BrowserBob 4 Developer Edition

BrowserBob Developer Edition, the new Drag & Drop smart application maker is THE authoring solution for creating smart, multi-functional applications via Drag & Drop, integrating any Web technology and media (HTML, Flash, videos, JavaScript, docs, etc.) t

Create rich Internet applications, real eBooks, presentations, multimedia CDs, custom browsers, portal solutions, media players - any GUI...

The BrowserBob smart applications authoring environment opens the door to a new way of presenting, accessing and processing online and offline information. Its flexible, open environment allows integration and interaction with any web technology, even future technologies not yet available...

Here are some key features of "BrowserBob 4 Developer Edition":

Generate these types of programs with few clicks:

￭ EXE program: single standalone executable windows program (single file only). Packs all files into a single executable file, which you can publish or distribute easily.

￭ Setup program: custom-setup-wrapper for your application. Creates a real branded setup program around your application. ￭ Raw files: create all files into a folder for CD/DVD deployment, to create setups with 3rd party setup makers or to integrate your application into other application structures.

Available Drag & Drop objects for assembling your program

￭ Main Dialog object: the user interface of your application, where other objects are placed. The Main Dialog is the main window, the platform for other objects and also the object that represents the whole application, it's the basis for your project.

￭ Main Web object: the content window of your progra, where content is displayed and processed. This window "understands" all file types & technology of the web, like a browser window. Here you may specify a startpage for your application, a possible custom user agent and general behaviour of new windows requested by the application.

￭ Button object: a button or push-button is a graphical item, that can invoke a certain action by clicking. It's used for standard functionality (back, forward, print, copy, etc.), as link button, image button etc.. You can place unlimited numbers of buttons on your application and trigger any BrowserBob functionality using buttons. Button functionality is conveniently selected via a menu with predefined behaviours (actions). Own functionality can be added using scripting...

￭ Web objects: add additional web objects to the user interface, with separate startpages, for display of additional content, banners, videos, any web media, or for the creation of web based navigation for your Main Web window. Additional web objects give you more HTML windows to place on the Main Dialog or on Panels. You can display and process any web content or web logic there.

￭ Panel objects: panel objects are graphical windows which serve as aggregational fundament for other objects like buttons, web objects and so on. Panels can be defined as "free" (independent) or having a relative position towards the Main Dialog of the program. Panels can also be used as drop down menus. Additionally they serve as user interface for custom setups for the setup wrapper.

￭ Edit object: an edit object is an editable text field. Depending on assigned properties it can serve as addressbar for web objects, as well as for standard text input and processing.

￭ Label object: a label object is a text field that can display the title of a web page, the applications (browser-) status messages, or customized text, which can be predefined or retrieved from variables.

Adding content, functionality and logic to your applications

￭ Additional files: manage additional files, which you want to include with the finished application. Here you add, organize and delete files and folders, which you want to ship with your application (offline content, multimedia files, documents and more...). All files included here can be conveniently linked via the context sensitive parameter selection.

￭ Content: manage your content with browse sequences and additional button functions, for use with eBooks, presentations, ... Define chapters and subchapters and chapter navigation. Structure online and offline content.

￭ Objects library: the library provides functionality for saving BrowserBob objects including their properties for Drag & Drop use. You can save complete objects including their properties (e.g. a "back button" or your branded setup panel including all setup buttons). It contains basic sets of buttons and other controls to get you started quickly.

￭ Scanning: scan for strings or expressions in URLs, status messages, page titles, and react with any BrowserBob action. Block access to certain URL's or file types, change the user interface depending on media accessed and much more. Content triggered program functionality. Add smart logic to your program using logical expressions within your scanning. Create negative or positive lists of URLs or content to be be accessed...

￭ Script extensions: trigger application behaviour out of HTML-pages, send commands to the BrowserBob application, change interfaces, read info from the application in order to process it further via a script, use all BrowserBob functionality triggered from the code of your webpage with BrowserBob's HTML - Script extension.

￭ States: define different instances of your application. A BrowserBob application can change the whole user interface including functionality on the fly. Using States, multiple applications can be created in a single one. Additionally you can define a special state for popup windows.

Requirements:

￭ 500 MHZ Pentium or faster PC ￭ 128 MB RAM ￭ 30 MB free HDD space

Limitations:

￭ 30 days trial