{"id":1757,"date":"2020-02-13T20:01:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T20:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clarionsharp.com\/blog\/?p=1757"},"modified":"2025-12-24T21:22:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T21:22:55","slug":"anyscreen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clarionsharp.com\/blog\/anyscreen\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarion AnyScreen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

AnyScreen is our next generation product for deploying Clarion a application as a web\/mobile app. With the addition of AnyScreen your existing Clarion application immediately becomes available on Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iOS, and Android. In other words, it allows your Clarion application to run on any Workstation, Notebook, Tablet or Mobile device.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AnyScreen accomplishes this without you making any changes to your apps (except adding the global template to all the .APPs that make up your application). You also don’t need to know any JavaScript or CSS. It is worth mentioning that AnyScreen ships with several CSS “Themes”, such as; Clarion theme (mirrors the Windows UI), Material UI (Android look-alike), Bootstrap, and Bootstrap ‘outline’. All of these can be tweaked and customized. You also get the built-in support to create totally new CSS themes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a developer you don’t need to know JavaScript or CSS, and when you deploy your app using AnyScreen for web\/mobile, the end-users of your application won’t need any retraining, because although your application is now running in a Browser, your app UI is replicated exactly like they were running it on their desktop. AnyScreen brings you multi-window support within the Browser. So end-users can open multiple Browses, Forms, Reports, Processes, and any other Windows, and switch between them with a mouse click or a touch to the screen — exactly as they would on their desktop. Here is a screenshot showing what I’m describing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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an AnyScreen app running on Firefox with multiple active windows<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For Reports, AnyScreen automatically redirects output to a PDF, and opens the report in a new Browser tab where it can be viewed, saved or printed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Menus get transformed into a web\/mobile friendly React menu with some free extra features to expand or contract all, plus a search function, like these:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AnyScreen is the result of a collaboration between SoftVelocity and Ris – the makers of the thin@ product. Our goals for the project were to develop a system that allows Clarion apps to run as web\/mobile apps on any device that can run a modern web Browser, without any changes to the app needed, without requiring any knowledge of JavaScript or HTML5\/CSS, retaining all the functionality of the desktop app, and importantly – to run as fast as the desktop application<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The underlying technology in the AnyScreen Server has been in production, supporting hundreds of simultaneous users for several years. The new HTML5 client has been used in a production app, supporting more than 100 users for several months. This is proven tech that has been field-tested in a production application and has delivered great results in performance and stability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want to test your application with AnyScreen follow these steps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n