Web OS Developed in RunBasic

[mmiscool]

Hello all.

I am posting this to gauge interest in a web os package developed in run basic.

If any one whats to work on the project or help please speak up. I would really like to see this thing take off. I think that it could be extremely valuable to the RB community.



I am working on getting a package together for distribution so that other people can set up there own web os but there are a couple of modulus that need to be completed.


The package already includes:
* Video player
* Word like document editor
* Configuration tools for the users personal settings like desktop background and desktop shortcuts
* Configuration tools for an admin to add and delete users from the system
* Code Editor


The main modals that need to be completed are the update system and application repository system.

Similar to a normal desktop os there has to be an update system that can be run to download the latest source code and update the modules on the server from a more central server. The complementing server scripts to manage the update requests and return the updated code.

The other modal that needs to be created is a application repository and repository browser that can download and set up applications developed for the web os including there run basic source code and any accompanying files to be placed in the public folder.

I would like to ask for help developing these things and help developing these two systems.

I can set up user accounts in the web os hosted on my system or walk you through the set up on your own system.

You can email me at mike*no spam at*smbisoft.com

-Mike

[ekvirtanen]

Hi.

I do think i remember you told something about this project in the past. Sounds awesome project. I think RB definately needs projects like this. Hopefully developement of RB gets some boost when this kind of things pop's up

[bfraley]

Hi Mike,

I really like the concept described here.

Are they any updates or additional work completed since this post ?

For updates: Immediately, HTML5 / JavaScript solutions come to mind
such as "Offline-Applications" that use a manifest file to download all the resources needed for the application. Note: The checking for available updates, or changes to files is all simple and works rather automatically.

For a RB Web OS, I definitely recommend newer HTML5 APIs like
app-cache(local and session storage), Web Workers, and Web Sockets.

Most of this stuff needs browser support though, or is easier to implement using a browser that supports and sometimes automates some tasks. So, perhaps a custom RB browser could run with or on RB- with some of the latest HTML5 / CSS3 API technologies supported.

I am new to the world of RB, and the BASIC language. When I realized the ability to develop using BASIC for web solutions was possible, all of these more recently introduced HTML standards came to mind.

Do you have any news about your RB OS ?

I suggest the concept of a BASIC built "Web Platform" rather than an actual OS. A web-based OS experience perhaps ?

Lastly, it seems that you had already accomplished lot of work on this project. I would love to try it out, especially as I'd appreciate to learn from the code.

Thanks

[mmiscool]

Hello,

I have not worked on the project for a while but I use it every day.

I have come up with some tools for making it easier to program in rb such as a custom ide and an api package that automatically gets append to the basic source code for your project contain the tie backs to the "Web os" .

I would be happy to show y ou my work and make it so that you can give it a try. I can also give you a copy of the package file for the whole installation.

As of this moment I have not set up a package management system that integrates with my ide. That would be the plan thou to implement it to work with the ide.

I would welcome any one wishing to do this with me. I do want to publish the whole thing at some point here. I have been working to make it so that it works cross platform too. Some of the things it dose are on the back end and are written in windows like the stuff for trans-coding videos for the system.

If you want to talk my number is 860
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