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Re: Can I make a web application of my IDL program? [message #70410 is a reply to message #70399]

Wed, 07 April 2010 08:51

Michael Galloy
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Registered: April 2006

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On 4/7/10 7:02 AM, David Fanning wrote:
> LNpellen writes:
>
>> I've been reading about ActiveX and callable IDL, but the more I read
>> the more confused I get. Can somebody tell me if the following is
>> possible and where I should start searching for information:
>>
>> I have an IDL application that I'd like to share with many of my
>> colleages on many computers. Installing and maintaining IDL on all
>> these is troublesome so I though I'd rather make an web-application
>> that runs on the intranet. The IDL application has GUI and is quite
>> large (several thousend codelines) and I'd hope to change as little as
>> possible.
>>
>> I'm familiar with html and some visual basic, but I do not understand
>> ActiveX and COM and all this. I read that one should be familiar with
>> the latter to use it, but isn't there an example to reuse and expand?
>> Can it be so hard?
>
> I don't want to discourage you, but I would say this is
> not possible and MUCH harder than you can ever imagine.
> I hope you prove me wrong. :-)

Yes, I agree. I would say you have two primary choices:

1. Forget the web and make a distribution that bundles IDL with your
current application. Check out MAKE_RT (IDL 7.0+ required). This is
pretty easy, even if the users of your app use multiple platforms. For a
start on this, see:

http://michaelgalloy.com/2009/08/04/make_rt-uber-installatio n.html

2. Go to the web, but re-write your application in
HTML-Javascript-etc. and call IDL behind the scenes. This is a *much*
more ambitious choice. There have been some interesting presentations at
the last couple IDL User Group Meetings of people doing this.

Mike
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		Re: Can I make a web application of my IDL program? By: R.G.Stockwell on Thu, 08 April 2010 12:37
		Re: Can I make a web application of my IDL program? By: Michael Galloy on Thu, 08 April 2010 12:32
		Re: Can I make a web application of my IDL program? By: LNpellen on Thu, 08 April 2010 12:09
		Re: Can I make a web application of my IDL program? By: Michael Galloy on Wed, 07 April 2010 08:51
		Re: Can I make a web application of my IDL program? By: penteado on Wed, 07 April 2010 08:00
		Re: Can I make a web application of my IDL program? By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Wed, 07 April 2010 07:29
		Re: Can I make a web application of my IDL program? By: David Fanning on Wed, 07 April 2010 06:02
		Re: Can I make a web application of my IDL program? By: LNpellen on Thu, 15 April 2010 12:51

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