lol, Thats exactly a friend said to me.

I was looking at this https://medium.com/@lorenzoangelini/write-a-lightweight-cross-platform-html5-desktop-app-with-kotlin-1033eb708800

what are the views of using html5 with tornadofx

tornadofx is based on javafx

those two are not comparable at all

I just read the article and I am a bit stumped to be honest. He brings in TornadoFX to build a HTML5 desktop application?

apart from that, if he really wants that, why not skip java/kotlin completely and make a electron appliation (like slack is and atom)

(what do you mean "I am grumpy" 🙂 )

could not help myself, I responded to the article 😉

writing a webserver in C++ is interesting but fun

I agree with you Ron, I think this approach only makes sense if you already have a webapp and want to wrap it in a native window.

if you have a webapplication that needs to be wrapped

exactly

TornadoFX doesn't offer much value added in this regard, just slightly less boiler plate that is inconsequential in such an application IMO.

yeah I would have skipped tornadofx completely and just made a webview the javafx way

I do use HTML5 in my TornadoFX apps, but that's mostly to be able to browse web pages in a certain scope. For example, we can automatically log in a customer in our Control Panel from within our CRM.

that makes sense, it becomes part of the overall application

We have it set up so that you can have multiple open windows on different customers, but the browser instances are separate, so they each only have cookies that identify them as the correct customer etc.

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@ron Webserver in C++?? Aren't you reinventing wheels?

Actually no, as this is going to run on tool and will respond to rest like calls with PLC statuses

even the diagrams of the hardware is going to be served with this (in svg)

Cool 🙂

I've started planning an OLED display for the keyboard, and a built in password manager.

I'll use on chip encryption, so I need to swap out the MCU for something a bit more powerful though.

in the pok3r?

Pretty cool to have your passwords stored in the keyboard, securely. Just enter a master password when you connect the keyboard, and you can hit a key combo, then write the name of the password entry you want to extract, then u to output the username and p to output the password.

POK3R doesn't have anything like that?