Welcome to MGR Monkey!

Monkey is an HTML browser specially designed for embedded and real-time systems. It is available for the MGR Graphical Window System and the following real-time operating systems:

• LynxOS
• OS-9/68xxx
• pSOS (avail. Q1 98)
• VxWorks

Additionally, Monkey is available for all MGR host development platforms:

• Digital Unix
• Linux (e.g. from Red Hat or Caldera)
• SunOS / Solaris

Please look here for information on the Monkey BETA release !

Monkey supports HTML 2.0 plus ...

Monkey is an HTML 2.0 compliant browser and supports many HTML 3.2 and Netscape tags and attributes (please look here for the restrictions of the beta release ):

• Tables
• Background images
• Client-side image maps
• The DIV and the CENTER markup tag
• Left and right alignment of images
• Subscript, superscript, underline and strike-out
• Client pull
• and many more

No HTTP server required ...

No HTTP server is required to run monkey. Even CGI scripts can be executed by Monkey locally. It goes without saying that Monkey can fetch documents from a HTTP 1.0 server via TCP/IP as well.

Optimized memory management ...

Monkey has built in its own memory management system, carefully optimized for usage on systems with small core memory or without virtual memory support. Special attention has been turned to the avoidance of memory leaks - absolutely necessary on real-time kernels.

Many useful applications ...

You may wonder what you can do with an HTML browser in your embedded or real-time system. Here are some suggestions:

• A Powerful Help System
  Monkey can act as a "help server" - MGR applications can send an URL to Monkey that is displayed immediately. This feature is already supported by the current release of the MGR Application Library ( MGR/ALib).
   
• A Configuration and Administration GUI Tool
  It's so easy to create a simple graphical user interface using the HTML forms. CGI programs (e.g. shell or Python scripts, C programs) can analyze the user input, take some action and create new HTML documents on the fly. You can see an example here.
   
• (Sub-) System Inspection
  Monkey can load documents from local or remote programs via TCP/IP according to the HTTP 1.0 protocol specification. You can easily implement a simple HTTP server within your control or monitor application that sends dynamically created HTML documents to Monkey. It goes without saying that these documents may contain HTML forms - the user can control the application!

and More...

• Acceptance
  Many users know how to use an HTML browser - less training is required.
   
• Easy Creation of Documents and Forms
  You create HTML documents with the editor of your choice. Many modern text processing systems can generate HTML output - simply convert your documentation to HTML for the Monkey help server.
   
• Rapid Prototyping and Flexibility of HTML Based Graphical User Interfaces
  Graphical user interfaces for administration and monitor tools can be created and modified without great efforts. The tasks behind the interface can be realized as CGI programs using powerful scripting languages such as Sh, Python or Tcl.
   
• Portability
  HTML documents are portable. HTML 2.0 and 3.2 are widely accepted standards.
   
• Network Transparency
  Monkey displays HTML documents located or created anywhere in your local Intranet or the world-wide Internet.
  

Examples

Please follow this link for several examples showing the capabilities of Monkey.