General Overview
Look out for a new release of Boxely in Summer 2008!
This will be an exciting release where we will be introducing SDKs for the following platforms:
- Windows XP & Vista
- Mac OS X
Stay tuned!
Boxely™ is a new rapid development platform, complete with a toolkit for creating rich, dynamic user interfaces.
Combining the benefits of a box-based layout scheme with an advanced rendering engine, Boxely is designed to enable the creation of rich desktop applications with the same ease, flexibility, and extensibility as authoring internet applications today.
The Boxely UI Toolkit uses XML and Javascript which empowers you to rapidly prototype and create applications without having to know complicated programming languages. If you already know how to create a web application using HTML and Javascript, then you're more than halfway there to creating a Boxely application!
Features
Advanced Visual Effects - Animations, transitions and drop-shadows are just the few of Boxely's impressive visual effects.
Rapid Application Development - No time? No problem! A library of pre-built UI components allows you to quickly create functional applications.
Accommodate More with Less Effort - Accessibility and localization are an integral part of Boxely, allowing you to easily cater to a diverse market.
Extensible Platform - Don't let yourself be limited! Extend functionality using ActiveX controls and the Open Client Platform.
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What's New
by Kurt Cagle
APRil 2 2007
In the first article of this series, Kurt Cagle showed how to create a Boxely window and add boxes and buttons. In this article, Kurt illustrates how to apply services and styles to create a complete interactive Boxely application. Go to article...
The Font of Wisdom: A Basic Boxely App, Part 1
by Kurt Cagle
MARch 27 2007
Boxely mixes the flexibility of XML with object-oriented JavaScript to enable building sophisticated desktop applications. Kurt Cagle provides step-by-step instructions on how to construct a Boxely application in the first article of his FontViewer series. Go to article...
Thinking Inside the Boxely
by Kurt Cagle
FEBruary 23 2007
Boxely is a powerful and robust application framework that uses XML to describe a GUI-based application. In this introduction, Kurt Cagle discusses Boxely's roots in XUL, graphical widgets and features, data binding using JSON and XML, and more. Go to article...
On the Horizon
Boxely Builder
An application that streamlines the production of Boxely applications.
Boxely Trace
A tool that helps debugging in Boxely.