UI and frontend software design and consulting since 1991
FreeConferenceCall company has published new version of their video conferencing application that aims at one-presenter-thousands-viewers video conferences and screen sharing. Their application works on Windows and OS X and uses solely Sciter based UI with extensive use of Sciter’s unique popup DOM elements. Even video is rendered by Sciter with custom native video frames providers….
Here is selfie of syntax (tiscript) colorizer – the text below is a full source code of syntax highlighting routine. The code has colorized itself: Can your browser do that in 40 lines of code? And here are styles that define style of tokens: plaintext > text::mark(number) { color: brown; } plaintext > text::mark(number-unit) {…
Please consider these tasks: Find all words in text on HTML page and highlight them Syntax highlighting: parse text of <pre> and mark all keywords by changing their color Find all misspelled words in <textarea> highlight them specifically. Currently you can do #1 and #2 by wrapping each text found into <span>s with specific classes…
You can read it here (in Russian).
ENTER in that input triggers script evaluation: inspector asks the “inspectee” to execute that script in context of its selected element.
I am adding CSS filter property support to upcoming Sciter version. That involved Windows backend refactoring to support Direct2D v.1.1 if it is available.
Sciter’s is getting new Inspector tool. New Inspector is a standalone executable that communicates with the inspectable Sciter window (view) over TCP/IP using DataSockets. There are few reasons behind such architecture: Mac OSX and GTK (or QT) do not really support multiple GUI threads in the same GUI process. Inspector UI must be run independently…
Print and Print Preview feature will appear in upcoming Sciter versions. It uses the same architecture ( page-template -> document to print) as in S1. Among other things it will support scriptable drawing using paintContent(gfx) and print event handlers on template level.
Sciter on Raspberry Pi 2 in kiosk mode: Thanks to Michael Weber!