The application is primarily designated to IT companies, sellers, analysts, managers, or developers, which would like to improve the UI/UX of their systems for their customers or end-users as an additional improvement. Suitable especially for corporate systems like Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Supply Chain Management (SCM), and other systems supporting the business.
❗ If you want to try the solution, read the whole description of the application first, please. Then install the DISTRIBUTOR edition of the application (available free on MS Store as well) in order to create a distribution package containing the widgets. Finally, install the TRIAL edition of the application (also free and available on MS Store) to check out the WYSIWYG and behavior of the widgets like your end-user would get.
MAIN ADVANTAGES IN COMPARISON TO MAJORITY WIDGET SOLUTIONS:
✅ Ability to make executable apps to become the widgets.
✅ Simple controlling with powerful possibilities of widgets.
✅ Make distributable package (.dwe file) encapsulating your widgets to be distributed (or additionally selled) to your end users.
HOW IT WORKS:
❶ Consider what kind of data can be interesting for your customers (depending on the kind of your current application), i.e. waiting or completed orders per day or last week, etc.
❷ Decide what kinds of the widgets can be useful for your end-users, i.e. Label, Line/Bar Chart, Table, etc. for displaying the data.
❸ Develop simple desktop applications with a few controls which fetch the data from SQL server database, REST endpoints, or web services considering user roles and access control privileges. These simple application must deals as the autonomous portable apps.
❹ Register your apps as the widgets in DISTRIBUTOR edition of the Advanced FlexiWidgets application by a few following steps:
➀ Install and launch the DISTRIBUTOR edition of the application.
➁ Click on the "STOP" item in notify icon menu (the icon appears in the tray bar).
➂ Click on the "Widget Registration" item in notify icon menu.
➃ Click on the "Add Widget" button in appeared "Widget Registration" Form.
➄ Enter custom abbreviation for your widget, path to widget's folder and executable file, and finally "Register New Widget"
➅ Repeat 5th step for all your selected portable desktop apps.
➆ Launch the widgets to set their initial size, position, and behaviour (as they will be defaultly shown at your end-users).
➇ Click on the "Prepare Distribution" button.
➈ Fill up the text arrays, output path, and select 16x16 icon representing your company (i.e. your logo).
➉ Click on the "Create Distribution" button on the bottom to get a *.dwe file as a distributable widget package for your end users.
Note that launched widgets in DISTRIBUTOR and TRIAL editions of the application are shown for 60s, then they become invisible, due to
prevent using this edition as regular paid END-USER edition. If you want to see them again, restart the widget engine using STOP/START
sequence.
❺ Distribute your .dwe widgets installation packages to your end users as a paid or free extension of your application.
(Every of the end-users should buy one of the END USER editions (per machine) beside your .dwe widget distribution file.)
MAIN FEATURES OF THE PRODUCT:
✅ Universal solution that makes you able to make desktop widget from portable desktop application (almost any executable desktop application),
✅ The widgets can be shown always as the top windows or as the bottom windows like a part of your desktop background,
✅ The widgets can interact using mouse or keyboard if needed, otherwise they do not accept mouse or keyboard commands and whole interaction is passed to the windows located under the widgets.
✅ There is possibility to switch between different Widget modes using keyboard (2x Ctrl press) or mouse cursor position (Y=0 location)
✅ You can distribute your widgets to your end-users using .dwe file, which can be easily load into non-DISTRIBUTOR editions of the application.
✅ You can use your own 16x16 icon (i.e. as a logo of your company) in tray bar to open the widget controlling menu.
✅ There is no need to make any additional configurations or interventions to your current application,
✅ The widgets can be configurable separately or as a whole set of widgets,
BRIEF RUNNING WIDGET CONTROLLING:
Running Widgets can be controlled anytime using following commands:
⏵ 2x Ctrl press - switches between four modes (widgets on top/bottom, interaction using mouse and keyboard enabled/disabled)
⏵ 2x Context Menu key press - makes widgets visible/invisible (usefull when you want to temporarily hide widget content)
⏵ by keeping the mouse cursor on the top of screen for 1,5 sec. (where cursor's Y-cordinate equals to 0) to switch the widgets between:
top-most position + 100% opacity + enabled interaction, or
bottom-most position + 50% opacity + disabled interaction.
OTHER NOTES:
● Target architecture for installing: x86, x64
● The application have to be used on the screen with 100% scale setting.
● Available editions of the application:
1.) DISTRIBUTOR - contains feature to make distribution file containing the widgets. Free.
2.) END USER W3 - allows to operate max. 3 widgets on your desktop. Paid.
3.) END USER W7 - allows to operate max. 7 widgets on your desktop. Paid.
4.) END USER W7 PLUS - allows to operate 7+ widgets on your desktop. Paid.
5.) TRIAL - provides the same features as END USER W7 PLUS but it is dedicated to test out the END USER edition of the application. NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY. Free.
✉ In case of any questions about the product do not hesitate to contact us at info@aplicsoft.com
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