B4J Question WebView limitation?

[giovit]

I have been using B4J for a while with some nice UI with the included internal visual designer. I always wish to make an application with a more flexible and modern view UI like the one used in the great ABMaterial Framework library, but, without using a browser in order to show the UI. Now I'm totally newbie in web page terminology and interface with B4J, but I would like to know if it is possible to use WebView to render a web form with bootstrap or angular, for example, and pass the parameters or react to certain events in that web form, to and from B4J, through WebView?

if it is not possible, what other alternatives do you suggest to interact with a web page form for a local application, ie without using a remote server or even a local server like ABMaterial?.

Is WebView limited to render only pages made in HTML and CSS, or can include some javascript code?

Can I interact with the contents of the web page shown in a WebView?

Thanks in advance and sorry for my english

 

[Erel]

WebView supports JavaScript. You can use it to browse standard web pages.
You can inject JavaScript with jScriptEngine: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/t...of-a-div-in-webview-solved.38164/#post-225846

I don't think that it is a good idea to create the desktop layout with WebView. You can use CSS to modify the JavaFX layout.

 

[giovit]

Thanks Erel.
After your answer I found a nice library http://www.jfoenix.com/ that looks like what I wish and at the same time using JavaFX as you advise.
my next question is if some one may guide or help me with the steps to follow to wrap the above library in order to use its components with the Internal visual designer.

I'm not sure if I can place this question in this post or I have to create a new one.

once again thanks in advance.

 

[Erel]

Nice find.

See this tutorial: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/t...with-enhanced-designer-support.62488/#content
And specifically jControlsFX source code.