Re: Window and form support in ecma/javascript?

Path	csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From	"Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.javascript
Subject	Re: Window and form support in ecma/javascript?
Date	Tue, 15 Jul 2014 18:51:37 +0200
Organization	solani.org
Lines	26
Message-ID	<lq3m6l$tlj$1@solani.org> (permalink)
References	<54ccf4e9-3c70-4ba5-b9b8-ba83b51b1aa3@googlegroups.com> <XnsA36BAF52B8212eejj99@194.109.133.133>
Mime-Version	1.0
Content-Type	text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15
Content-Transfer-Encoding	7bit
X-Trace	solani.org 1405443093 30387 eJwFwQERACAIA8BKItvQOCBH/wj+02V6AVHgcO7FfqHswFJjQLl1tNfYEXLzuLJYlzJf6wMI6hAW (15 Jul 2014 16:51:33 GMT)
X-Complaints-To	abuse@news.solani.org
NNTP-Posting-Date	Tue, 15 Jul 2014 16:51:33 +0000 (UTC)
User-Agent	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0
X-User-ID	eJwFwQERADEIAzBLD12hyBnc8C/hEyIsJk8wDpf7kLiyQmPz45tWStjrQrtVOesOteO5iv4BEGsQvg==
In-Reply-To	<XnsA36BAF52B8212eejj99@194.109.133.133>
Cancel-Lock	sha1:uZnvnT3dGo64B3b0d8p2d3/TmpY=
X-NNTP-Posting-Host	eJwNyskBwDAIA7CV0gLGHYdz/xGat2SCB+UKg9raakcSdJyhNb8j7kcmr+lGvWXBRd4xmsv+ARcgEVA=
Xref	csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:25389

Show key headers only | View raw

Evertjan. wrote:

> jonas.thornvall@gmail.com wrote on 15 jul 2014 in comp.lang.javascript:
> 
>> I want to change my HTML code running in window and forms into native
>> ecma/javascript to be able to make compiled applications similar to VB,
>> rather then run scripts in HTML windows. 
>>
>> Is it possible?
> 
> Javascript engines as such need an external environment, like the DOM,
> to interface with the user in a GUI, [a graphical user interface].
> 
> You can use javascript in MS-Wscript to execute your code in a CLI,
> [a command line interface], using writeln, alert, prompt, standardIn and 
> standardOut. 
> 
> Probably there are other environments accommodating Javscript,
> I don't think they will be as general as you want.

I have no experience with JavaScript GUI development, but it seems there
are several GUI modules available for Node.js:
<https://nodejsmodules.org/tags/gui>

-- 
Christoph M. Becker

Thread

Window and form support in ecma/javascript? jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2014-07-15 06:31 -0700
  Re: Window and form support in ecma/javascript? jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2014-07-15 07:42 -0700
  Re: Window and form support in ecma/javascript? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-07-15 17:14 +0200
    Re: Window and form support in ecma/javascript? jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2014-07-15 08:30 -0700
      Re: Window and form support in ecma/javascript? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-07-15 17:47 +0200
    Re: Window and form support in ecma/javascript? Hans-Georg Michna <hans-georgNoEmailPlease@michna.com> - 2014-07-15 18:14 +0200
    Re: Window and form support in ecma/javascript? "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-07-15 18:51 +0200
  Re: Window and form support in ecma/javascript? jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2014-07-15 08:18 -0700
    Re: Window and form support in ecma/javascript? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-07-15 17:25 +0200
      Re: Window and form support in ecma/javascript? jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2014-07-15 08:37 -0700
        Re: Window and form support in ecma/javascript? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-07-15 17:52 +0200
          Re: Window and form support in ecma/javascript? jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2014-07-15 09:18 -0700
            Re: Window and form support in ecma/javascript? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-07-15 18:06 +0100
              Re: Window and form support in ecma/javascript? jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2014-07-15 10:53 -0700
              Re: Window and form support in ecma/javascript? jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2014-07-15 11:06 -0700
          Re: Window and form support in ecma/javascript? jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2014-07-15 09:31 -0700
            Re: Window and form support in ecma/javascript? jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2014-07-15 09:44 -0700
  Re: Window and form support in ecma/javascript? "Chris M. Thomasson" <no@spam.invalid> - 2014-07-15 10:25 -0700
  Re: Window and form support in ecma/javascript? recompile@gmail.com - 2014-07-15 17:27 -0700
    Re: Window and form support in ecma/javascript? "Chris M. Thomasson" <no@spam.invalid> - 2014-07-15 17:47 -0700
    Re: Window and form support in ecma/javascript? jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2014-07-16 05:52 -0700
      Re: Window and form support in ecma/javascript? recompile@gmail.com - 2014-07-16 19:11 -0700

csiph-web