[Opensim-users] Any plans on supporting the display of web

[Daniel]

At the moment, I'm trying to "expand" the web functionality of OpenSim by integrating a webbrowser control. With the help of that control the user would be able to interact on a webpage displayed on a texture by sending the coordinates of his mouse to that control. Furthermore, an instance of the Internet Explorer running in the background could be used with these coords to manage different user interactions like link forwarding or editing form fields. As a result the updated webpage is rendered with the IElementRenderer to a temporary image file that is send back to the texture in OpenSim. 

I know that this solution is limited in various ways (and is not compatible with *nix servers) but it is one possibility to go apart from picidae.net and get independent. For me, it is a first step to achieve a separate webbrowser control in OpenSim. 


-DAniel


2009/9/14 Robert Klein <rtkwebman at gmail.com>

> >
> > Really? You mean under mono like OpenSim does? Never thought about that and
> > I
> > did not see any docs about it. Unfortunately that still leaves me with the
> > over the top rendering requirements to really do RealXtend justice.
> >
> > -Robert
> >
> >
> > Jeroen van Veen wrote:
>   
>> > >
>> > > "I don't want to go the route of realxtend due to it not running on a*nix
>> > > server"
>> > >
>> > > It does run fine on linux servers.  :-) 
>> > >
>> > > On Friday 11 September 2009 17:43:05 Robert Klein wrote:
>>     
>>> > >> Hey Charles,
>>> > >> What about being able to display an actual web page in realtime like the
>>> > >> realxtend viewer does? I have several of the static "web page on a prim"
>>> > >> boards using picidai.net running on my company's internal opensim, but
>>> > >>  after playing with the functionality of realxtend.. well what we have
>>>       
> > in
>   
>>> > >>  opensim does not compare. In this day and age having the ability to at
>>> > >>  least view a functioning web page in real time and see it updating is
>>> > >>  crucial to business/educational users. Being able to interact with that
>>> > >>  web page would be incredible. VNC would be cool too.
>>> > >>
>>> > >> I know there are plenty of work arounds for emulating this
>>>       
> > functionality,
>   
>>> > >>  it would be great to just have it built-in. I don't want to go the
>>>       
> > route
>   
>>> > >>  of realxtend due to it not running on a*nix server, plus different
>>>       
> > users
>   
>>> > >>  with different graphics cards get much different experiences.
>>> > >>
>>> > >> Is anyone even working on this kind of functionality in opensim/hippo?
>>> > >>
>>> > >> -Robert
>>> > >>
>>> > >> Charles Krinke wrote:
>>>       
>>>> > >> > Well, web pages on a prim are not necessarily a characteristic of the
>>>> > >> > client.
>>>> > >> >
>>>> > >> > What we have been doing for the last couple of years is displaying web
>>>> > >> > pages on prims in OpenSim and using an external helping web site for
>>>> > >> > picture formatting such as picidai.net.
>>>> > >> >
>>>> > >> > There are a series of prims spread around OSGrid and the OSGrid forums
>>>> > >> > have the script source. One of the prims doing web pages on a prim is
>>>>         
>>> > >> on
>>>       
>>>> > >> > Wright Plaza and has been working reliably for over a year.
>>>> > >> >
>>>> > >> > Charles
>>>> > >> >
>>>> > >> >
>>>> > >> >
>>>> > >> >
>>>> > >> > ________________________________
>>>> > >> > From: Robert Klein <rtkwebman at gmail.com>
>>>> > >> > To: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
>>>> > >> > Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 7:30:42 AM
>>>> > >> > Subject: [Opensim-users] Any plans on supporting the display of web
>>>> > >> > pages?
>>>> > >> >
>>>> > >> >
>>>> > >> > I know the realxtend viewer can display web pages on a prim, but what
>>>> > >> > about
>>>> > >> > support for this in Hippo? Any chance of this happening in the next 3
>>>>         
> > -
>   
>>> > >> 6
>>>       
>>>> > >> > months?
>>>>         
>>> > >>
>>>       
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