Create Desktop Javascript Applications.
With Tint your options are no longer bound to browsers or emulators, use our SDK to build cross-compatible applications or directly interface with Objective-C frameworks or Windows DLL's to create OS-specific functionality.
require('Application');
Window = require('Window');
var mainWindow = new Window();
mainWindow.title = "I'm a native window built in node.";Run an application from a script
$ tint some.jsPrototype functionality quickly in interactive mode
$ tintOr create a standalone Windows or OSX executable
$ tntbuild somedir/package.jsonWith Tint you have options, you can use the SDK to create native applications or use Tint's language bridge to directly interface with Objective-C/C#/C++ or C directly in javascript.
If you don't want to learn (or deal with) native OS languages, you're in luck, there's a wide variety of cross-compatible widgets for javascript to choose from.
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See the wiki's language bridge page for more information on using C++, C# and Objective-C directly in Tint. https://github.com/trueinteractions/tint2/wiki/Tint's-Language-Bridge | OSX | Windows | Linux | iOS | Android
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This is intended as a preview release for Tint 2, currently only supported on OSX and Windows.
Preview releases for Linux (QT), iOS, and Android are in tests at the moment.
Ensure you have Xcode, OSX Mountain Lion, git and Python 2.6 (or 2.7). ```bash mkdir tint cd tint git clone https://github.com/trueinteractions/tint2.git . ./config.sh ./build.sh ./test.sh ``` Ensure you have Visual Studio 2010 (or the free msbuild compiler and Windows SDK 7.0A+), Windows 7, git and Python 2.6 (or 2.7). Building does not require (nor support) cygwin or other shell systems. ```bash mkdir tint cd tint git clone https://github.com/trueinteractions/tint2.git . config.bat build.bat test.bat ``` After building you'll find the binary in ``build/xcode/Release/tint`` or ``build\msvs\Release\tint.exe``. You can also use the Xcode project files or MSVS 2010 files in ``build\xcode`` and ``build\msvs``. Optionally you can use ninja build files that are generated in ``build/ninja/out/Release`` and ``build/ninja/out/Debug`` on posix (OSX only at the moment). If you have issues compiling ensure you're using Python 2.7 or 2.6 (``./config.sh`` (``config.bat`` on Windows) will print out the python version it plans to use). In addition ensure your CC environment variable is set to Xcode's built in clang and not an alternate GCC version. Use ``echo $PYTHON`` (``echo %PYTHON%`` on Windows) and ``echo $CC`` (``echo %CC%`` on Windows) to check to see if any of these are set to alternate versions.On OSX some third-party utility systems such as brew may overwrite these to values that are not compatible with OSX Xcode/clang builds. If you're still having issues you can build using the Xcode project files in ./build/xcode/ directory.
- Application
- Application Schema (app:// protocol for packaged apps)
- Box (Generic segmentation/border/well widget)
- Button (Normal, Toggle, Radio, Checkbox)
- Button Groups (Segmented Buttons)
- Color, Color Picker, ColorWell (ColorLabel)
- Container (Generic view)
- Date Well (Date View, Date Picker)
- Dialogs (Alerts, sheets, etc)
- DropDown
- FileDialog (Save/Open)
- Fonts, Font Managers and FontPanel
- Image Well (Image Views)
- Menu (and MenuItem)
- Notification
- Panels (Inspector and Utility)
- PopOver
- ProgressBar
- Screen Devices
- Scroll (Scroll views)
- SelectInput (Combo Boxes)
- SearchInput (look ahead while typing)
- Slider (range value)
- Split (Divider, Panes)
- Status Bars (System Tray's)
- Tables (Table View)
- TextInput
- Toolbar
- WebView (WebKit)
- Window
- process.bridge (Objective-C objects and execution bridge in OSX, .NET CLR C#/C++ objects and execution bridge in Windows)
// Include the widgets we'll need. Note you can
// individually include Application, TextInput, WebView etc.
require('Common');
// Create the widgets.
var mainWindow = new Window();
mainWindow.visible = true; // show the window
var urlLocation = new TextInput();
var webView = new WebView();
var toolbar = new Toolbar();
var backButton = new Button();
var forwardButton = new Button();
// Images can be a URL or a string representing a built in OS icon.
backButton.image = 'back';
forwardButton.image = 'forward';
// Attach our webview to the window
mainWindow.appendChild(webView);
// everything else goes into the toolbar.
toolbar.appendChild([backButton, forwardButton, 'space', urlLocation, 'space']);
mainWindow.toolbar = toolbar;
// Set some styling.
mainWindow.titleVisible = false;
mainWindow.preferences.animateOnSizeChange = true;
mainWindow.preferences.animateOnPositionChange = true;
urlLocation.alignment = 'center';
urlLocation.linewrap = false;
urlLocation.scrollable = true;
// Attach some listeners to go back/forward and change the URL.
backButton.addEventListener('click',function() { webView.back(); });
forwardButton.addEventListener('click',function() { webView.forward(); });
urlLocation.addEventListener('inputend', function() {
var url = urlLocation.value;
if(url.indexOf(':') == -1) url = "http://"+url;
webView.location = url;
});
webView.addEventListener('load', function() { urlLocation.value = webView.location; });
// Tell the webview to take up as much space in the parent as possible.
webView.left = webView.right = webView.top = webView.bottom = 0;
// Set the URL to somewhere.
webView.location = 'https://www.google.com/';Tint relies on these amazing open source projects. Check them out.
- Node by Joyent+Contributors https://github.com/joyent/node/
- NodObjC https://github.com/TooTallNate/NodObjC/
- Node FFI & FFI Library (Google libffi/node-ffi ?)
- node-ref, node-buffer https://github.com/TooTallNate/
- Cassowary .NET Constraint Solver
- V8 by Google
- (Inspired content also from Edge.JS, although not used).
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