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is a little demo of the ALPFrame and Active Local Pages. It runs without
installation - you just download it and start ALPFrame.exe. The
same can be done for substantial applications that do something of
actual importance.
ALPFrame features
ALPFrame is a browser based that integrates both the Microsoft
Internet Explorer's rendering engine and the Active Local Pages
engine. As such it is not just a browser, but a platform on which
ALP applications can run benefiting of the enhancements in ALPFrame.
In ALPFrame you can use DHTML object model you know from Internet
Explorer (ALPFrame uses the IE), but you can also access certain
features not available in IE:
- You can maintain dynamic menus in the browser window
- You can maintain dynamic flying menus (context menus for
example)
- You have more control over the window appearance, you can put it
on top, change the border, move it around the screen,
minimize/maximize it, remove the caption or make it small etc.
- You can configure ALPFrame to run your application without a setup
- as long as the application dependencies allow this of course (for
example this will be inappropriate for an application that
integrates let say with MS Outlook, but it will be desired for a
catalog or encyclopedia).
For more information see www.activelocalpages.com
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Samples in this package
Go to the samples area
This demo package contains a subset of the samples distributed
with the full Active Local Pages download for developers.
The samples catalog itself can be perceived as a sample as well.
It uses the ALPFrame menus and SQL database (through SQLite COM). It
is quite simple and implemented in a single page (samples/samples.asp).
The other samples vary from ALP basics to ALP Run-time library
usage demos.
Perhaps you will be interested mostly in the several samples
about the dynamic menus usage in ALPFrame, the TESTPC samples that
show how you can build your own pages intended to determine the
situation on the machine where they work, the SQLite COM examples
which illustrate usage of the embedded database engine in ALP which
is independent and thus suitable for scenarios in which you cannot
count for sure on anything else, the Networking examples which show
how to implement custom network features.
Note that some of the Composite objects examples illustrate
techniques that may require you to be an administrator or at
least power user on your machine.
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