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An application that runs stand alone in a desktop or laptop computer. Contrast with "Web-based application," which requires the Web browser to run.

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Java web app as desktop app, which frameworks should I choose?

I need to make a web app that I would be able to install as a desktop application on a client PC (database, jetty+war, firefox/chrome/sth portable). The application is a quite big search app (I MUST use Lucene). There are only few screens, some…
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Color tiles in Windows 10 desktop apps

I noticed with the first big Windows 10 update that some desktop apps have tiles in a different color than the one I have for accent color, like Firefox, which has a dark-gray tile color: However, not all apps have this, and use the default accent…
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Why can't I find Java desktop application in Netbeans 8.0

I downloaded Netbeans 8.0 with all bundle from http://netbeans.org/downloads and installed it successfully on Windows 8. But I can't find Java Desktop Application which should be under Java category when add new project as 6.5 does. Where is it? Or…
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How to measure desktop applicaton usage by users?

I've wrote a app in c# .NET 3.5. People download it and use. I would like to know how many users do this and how many installed it. How to do this?
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Java 7 to be run in 32 bit on mac

I am building a desktop Java application. It uses a third party framework for some low level work (it is in C and I have used JNA). On my Windows Machine, when I do Native.loadLibrary("EDSDK.dll", EdSdkLibrary.class, options); it works perfectly…
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Develop desktop applications view with HTML, as a web application

I am used to develop web applications in Java (Struts, Spring, JSP...). But now I want to develop a desktop one. I never liked to design windows in Java (AWT, Swing, SWT): too much work for an ugly interface. So I think it could be a good idea if…
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Create a desktop application using PHP

I have a PHP/MySQL powered SaaS application which I want to deploy an offline version of. I don't want to use any of the numerous PHP GUI tools that are out there, as this would require rebuilding the GUI and I want it to look exactly the same as…
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Numbers localization in desktop applications

In the number decimal category of Unicode, 460 decimal characters are defined (see this page for some examples). Unfortunately I could not find any character representing a digit regardless of its appearance. As a result, currently only Western…
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Framework for (HTML + JS) Desktop Client

I plan to write a Desktop Client for Windows and Mac. It will be powered by web techniques (HTML + JS). Therefore it shall run on a WebKit engine on the user's desktop. Recently, I saw an interesting approach for this issue: Appcelerator I love its…
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Is there a production-ready cross-OS desktop HTML5 runtime?

Sometimes I think I want to develop a standalone (needing neither a web server nor a browser to run) desktop GUI application for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux using HTML5, CSS and JavaScript to form the GUI. But as far as I know, both Adobe AIR and…
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MVC for Java Desktop App

I want to create a desktop application using Java, but I'm new to desktop development and Swing. From web development I know I have to apply MVC to my project. Are there any tools or frameworks that simplify this task? Because I am a web developer I…
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In App Purchase for Desktop

Does anyone know of a good In-App purchase framework for desktop applications? I see a lot for mobile, but nothing really to support a generic windows application. Ideally, we want something which can handle all of the purchases, content management,…
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Integrating facebook login in a desktop client-server application

Situation I have a desktop client application 'C' and a server application 'S', both written in C++, residing on different machines. They currently communicate via TCP. Sensitive user-specific data is stored on 'S'. The current login flow is the…
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How to make a desktop application modular?

How do you make a Java desktop application modular? How should the modules be classified?
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Executable PyQt5 desktop apps

I am creating a desktop app with PyQt5 then making it executable with the pyinstaller, but I want to create an installation so that when I share just an exe file, people can first install dependencies, then run the app. Pyinstaller creates dist and…
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