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[Plugin-2] Browser Plugins

Graham
9-Oct-2008
[1991x6]
So, I'll have to dynamically generate the plugin code.  Sound right?
the fax is on a remote site and will be converted to png by imagemagick
Anyone know how to pass parameters to the plugin?
<PARAM NAME="Args" VALUE="?"> ? Command-line arguments passed to 
the script (available in system/options/args).
http://www.rebol.net/plugin/tests/plugin-guide.html
What I am doing now is storing the image in the webapp public area. 
 I think create the embed object with a parameter pointing to the 
image.  the embed object loads the paint program and then loads the 
image as the parameter.
Terry
9-Oct-2008
[1997]
that's quite the mashup
Graham
9-Oct-2008
[1998x2]
It's working ...
I can paint on an image that is stored in the Cheyenne webapp
Terry
9-Oct-2008
[2000]
How do you define webapp?
Graham
9-Oct-2008
[2001]
That's the term Cheyenne uses for a password protected area of the 
webspace
Terry
9-Oct-2008
[2002x2]
ahh..
did you need a password to draw on it?
Graham
9-Oct-2008
[2004x2]
let me do a quick video
http://screencast.com/t/ICQzmG4FP5
Terry
9-Oct-2008
[2006]
ok
Graham
9-Oct-2008
[2007]
the paint is a bit sluggish :(
Terry
9-Oct-2008
[2008]
Why faxes? Do they not have internet in NZ?
Graham
9-Oct-2008
[2009x2]
It's for the USA.  Not for me
Oh, and Canada
Terry
9-Oct-2008
[2011]
Still
Graham
9-Oct-2008
[2012]
Most docs in the USA and Canada get prescription requests by fax 
from the pharmacy
Terry
9-Oct-2008
[2013]
That industry is as bad as government when it comes to IT
Graham
9-Oct-2008
[2014]
I don't recall the plugin being this sluggish
Terry
9-Oct-2008
[2015]
Chrome?
Graham
9-Oct-2008
[2016]
IE
Graham
10-Oct-2008
[2017x4]
Anyone using IE can tell me why the paint is so very slow? http://www.compkarori.com/faxes/paint.html
Or, any View experts here .... Anton??
the plugin doesn't seem to show up in task manager.
I had always imagined that the view.dll ran just like View in terms 
of speed.
DideC
10-Oct-2008
[2021x2]
I looks like events are flowing too much. I guess events have to 
"traverse" the browser and then go to view.dll.

Maybe you should try an event filtering like romano/gabriele's one. 
eat.r is in rebol.org, but is old. I think there was an earlier version 
somewhere (Romano's web site : url ?)
I looks = It looks
Graham
10-Oct-2008
[2023x6]
Hmm.
I guess I could bring up the paint in it's own window so that it 
is outside the browser
I'lll give that a go.
the browser makes a nice container though allowing me to scroll the 
paint applet
I thought about enclosing the image inside <canvas> tags .. but doesn't 
work.
Yes, that works better, taking the paint surface out of the browser 
into it's own window.
Gabriele
13-Oct-2008
[2029x2]
graham, i think i remember the pluging getting a lot of mouse events 
(more than the standalone view). i think this was a IE thing.
you could solve using something like event compression etc.
Graham
13-Oct-2008
[2031]
Oh well, using it's own window also works :)
Graham
15-Oct-2008
[2032]
Anyone got the plugin to work with FF3 ?
Will
15-Mar-2009
[2033]
http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/
Graham
15-Mar-2009
[2034]
so you have rebol running ??
Pekr
15-Mar-2009
[2035]
Nice - so web guys are cheating on us, RIA followers, right? First 
they claim web is the mantra. Then they create new browser to even 
more split browser/standards penetration, then they allow native 
code to be hooked. Surely, to make some difference, this one will 
not be compatible with NS type plugins, to make it even more difficult 
for devs ...
amacleod
15-Mar-2009
[2036]
Would this "Native CLient"  run on any hardware that is not  x86?
Gabriele
16-Mar-2009
[2037]
iirc they are using some x86 specific features to enforce security, 
so my guess is no.
Sunanda
23-Mar-2011
[2038]
Is there any point in the REBOl.org Script Library supporting the 
plugin any more?


There are 15 scripts that are tagged as runable in the plugin. But 
none of them do in recent browers.
    http://www.rebol.org/st-topic-details.r?tag=platform//plugin
Henrik
23-Mar-2011
[2039]
for historical purposes?
Gregg
23-Mar-2011
[2040]
Is there a reason to remove them? Adding a note about compatibility 
would be good, but removing them means losing a bit of reference 
material. I don't know the last version of IE it works under, but 
I actually have some old things that use it. I still have IE6 here 
for running those. :-\