One of the great advantages of Backbase is that it easily integrates with third-party widgets. In this example, we will demonstrate how you can combine Backbase widgets with the Google Gears library.

This example uses the context of a simple alarm application to showcase several useful techniques for creating Backbase applications:

• Using precreated TDL components;
• Creating TDL components from scratch;
• Writing handlers for common events;
• Optional interfacing to the Google Gears API.

Live Example

Disclaimer: This example includes optional interfacing to Google Gears offline storage. In order for this interface to work, an external program from Google needs to be installed. Backbase does not support this software, nor does it recommend its installation, or take responsibility for any damage that may be caused by installing Google Gears software. You are strongly encouraged to read the license terms and other information related to Google Gears, which is provided on the Google site. Moreover, Google Gears software is in beta, and has been observed to cause problems with the Venkman debugger. We have also noticed that googleupdate.exe is silently installed and runs as a service under the local system account. After uninstalling Google Gears, googleupdate.exe service is not uninstalled, but continues to run.