverage what's already there. But as I said, I currently don't have the expertise in web backends or Emscipten to say more than this. So if we can find somebody to step up as the expert for this, then that would be great. Thanks, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE. Training and support from Colfax. Order your platform today. http://sdm.link/xeonphi _______________________________________________ Iup-users mailing list Iup-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/iup-users
