[Opensim-users] Branded opensim viewers

[Jeff Kelley]

At 10:53 AM -0800 19/2/14, Mic Bowman wrote:

>  for a while simian provided a separate "launcher" application could 
>launch a viewer
>and embed in the login URI your openid credentials (the launcher app 
>when installed
>registered with the internet browser as a handler for a URL scheme). 
>It was pretty nice
>because there was no need to set up login uris in the viewer at all 
>(and you didn't have
>to "login" if you had an authenticated OpenID).


Most viewers parse the invocation arguments for grid and credentials, 
so it is easy to launch them from a command line or another 
executable. I never use the mouse to launch the viewer, instead I 
type 'path_to_exe --loginuri -login' in a terminal, using predefined 
bash variables for different grids, like "impru $OSG" to log into 
OSGrid with Imprudence.

You can easily craft a launcher app which does the same thing.

Passing arguments directly  from a web page to the viewer seems a 
complex issue since handling of external apps may differ from a 
browser to another. Usually, they don't like things that does not 
conform to URI syntax, some hazardous encoding has to be used.



-- Jeff