Run another app inside new XOJO app

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I have looked around and not found anything, perhaps the search terms I am using.

Is there a way to run another application inside a XOJO app? Basically the app displays video from other cameras and I need to add other functionality. This application will run native to MAC OS X or potentially in a Web browser (still need to verify this one)

Thanks

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On OSX, you may be stuck.
This sounds like the functionality provided by embedding OLE objects in Windows.

What other functionality are you looking to add?

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some simple buttons that performed defined control aspects per API definitions

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You can’t do this on Mac OS X.

It sounds like the target application offers its own API. I presume it doesn’t allow you to write plugins for it.
Create a helper application that either installs a Statusitem menu (a menu that appears in the Mac menu bar near the clock and persists across multiple applications) MBS has a plugin for this, or use a global floating window that appears and disappears whenever the target application comes in to the foreground or background.

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Hi Carl,

I’ve created a “Mac Desktop App” with a “Mac Web App” inside the Desktop’s Resources folder. The idea was to create a GUI interface to the Web App which has an HTMLWebViewer to access the Web App.

To launch the Web App, I used this code in the Desktop App:

[code] Using Xojo.IO

dim theWebServerResourcesPath, theWebServerDocsPath As FolderItem
dim thePath as text

theWebServerResourcesPath = SpecialFolder.GetResource( “MyWebAppFolderName” )

thePath = theWebServerResourcesPath.Child( “MyWebAppName” ).path
thePath = “’” + thePath.ReplaceAll( “/”, “’/’” ) + “’” // wrap all parts of the path in quotes

MsgBox thePath

app.theShell = new Shell
app.theShell.Mode = 1
app.theShell.Execute( thePath )[/code]

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