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Instant forum for your site0
Ran posted in Bindows Clients on August 25th, 2010

A turnkey solution - add a Forum to your site

The BarracudaDrive Bulletin Board, provided by Real_Time_Logic is a free application delivered with the BarracudaDrive Web Server.

The BarracudaDrive Bulletin Board is powered by Bindows “zero-footprint” Rich Internet Application framework.

The bulletin board, which is designed using cutting edge web-technology, looks and behaves more like a traditional Windows application than a web application.

To see the BarracudaDrive Bulletin Board: http://barracudaserver.com/products/BarracudaDrive/BulletinBoard.lsp

No technical experience is needed

The free bulletin board requires no installation or configuration. The BarracudaDrive Web Server’s integrated database engine makes it possible for us to deliver a zero configuration bulletin board — i.e. there is no need for you to install a database and connect the bulletin board to the database.

The Bulletin Board is one of five plugins delivered with the BarracudaDrive Web Server.

Advantages

• Fast
  After the initial load, the bulletin board is extremely fast since the bulletin board is using web services when communicating with the server. Traditional bulletin boards must send the whole page content to the client every time the user interacts with the bulletin board. In contrast, our bulletin board only sends the changed content, making it very fast even on slow network connections. One can easily host a high volume forum from a home computer with a DSL connection.
• Spam Prevention
  Many bulletin boards, such as phpBB, get infested with spam. Spammers use automated computer programs to: trawl the internet for public bulletin boards, automatically register with the bulletin boards found, and infest the bulletin boards with spam. Since our bulletin board is using web-services, a spammer would have to write a very sophisticated program in order to spam the BarracudaDrive bulletin board. In addition, our bulletin board includes an optional spam filter that forces new users to play a hangman game and prove they are human beings and not spam machines before they can register.
• Private or Public Forum
  With one button click, you can select a public forum or a private forum that can only be accessed by users with a valid BarracudaDrive user account. See our blog for articles and tips for how you can manage your bulletin board.

Bindows 5 = HTML52
Ran posted in Developing in Bindows, JavaScript, Uncategorized on May 26th, 2010

Coming soon in a browser near you!

Oracle/Hyperion Customers - Support for IE8 and Firefox 3.60
Ran posted in Bindows Clients, Bindows Global Partnership Program, Developing in Bindows, In the press, Marketing, Special Pricing on May 14th, 2010

Hyperion web software is making use of our Bindows technology.
Several Oracle/Hyperion customers contacted us, complaining that their systems do not run in IE8.
Oracle/Hyperion systems that use Bindows 3.0 - this version of Bindows does not support IE8 and Firefox 3.6 (however, Bindows 4.1 does support them).

Several suggestions have been posted on the web showing how to modify Bindows 3.0 files to enable such support.
Those suggestions are not accurate and not complete.

WARNING: Modifying and using modified Bindows files without a license is illegal and constitutes a Copyright Infringement.

We have developed a solution that enables applications using Bindows 3.0 to operate in IE8 and Firefox 3.6.
The solution has been tried and tested - references available upon request.
The solution includes a license that allows using the files that we provide.

Price
The complete solution includes:
* Several Bindows files, modified by us that enable running Bindows 3.0 in IE8 and Firefox 3.6.
* A license for your company to use the files we provide.
* Support is not included (can be purchased separately).

Price starts at $5,000 for the first CPU, quantity discounts available (if you are located in GA local sales tax will be added).

Contact
General Information: info@bindows.net
Partners: ran@bindows.net
Sales: sales@bindows.net

InfiView 2.1 Released0
Ran posted in InfiView, JavaScript on April 15th, 2010

We are happy to release InfiView 2.1 today.

The major improvement in InfiView 2.1 is that it is built on Bindows 4.1 which supports the latest versions of all the major browsers, including IE8, Firefox 3.6, Safari 4, and Chrome.

Read more about this version at:
http://www.infiview.com/dev/infiview21.html.

For a limited time, the InfiView Framework Developer’s Kit is provided for FREE (not including source code).
To download it go to: http://www.infiview.com/download/

Customers with covered maintenance will receive the full retail version (including source code) directly.

Groovy++ v0.2 Available0
Ran posted in Groovy++ on April 10th, 2010

Groovy++ is an exciting project we sponsor. The project leader is our Alex Tkachman.

So what is Groovy++?

Groovy++ is statically typed extension of the Groovy programming language.
Groovy++ provides high performance to compiled code and to compile type checks.

