Re: easy display system?

On 07/17/2013 09:43 AM, Carlo Capelli wrote:
> 2013/7/17 Carlo Capelli <[email protected]>
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>> 2013/7/17 Alan Baljeu <[email protected]>
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>>> basically view_term(Term) opens a window to show that term.
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>>> I've never heard of prolog_ide(debug_monitor).  It might be useful as
>>> well.
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>>> I'm not sure yet what will be most useful.  I'd want a window dedicated
>>> to one thing, and show a list of such things in there.
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>> Alan, I think the simpler interface could be just multiple named consoles.
>> I learned about them these days, attempting to complete the Qt console
>> port (thanks to Jan, we are near to something working now),
>> but if you can prototype under Windows (or you are incline to the bleeding
>> edge, testing our efforts toward Qt portability layer) see plwin<http://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?section=plwin>interface.
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> I forgot: fdqueens <https://github.com/CapelliC/fdqueens> showcases a
> CLP(FD) mini application interface, reusing this
> code<http://web.student.tuwien.ac.at/~e0225855/queens/queens.html>from
> Markus, thus showing attributed vars state change.
> If you can think of some graphical interface specification, maybe I could
> help.

Just curious: how easy would it be for the new console to allow 
applications to create a HTML5 app?  For example, something that
lets the user attach a new tab or window to the console.  Not
sure how this would compare with opening a browser.  Technology
wise though, being able to write HTML5 apps fits perfectly with
the current directions in SWI-Prolog and allow us to reuse
technology I want to develop anyway.  Think of a future graphical
debugger running as HTML5, nice term visualization, etc.

I'm thinking of something like

	open_web_app(+Location, Options)

Where Location is a URL minus the scheme and authority 
(http://host[:port] and Options provides things such as opening
as tab or window, etc.

	Cheers --- Jan