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Rwik
Rwik

Reputation: 91

Web interface for c++ applications

Our company has a set of 3d modeling softwares written in c++ with qt based gui. We are planning to offer these applications to customers to try them from a web browser. I mean to say, we need to create web interfaces for native c++ codes. Please suggest me which technology, languages should be used. If possible please give some links to some white papers or case studies for this kind of projects. I am totally clue less :)

Upvotes: 9

Views: 6098

Answers (5)

Alex Jasmin
Alex Jasmin

Reputation: 39496

Ideally you would keep your c++ code on the server and use a mixture of HTML and Javascript on the browser. However since 3d modeling is so client centric you may have to run some c++ code directly in the browser.

There are a few options to look at:

You could also run a few instances of your application on your server inside an XVnc session and let people use it through a VNC viewer applet. The simplest solution however is still to offer a downloadable demo of your application.

Upvotes: 5

Drewen
Drewen

Reputation: 2936

If creating everything again is too expensive, always you can create a distributed application:

  • One program running the main application in C++ and generating (for example) XML files.

  • A web application reading the XML files generated by the C++ application and translating them into the web application language (for example Adobe Flex).

Good luck!

Upvotes: 0

jpyllman
jpyllman

Reputation: 305

Soon you might be use WebGL to do 3D in the browser. But how long it will take for browsers to include it I do not know. But it might be good to look at it to not rule out using it in the future.

Upvotes: 1

TimW
TimW

Reputation: 8447

Have a look at Wt

Upvotes: 4

bmeric
bmeric

Reputation: 1132

Take a look at Native Client.

Upvotes: 2

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