Additionally to all goodies of standard Groovy it adds a lot of functionality:

* compile time checking of code
* as fast as Java performance of compiled code
* easy mixing of statically and dynamically typed code
* very powerful type inference
* tail recursion
* traits (interfaces with default implementation)
* extension methods (compile time categories)
* standard library of utilities for functional programming, concurrency and distributed computing (early prototype stage)

We are always happy to answer questions in the Groovy++ Discussion Group.
So you are always welcome there both to learn more and share your experience with us.
At the end of the day we develop Groovy++ not only for ourselves but for you, our users.

Bindows 4.1 Released Today0
Ran posted in Beta Programs, Marketing on March 31st, 2010

We are proud to release Bindows 4.1 today. The release comes after a long and thorough beta program.

Bindows 4.1 supports the latest versions of all the major browsers, including IE8, Firefox 3.6, Safari 4, and Chrome.

This version also includes several new features (key bundles, collapsible panel, threestate checkbox) and several additional improvements.

Read more about this version at:
http://www.bindows.net/documentation/Bindows41.html

You can download a free evaluation developer package at:
http://www.bindows.net/download/evaluate.html

Customers with covered maintenance receive the full retail version automatically.

New InfiView Reseller in China1
Ran posted in Bindows Global Partnership Program, InfiView, Marketing on March 30th, 2010

Panyan Technology Co., Ltd (ComponentCN)

We are proud to introduce our a new reseller in China for Bindows and InfiView - Panyan Technology Co., Ltd (ComponentCN)
ComponentCN specializes in selling professional component products in mainland China. It has a comprehensive marketing channel, and an excellent technical support and service team.
For full contact details, see our InfiView Partners page.

Bindows Partner in Latin America0
Ran posted in Bindows Global Partnership Program, Marketing on February 1st, 2010

We are proud to introduce our partner in Latin America for Bindows, BindowsFaces and InfiView - Oh!STUDIO from Argentina.
For full details, see our Bindows Spanish page.

Bindows 4.1 beta - Released Today0
Ran posted in Beta Programs, Developing in Bindows on January 14th, 2010

Today we start the Bindows 4.1 beta program.

This beta program will test several new features (key bundles, collapsible panel, threestate checkbox) and additional improvements.
For more details: http://www.bindows.net/documentation/Bindows41Beta.html .

You can download a free evaluation package at: http://www.bindows.net/download/download_beta.html .
Customers with covered maintenance will receive the full retail version automatically.

InfiView 2.0 Released Today!0
Ran posted in InfiView on December 22nd, 2009

After a thorough beta process, we are happy to release InfiView 2.0 today.

This version is based on Bindows 4.0 and includes several major additions:
- Support for WebKit browsers (such as Safari-4 and Chrome)
- Support of IE8, Firefox 3+
- Support for nested groups
- Support for external resources
- Simplified launcher format
- New event actions
- New layout algorithm

Read more about this version at:
http://www.infiview.com/dev/infiview20.html

You can download a free developer package at: http://www.infiview.com/download/
Customers with covered maintenance will receive the full retail version automatically.

Bindows Tools - New plugin for IntelliJ IDEA 90
Ran posted in Developing in Bindows on October 27th, 2009

As many of you might already know we have a plugin out there called ”Bindows Plugin”, that help with development of Bindows applications in IntelliJ IDEA. JetBrains changed a number of things in IntelliJ IDEA 8 which broke our plugin. To be honest, we haven’t had the time to fix it and soon IntelliJ IDEA 9 will be released with even more changes introduced. Most notably, JetBrains dropped its support for internal browser windows and we used several of those in the Bindows Plugin.

So we built a new plugin from scratch. It’s called Bindows Tools and you install it normally from the plugin manager inside IntelliJ IDEA. It is a facet that you attach to your project module and includes features such as:

- live templates
- code completion for Bindows xml
- ADF launcher
- support for switching between multiple Bindows distributions (or toolkits as we call them now)
- customizable html launcher files also allows for launching InfiView applications
- cross platform support (Windows, Mac and Linux)
- multiple browsers support

In addition to this, JetBrains has added some great new JavaScript and Bindows aware features since IntelliJ IDEA v7.

To try the plugin, download IntelliJ IDEA v9 ultimate (ideaIU-90.xxx).
The pre-release version can be found here: http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/IDEADEV/Maia+EAP

The plugin homepage in JetBrains plugin repository is here: http://plugins.intellij.net/plugin/?id=4503

And our page with information about the plugin can be found here:
http://www.bindows.net/documentation/tools/intellij_plugin/

3rd Movie - Infinite Memory0
Ran posted in InfiView, JavaScript, Marketing on October 16th, 2009

A cool, short movie describing InfiView’s unique memory management technology.

