Running APPX From a Browser

Download the "Appx In A Browser" archive from our web or ftp site. Extract the archive from our web site, putting it in your web server directory. Then edit the appx.html file as needed.

This code will start the client in an applet and present the user with a login box. Make sure the other files from the archive are in the same location as your web page so that they will load when the applet is executed. There is a start up delay while the jar files are downloaded. It is about a 2 megabyte download the first time the page is accessed.

If you have an application you would like all visitors to your site to be able to access you could set up an Appx user for this process. Within Appx, set this user to default to a particular process, such as a menu or input. You can bypass the login box for the client by passing the login information as parameters in the web page. The login box for the client only displays prompts for the information it needs to complete a login. If all the valid login information is available the login process is skipped and the application is started.

All of the command line options that can be set when invoking the client can be set as parameters in the html code. You can control the appearance (such as Window, Web, or Java), the background tiles, font size and color, and many other options with these parameters. A list of the options can be found on our web site for your reference. With these options you can set parameters to control the look and feel of the Appx application you want to present to your users.