On 12-10-13 4:29 PM, Pavel Krivanek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I created a port of Phobos (framework for creation of native user
> interface using XULRunner) to Squeak too.
>
> http://code.google.com/p/phobos-framework/
>
> It uses WebClient instead of Zinc. To load Phobos evaluate:
>
> (Installer repository: 'http://www.squeaksource.com/WebClient')
>    addPackage: 'WebClient-Core';
>    install.
>
> (Installer repository: 'http://www.squeaksource.com/Seaside30')
>    addPackage: 'Grease-Core';
>    addPackage: 'Grease-Pharo-Core';
>    addPackage: 'Seaside-Pharo-Continuation';
>    install.
>
> (Installer repository: 'http://www.squeaksource.com/SCouchDB')
>    addPackage: 'JSON';
>    install.
>
> (Installer repository: 'http://smalltalkhub.com/mc/PavelKrivanek/Phobos/main')
>    addPackage: 'Phobos-Core';
>    addPackage: 'Phobos-XUL';
>    addPackage: 'Phobos-HTML';
>    addPackage: 'Phobos-Demo';
>    addPackage: 'Phobos-WebClient';
>    install.
>
> To start the server evaluate:
>
> app := PhobosDemo new.
> app startOnWebClient.
>
> ATTENTION: You will need to modify start.st script in the bundle.
>
> There is one main ugly difference from Pharo, If an error on Smalltalk
> side is raised, no debugger is opened. You will get the information
> about an error only on the JavaScript side in JSConsole:
>
> "
> Error: The connection to ws://localhost:46528/newSession has
> terminated unexpectedly. Some data may have been transferred.
> Source File: chrome://myapp/content/main.js
> Line: 132
> "
>
> Cheers,
> -- Pavel
>
We were just talking about this in the Squeak Community Meeting, as we 
were discussing the possible limitations of web browsers

Having played with this a bit my first question is where is the client? 
I loaded Phobos, started it, and went to http://localhost: 46528 in 
Chrome, which I think is my first mistake right there. Does this work on 
Firefox and not Chrome, because Firefox uses Xul? Nope.

This uses a ws://localhost protocol I've never seen before. OK. Where 
does that go? Is there a Xul browser? Certainly not.

I download XulRunner, but that isn't an application. I'm supposed to 
create an application like ChatZilla [1] and start it with XulRunner 
after I've downloaded it, c'est la:

/Library/Frameworks/XUL.framework/xulrunner-bin 
/Users/chrisucunnington/Desktop/chatzilla-0.9.89-xr.zip

And I don't see any place to put a ws:// address. Hmmm...

So I've got some nice pictures of the running Phobos demo presenting in 
an unknown client. [2] They setup looks kind of like the Xul Periodic 
Table, which used to be online, but was severed due to security.

So, I think before you can use the Phobos demo you need to build a 
client to see it and start it with XulRunner. There's something wrong 
with that statement, but I don't know what it is.

Pavel also created an all JavaScript version called XulJet. [3]

Chris

[1] http://chatzilla.rdmsoft.com/xulrunner/
[2] 
https://plus.google.com/photos/106846588629768024210/albums/5797347436751628657
[3] http://code.google.com/p/xuljet/
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