[Gambas-user] WebPage support in Gambas

Sun Mar 18 16:00:10 CET 2012

It's exact, you don't need to install all the development environment but just
create the executable of your application and install the runtime + all components you use
in your project.  That's all.

Olivier Cruilles
Mail: linuxos at ...1896...

Le 18 mars 2012 à 15:54, Emil Lenngren a écrit :

> You don't need the development tools to install a desktop application?
> 
> 2012/3/18 John Spikowski <support at ...2529...>
> 
>> On Sun, 2012-03-18 at 14:29 +0100, Benoît Minisini wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> In revision #4561, Gambas compiler now can compile WebPage.
>>> 
>>> ---- What is a WebPage ?
>>> 
>>> WebPage is a new "form" type that you enable in the IDE by using the
>>> 'gb.web' component.
>>> 
>>> It generates an HTML page from an HTML template having an ASP-like
>> syntax.
>>> 
>>> A WebPage has two parts: a "class" part (like forms) stored in a *.class
>>> file, and an HTML template part stored in a *.webpage file. The HTML
>>> part is edited with a standard text editor.
>>> 
>>> At the moment, the following syntaxes are implemented:
>>> 
>>> <% Code %>
>>> 
>>>      This introduces Gambas code inside the HTML page. Use the
>>>      PRINT instruction to generate some HTML directly.
>>> 
>>> <%= Expression %>
>>> 
>>>      This evaluates Expression and convert it to HTML with the
>>>      Html$() function.
>>> 
>>> For example:
>>> 
>>> <html>
>>> <body>
>>> <%Dim sEnv As String%>
>>> <h2>Environment</h2>
>>> <table>
>>> <%For Each sEnv In Application.Env%>
>>> <tr>
>>>   <td><%=sEnv%></td>
>>>   <td><%=Application.Env[sEnv]%></rd>
>>> </tr>
>>> <%Next%>
>>> </table>
>>> <%
>>> Print "<p>"; Html("Cool isn't it?"); "</p>"
>>> %>
>>> </body>
>>> </html>
>>> 
>>> ---- How does it work internally?
>>> 
>>> The *.webpage file is transformed by the compiler into a Render() method
>>> added to the *.class file. This Render() methods prints the generated
>>> HTML to the standard output.
>>> 
>>> ---- So now?
>>> 
>>> Let's talk about what kind of useful syntax could be implemented!
>>> 
>>> I think that every template syntax should be enclosed by '<%' and '%>'.
>>> 
>>> I think that some sort of include is needed. For example, something like
>>> <%{OtherWebPage}%> will be transformed into "OtherWebPage.Render()", so
>>> that the OtherWebPage is included into the current one.
>>> 
>>> Nothing is engraved in the marble (french expression), so please tell
>>> what you think about that, and if you have ideas!
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>> 
>> Looks sort of like PHP to me. ScriptBasic uses a preprocessor to
>> generate HTML pages from templates and 'form' variable tags.
>> 
>> I hate PHP but almost all widely used applications out there are based
>> on it. (security nightmare)
>> 
>> Personally I would like to see Gambas be able to create a desktop
>> application I can install easily and without the development tools
>> before you wonder off to the web side of Gambas.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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