[Laszlo-user] OpenLaszlo for embedded GUI?

[P T Withington]

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On 2009-06-18, at 11:35EDT, dave boland wrote:

> Laszlo Systems,
>
> I have a few questions about your product if you don't mind.  My
> application would be for a data acquisition system real time display  
> in
> a web page.  The acquisition system is a small box with a network  
> port,
> a few LED's, and some terminal blocks for digital and analog I/O.   
> Like
> some printers, the configuration and status are done with an embedded
> http server running under a RTOS on the acquisition box.  Currently, I
> use AJAX calls every 2 seconds to simulate a real time display in the
> web page.  I have been asked to consider a Flash GUI since it may look
> and respond better.  I don't want to get in bed with Adobe though
> because it is costly, closed source, and they seem (so far) like a  
> pain
> to deal with.
>
> With that in mind, how can OpenLaszlo help?

We are open source.  Laszlo Systems, Inc. can also provide training  
and consulting for a fee.

> Will I be able to create a
> user interface easily?

That is the intent.

> Will it work with both Flash and Gnash players?

Currently qualified platforms are the Flash Player 8, 9, and 10  
Actionscript runtimes, and IE7, Firefox 3, and Safari 4 Javascript  
runtimes.

The Gnash folks contacted us a while back to try to get our  
Actionscript 2 (Flash Player 8) binaries running on their emulator.  I  
don't know the current state of that effort; you would have to contact  
them.

> How would it interact with the data acquisition box (which currently
> uses CGI's wirtten in C)?

Presumably the sam way your current web service does.  OpenLaszlo  
supports data binding using JSON.

> Any thoughts that I may have missed?

Welcome to the OpenLaszlo community!