Tabulum

The spiritual successor to KioskWatch. Serves as the (Cr Edge-based) client for web kiosks and web-based tracking boards.

In the Before Times™ (as I like to call them), we used KioskWatch, which handled web-based kiosks and tracking boards by automating Internet Explorer. However, since IE has been end-of-lifed we had to have a new solution.

After experimenting endlessly with controlling Chrome or Edge with the DevTools protocol, automation with Selenium 3 and 4, and interacting with debug configurations of the browser I ended up writing an application that embeds Microsoft Edge WebView2 and controls that as a single full-screen browser that can be kept on-task and even allow for some automation.

Tabulum was written with Lazarus 2.2.2 and compiled with Free Pascal 3.2.2. The WebView2 components for Lazarus are an open source package available for Delphi and Lazarus.

First, note that Tabulum is compiled for 64-bit Windows only and only functions on Windows 10 or newer.

Tabulum is pretty straightforward. To test that Tabulum is working properly, configure it to load your favorite internal site and make sure it's an allowed site as per the configuration. If it loads when you start Tabulum, everything must be good!

Installation of the app requires that MS Edge WebView2 components are installed from Microsoft.

Manual installation is not really necessary; there's a handy package that installs the files.

This is the first public release of Tabulum.