In a related question, I asked about Web Development. I came across something called OpenLaszlo yesterday and thought it looked interesting for doing some website development. The site has a bunch of good information on it and they've got some nice tutorials and such, but being a total novice (as far as web development goes), I'm wonde...
It seems OpenLaszlo can run on AIR. What's less obvious is whether OpenLaszlo apps can use the AIR-specific APIs, like file system access. If so, how exactly is this done? ...
Anyone have any comparative thoughts on these three technologies? Each addresses a different VM, but how do they compare in capabilities? ...
I have been looking at OpenLaszlo and observed that scripting in the client is implemented in JavaScript. Does this mean it is possible to use libraries like JQuery and PrototypeJS ? ...
I'm writing a conferencing portal using the open-source OpenMeetings, which is a Flash app that is compiled with OpenLaszlo. So, I have access to the SWF source code which is a mix of Laszlo markup and JavaScript, but not ActionScript. The problem I am having is that when users navigate away from the app in Internet Explorer, their micr...
I'm new to developing in OpenLaszlo, and have tried Eclipse (hoping for decent code completion), but found it far too heavy for my tastes. fell back to using Textmate, but the bundle for OpenLaszlo is terribly out of date. Any suggestions? or should I just roll up my sleeves and write a new bundle for Textmate? ...
I'm currently using the following function which is based on an example from the web, it is called every second to display the current progress through a video stream. Is there something I could do to make this more efficient? function secondstominutes(secs){ var s; if(secs > 60){ var min = Math.floor(secs / 60); s = min < 10 ? "0...
Hi, I have been looking at OpenLaszlo. I could not find how to deploy a solo application.. What do I have to copy or what programs do I have to run? I know the deployment type can be dhtml or flash... Thanks in advance. ...
I am looking for a way to keep track of the number of hits to a particular webpage. When the number of hits reaches a certain number traffic is driven to a different web page. Specifically I could use this to mod the number of hits by different values and drive people to different webpages on this logic. Do free web traffic analytics sof...
Hi, I'm exploring the Laszlo technology, which configuration of IDE/plugins/editors do you would suggest to me to use with Laszlo projects? Thanks ...
I recently stumbled upon flex/openlaszlo (OL). Both seem very useful and I have a few questions about them: What is needed to deploy flex apps? From what I understand, the flex sdk is open source, but the other tools (for development and deployment) are proprietary. What is needed to deploy openlaszlo? Is it completely op...
I have a requirement to put together an application which will generate a web slide show. It needs to be able to do fancy transitions between multiple images (in a browser) and also provide audio while those images are being displayed. The transitions between images must be delayed until the audio is finished (each image will have its o...
As a long time time Flex developer I've thought about building my next application - which should run on the iPad as well - with OpenLaszlo. OpenLaszlo offer a Flash and DHTML runtime, but besides the demos on the website I don't see any real world application built with OpenLaszlo: http://openlaszlo.org/showcase Has anyone built a larg...
I'm having a simple webapplication developed in openlaszlo 4.7.1. I'm requesting a perl cgi script which sends me back xml response. I sometimes get the following error: LzXMLLoader.XMLOnDataHandler load failed from URL 'http://xyz/cgi-bin/abc.cgi', no data received. The dataset is very simple and i set two parameters on it before i ...
InvalidAuthenticityToken from rails for POST request Hi All I have a rails server running to which I make a POST request. The dataset is defined as Now per rails documentation in order to make a POST a request I need to set the add "authenticity_token" to the query string. So if for example the authenticity_token is "xxxxxxx", the fin...
Hi, I'm looking for a framework or library to use the browser as a 2D "drawing" tool. Acctually drawing is not the right word. It should be a adding, removing and moving around of 2D objects and images on a canvas. The objects should be graphically connectable. So - kind a visio in a browser I guess it's a bit to much for a javascrip...