InfiView - Infinite Memory Feature Presentation from infiview on Vimeo.

If you like it, please share with others (blog, tweet, email, etc.)

And don’t forget, the InfiView Developer Kit is still provided for FREE.
Don’t miss on this special!
Just go to www.InfiView.com and click on the Download button.

Enjoy

New Movie - The InfiView Layers0
Ran posted in Developing in Bindows, InfiView, JavaScript, Marketing, Special Pricing on September 25th, 2009

A cool, short movie describing the capabilities of InfiView’s Layers technology.

Watch it at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep21_JIJP44

If you like it, please share with others (blog, tweet, email, etc.)

And don’t forget, the InfiView Developer Kit is still provided for FREE.
Don’t miss on this special!
Just go to www.InfiView.com and click on the Download button.

Enjoy

InfiView - Developer Kit is FREE!0
Ran posted in Beta Programs, InfiView, Special Pricing on September 18th, 2009

Due to the huge success of InfiView 2.0 (beta) we decided to provide the InfiView Developer Kit for FREE (usually priced at $195).
The kit comes with 12 months of free updates.

This is a special, limited time offer.

Don’t miss on this special!
Just go to www.InfiView.com and click on the Download button.

FREE Bindows Gauges - New Version Released0
Ran posted in Bindows Gauges on September 14th, 2009

We released a new version of the FREE Bindows gauges
(http://www.bindows.net/free_gauges/).

The Bindows gauges can be used with IE 5.5+ and Firefox, and now, also with WebKit browsers such as Chrome and Safari-4.

If you like the Bindows gauges - don’t be shy and tweet about it

Watch the InfiView 2.0 short movie0
Ran posted in Beta Programs, InfiView on September 8th, 2009

Watch it at: www.InfiView.com

If you like it, please share with others (blog, tweet, email, etc.)

Enjoy

InfiView 2.0 Beta - Released Today1
Ran posted in Beta Programs, InfiView, JavaScript on August 21st, 2009

Today we proudly introduce InfiView 2.0 beta (http://www.infiview.com/).

This version is based on Bindows 4.0 and includes several major additions:
- Support for WebKit browsers (such as Safari-4 and Chrome)
- Support of IE8
- Support for nested groups
- Support for external resources
- Simplified launcher format
- New event actions

You can download a free evaluation package at: http://www.infiview.com/download/
Customers with covered maintenance will receive the full retail version automatically.

Bindows using ASP .NET0
Johan Segerfeldt posted in Bindows Clients, Bindows Gauges, Developing in Bindows on March 23rd, 2009

Today a customer made me aware of the fact that we have no sample for
creating Bindows apps using ASP .Net. He wanted a sample on how to add a
gauge and setting dynamic properties in the XML definition.

Of course we need ASP .Net samples. The forum can be seen as a sample on
server communication, but it uses Perl for the backend. I decided to make
a small and simple, yet instructive sample. I hope I was successful.

An application generated from dynamic sources is not much different from one
made of static sources. You still need an ‘HTML file’ and an ‘XML file’.
The difference is that both these ‘files’ are generated on demand and their
content can be different from one request to another based on server logic.

This sample was made using the free gauges. You can download them
here.
It is not difficult to translate the lessons learned in this sample to a
full Bindows application (ADF). Just replace the script in the ‘HTML file’
with application.start(…) or biExec(…) just as you would with static
HTML and XML sources.

For this sample my ‘HTML file’ is Default.aspx, the file that is
automatically generated by the WebSite project template. I edited its
content with the following:

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true"  CodeFile="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="_Default" %>

<html>
<head>
    <title></title>
    <!-- Load free Bindows Gauges package -->
    <script type="text/javascript" src="bindows_gauges/bindows_gauges.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<p>This is a very simple sample displaying a gauge.</p>
<div id="gaugeDiv" style="width: 250px; height: 250px;"></div>

<script type="text/javascript">
  var gauge = bindows.loadGaugeIntoDiv("Gauge.aspx", "gaugeDiv");
  function setNeedleValue(nValue) {
      gauge.needle.setValue(nValue);
      gauge.value.setText(nValue);
  }

//  setNeedleValue(25);
  gauge.unit.setText("[kW]");
</script>
</body>
</html>

Then I added a new aspx file (Gauge.aspx) using a random template. This
also created a code-behind file (Gauge.aspx.cs) that I deleted. Because I
deleted that I also edited the file header of the aspx file to remove the
reference. All I kept was this bit:

