Anzio in a web page

[Bob Rasmussen]

Hi all,

I'm looking for some early feedback on a new flavor of Anzio, namely Anzio
as an ActiveX object, which can be embedded in a web page in Internet
Explorer (and possibly other browsers). An example page is here:

   https://www.anzio.com/~ras/anzio152/browndemo.htm

The tricky part can be to get IE to allow you to install this object,
which is not yet signed. You may need to list "https://www.anzio.com" as a
trusted site, and also allow unsigned ActiveX objects to run.

Once you're over that hurdle, you should see a telnet session within a
browser window. In this case, the telnet goes to the library at Brown
University. (I picked that one because it has lots of international
books cataloged, which can exercise Anzio's automatic font logic.) Enter a
"C" then a "Y" and you're running.

If you look at the source for the page above, you will see that it is
quite simple. The settings file location, the hostname (URL) to access
(including username and password), the keys file name, and the terminal
type can be specified as parameters. The settings file and keys file can
load from a URL.

This is a rough draft, so some things may not work. But 99.9% of it is
well tested AnzioWin code. It has the full passthrough print logic,
including the Print Wizard engine (as configured, it will print to your
default printer).

Is this of use to anybody? Are there any gotchas I should be aware of?
As always, I seek your input.

It should also be possible to embed this in a VB program, for instance,
but I haven't tested that yet.

Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

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