Hi Roger,
Thanks for your reply. Previously I was using Swing and my own XML parser to create the GUI. So it was called with for example GUIPanel mGUIPanel = new GUIPanel() from my main application class that controlled various devices and the database connections; Then I could just access the MGUIPanel.mState information etc. The application can be run headless, so sometimes there is not a GUI, but I guess I can hack around that. I can probably modify the DesktopApplicationContext.main (to maybe mainReturn) to return, a reference to the application return type(Just calls main and then returns the reference..) Or I could change the architecture to have it GUI centric. It just that my diagrams would then need to change. and they would not look at neat:] Anyway I think your answer is, that currently it is not supported:] It would be a nice feature, since probably not everybody wants to use Pivot from main. PS-Thanks for the Pivot Framework, I like the code;] Although the documentation still needs massive amounts of work;] And the Component Explorer needs to be finished;] PS2- If I get some time I will start adding to the Wiki. to try to minimise the learning cliff;] Regards, Mark. From: Roger L. Whitcomb [mailto:roger.whitc...@actian.com] Sent: Tuesday, 21 January 2014 1:35 AM To: user@pivot.apache.org Subject: RE: How to Run Application without DesktopApplicationContext Hi Mark, Welcome to Pivot. I'm sorry that you're having trouble, but let me see if I can help. To start with, could you tell me what the original application was written in (i.e., what GUI framework you were using)? How did you pass information back and forth between the GUI and the main application before (i.e., was it some kind of RPC, or what)? Currently Pivot has just two modes of operation: as a desktop app, or as a browser applet. These two would use DesktopApplicationContext and BrowserApplicationContext. There is probably no real reason we couldn't have a third type of application (maybe an "EmbeddedApplicationContext" that would act more like the GUI object that you're talking about). At this moment I wouldn't know exactly how to go about writing such a class, but I don't know of any technical reason why it couldn't be done. At some point you have to hook into AWT and connect to a GUI widget and the event handling (event loop) for it, but that (I'm pretty sure) could be wrapped in a slightly different way than DesktopApplicationContext does it (which pretty much assumes it is the main program of the application), but maybe more like BrowserApplicationContext (which obviously is assuming it is wrapped inside a browser as an applet). There should be no reason you couldn't pass application arguments even to a DesktopApplicationContext via the command line stuff even now. Or if you are using a message bus, or some other RPC mechanism, why you couldn't use that with Pivot also. Unless I'm misunderstanding the way your app is architected. So, maybe you could explain a bit more. Again, thanks for trying Pivot, and I hope we can get you going! ~Roger From: Mark R. Chambers [mailto:m...@mrchambers.org] Sent: Monday, January 20, 2014 6:11 AM To: user@pivot.apache.org Subject: How to Run Application without DesktopApplicationContext Hi Pivot, My application is not GUI centric, and I don't want to make the GUI the main part of the application. How can I pass variables back from DesktopApplicationContext or start a pivot application without DesktopApplicationContext? BACKGROUND: I have an existing application and I am replacing the GUI component with Pivot, it is a component of a much larger application. I previously just had a GUI object that I called and it made the GUI etc. and I could pass state information and values back to the main application. Is there any way to do this with pivot? Or do I need to modify the pivot src? (Or choose another GUI option, although I have battled with pivot for 3 days. to convert my GUI, and now find out that I can't seem to be able to get any variables back to the main program.) Regards, Mark