<%@ Page Language="C#" %>

In the content I pasted the sample gauge from the free gauges package and
edited it up a bit to suit my purposes. I added a <% %>
section at the top, where I initialized some C# variables:

<%
	// Two values setting the start locations for warning hints on the gauge scale.
	// These could be configured from user preferences.
	int warnLow = 25;
	int warnHigh = 180;
	int value = 125;

	// Error handling / range assertions.
	if (warnLow > warnHigh)
		throw new ArgumentException("The low range must be less than the high range.");
	else if (warnHigh < 0 || warnLow < 0 || value  300 || warnLow > 300 || value > 300)
		throw new ArgumentException("Values must be between 0 - 300.");
%>

Further down in the gauge XML I referenced these variables. Here’s an example:

<Gauge2RadialScale startValue="0" endValue="300">
	<!-- Needle -->
	<Gauge2RadialNeedle id="needle" value="<%=value%>" stroke="#000000" strokeWidth="3"
						innerRadius="0" innerWidth="40"
						outerRadius="360" outerWidth="5">
		<Gauge2RadialNeedle.Filler>
			<Gauge2RadialGradientFiller color1="#808080" color2="#000000"/>
		</Gauge2RadialNeedle.Filler>
	</Gauge2RadialNeedle>
</Gauge2RadialScale>

View Gauge.aspx source

Download entire web site source code (ZIP).

New Menu Implementation2
Johan Segerfeldt posted in Developing in Bindows, Disruptive tech on March 3rd, 2009

Introduction

Browsers have changed since the first menu implementations of Bindows were created. New restrictions caused various issues for our old menu implementations. For Bindows 4.0, I have been working on a brand new implementation written with these restrictions in mind. As a bonus, we now have nicer themes and we can expand the range of browsers we support. I hope you like what we’ve created.

Reasons for the change

In Bindows 3.0 (and previous versions) we had two different implementations for menus, XUL popups for Firefox and WebFX DHTML Menus 4 for Internet Explorer. These implementations allowed menus to be displayed anywhere on the screen. In Bindows 4.0 we have discarded these implementations and wrote a brand new one. Apart from unifying the two browsers, there are few additional reasons for this.

Security issues

The ability to display a popup anywhere can be used maliciously (e.g. by hiding and impersonating an element of the main browser window). Since these implementations were first created, browser security patches have forbidden popups from being displayed outside the window (or even the frame) where they were created. As a result, Bindows menus that were placed near the bottom edge of the window/frame displayed some strange behavior. We were able to solve several of these issues, but some proved too difficult.

Additional browser support

Bindows 4.0 introduces support for WebKit based browsers (i.e. Safari and Google Chrome). Neither of the menu implementations would work for these browsers, so we would have to add a new implementation anyway. We might as well write one that would work for all browsers, and solve our menu issues at the same time.

API Changes

As a result of the new implementation there has been one major API change. The left and top properties no longer relate to the screen, but to the parent component (which is usually the BiApplicationWindow).

Two new methods have been added: popupAtComponent(oComponent) and popupAtMouse(oMouseEvent). The first sets the component property and displays the menu just below oComponent. The latter uses the mouse coordinates (from oMouseEvent) to display the menu.

Themes

The fact that we have a single implementation for all supported browsers means we also have only one set of CSS styles (for each theme), which applies to all users. When we created our brand new themes for Bindows 4.0, we took this opportunity to revamp the theme properties for menus, making the CSS classes consistent with the rest of Bindows. Your old themes will not be compatible with Bindows 4.0 without some changes. The good news is that we have many compatible themes, free to download at http://www.bindows.net/download/themes/.

Bindows 4.0 Released - Try it with Safari 4 and Chrome0
Ran posted in Beta Programs, Marketing, Special Pricing on February 26th, 2009

We are proud to release Bindows 4.0 today.
The release comes after the longest and most thorough beta program (three beta rounds) in the Bindows history.

Bindows 4.0 includes four major additions:

* A completely redesigned menu system - best in the market
* Initial support for new browsers (IE8, FF3, WebKit 525+, Chrome, upcoming Safari version)
* Exciting new looks - 6 new themes and a powerful theme engine (so you can create your own)
* Enable development of complete Ajax applications without writing a single line of JavaScript!

For a comprehensive description of the new features:
http://www.bindows.net/documentation/40/

Bindows customers with covered maintenance, will receive the FULL retail version automatically.

Bindows 4.0 beta program participants are eligible to purchase developer licenses at a 50% discount, until March 10, 2009 (to purchase, please contact sales@bindows.net).

As always, we would be glad to hear your thoughts and comments.

Enjoy the new version.
The Bindows Team