masdn.microsoft.com and choose "library", then choose "Web Technologies"
then "HTA"). I've been using it recently and it's pretty sweet.
Basically all it is a single tag that informs IE to open in an "application
mode" - no browser chrome, right click, menu, etc and gives it the same
system access as any other application - you can (using _javascript_ and COM
objects) call web pages, write to the file system or system registry, access
hardware resources (scanners, cameras, etc) and whatnot.
The applications themselves are built totally in IE using
HTML/DHTML/CSS/Script/etc - all the web technologies that you know and love.
You can embed Flash (or other plugins) into the app just like you would in
any web page.
Really fun stuff.
Jim Davis
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From: Burns, John D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 2:58 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: SOT: desktop application
I have a question about what the best practice would be for creating a
desktop application. I do websites for some different bands, and they
all have an e-mail sign-up on their website. Most of them also have
some kind of a paper sign-up at concerts for people to sign up for the
email list. I was considering building an app that would run on a
desktop to allow people at concerts to enter their email address and
write it to a text or xml file that could then be uploaded to the
webserver and parsed into the database.
My question is what would be the best method to do this? I was thinking
of doing the front end in Flash but I'm not sure how to write to a file
from there. In theory, this app would need to work on a mac and a pc.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
John Burns
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