Webmap and Electron

This repo provides an example of how to package your legacy VB6, Powerbuilder or Delphi applications modernized with WebMap to Windows and Mac Desktop apps using Electron

Electron (formerly known as Atom Shell) is an open-source framework developed and maintained by GitHub. Electron allows for the development of desktop GUI applications using web technologies: It combines the Chromium rendering engine and the Node.js runtime. Electron is the main GUI framework behind several notable open-source projects including Atom, GitHub Desktop,[9] Light Table, Visual Studio Code, and WordPress Desktop

Using the SKS demo we will show how easy is this conversion.

Just follow these steps:

• Create a directory called Electron
• Switch to that directory
• Clone SKS WebMap running

git clone https://github.com/MobilizeNet/SKSWebMap.git

• Clone SKS Electron running

git clone https://github.com/MobilizeNet/SKSElectron.git

• Build binaries for Win64 and OSX. Swith to SKSWebMap and run:

dotnet publish -c Release -r osx-x64

dotnet publish -c Release -r win-x64

• After compilation you will have two folders under SKSWebMap\bin\Release\netcoreapp2.2 called osx-x64 and win-x64 copy these two folder to SKSElectron\api

• Go to SKSElectron and run npm install

• After instalation you can run electron . to test your app inside electron or run electron-builder to build your binaries for windows and mac

NOTE: on some computers the you need to run the electron-builder by running node_modules\.bin\electron-builder

And that's all after that you will have a folder Electron\dist with an exe that is your installer for a Windows Desktop App. You can run the same on a Mac to build binaries fror OSX