Hi Mick
I'm having trouble picturing how that would work with AutoCAD. Would the windows still be able to implement modeless windows?
It basically is a modeless window, think of it as being able to use your web browser as the UI. That is essentially what it is, I actually had something working in a browser but due to its secure/sandboxed nature it was way too restrictive. Electron/Tauri et al are basically a host for a web browser view but still allow interaction with the OS etc for file handling and other tasks.
It's like driving AutoCAD from Excel say, they are 2 different app's that communicate via sockets.
The down side is it works the best with multiple monitors, the up side is you can build complete web applications that host databases on back end servers and talk with AutoCAD, build forms and do what ever you like, and with web sockets you could even have 'multi player'
I will be working on it over the next week or so as I need it for a project, I'll put something up soon. It won't be for everyone as they have different needs, it's a bit of overkill if you want to pop up a 2 field form with an OK button but if you have a lot of forms and config files and need to interact with databases and CAD it's a very viable option.