[Laszlo-user] Google Gears proof of concept

[P T Withington]

This is really cool!  Thanks for sharing.  (I would hope we could  
incorporate gears access directly into the platform.)

On 2007-06-04, at 15:30 EDT, Monsieur Patate wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have build a little proof of concept of interaction between  
> Google Gears
> and OpenLaszlo.
>
> I have simply store the contain of a grid into the local database  
> (SQLite
> file) with the new Google Gears system.
>
> The system is really easy to use with the DHTML runtime but i  
> wanted to use
> Flash for the demo, and it run after few hack.
>
> - have used "flash.external.ExternalInterface.call()" function to call
> Javascript functions
> - as i wasn't able to import google gerars javascript object in  
> OpenLaszlo,
> I've add a little javascript function to run the SQL query and  
> convert the
> result as a multidimensional array (like that array[row][fields]).  
> that i
> can import and reuse to build a dataset.
>
> I think google have made a really easy and powerful technology and
> OpenLaszlo can be drastically extended by this mean.
>
> You can download sources of my work here :
> http://www.misterpatate.fr/blog/?p=251
> direct link to sources : http://cyril.rouillon.free.fr/GG.rar
>
> The website is in french but sources are in English ;)
>
> -- 
> Cyril Rouillon
> - www.misterpatate.fr - Blog perso
> - cyril.rouillon.free.fr - CV