Hi, I'm afraid I know nothing about Gears but could do with an answer to my question below to work out if it's worth going further with the Gears route of development. Apologies if this turns out to be a 'stupid question'.
I have a hardware peripheral that I want to use to interact with a web server. I have binaries for the peripheral and an accompanying API in the form of a MS Visual C++ project which I'd like to use. The question is: Is it possible to implement this interaction between an external windows application (built using MS Visual C++) and a web application made with Gears? Some basic requirements I have for this interaction are listed below. 1. Ability to open a web browser - start web application 2. Ability to transfer data between hardware peripheral and web application 3. Ability of the web application to call routines on the hardware peripheral through the windows application running it. 4. Ability of the hardware peripheral windows application to call routines in the Gears web application. I assume there are some clever security features in Gears that might well prevent this? I would be very interested to hear any recommendations of alternative approaches if Gears is not appropriate. Thanks for reading, Alan
