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Does Unity 5.6 free/pro provide support to open external applications inside the Unity scene?
I have been looking through the related posts but could not find the solution for opening external applications inside the Unity scene. I know there are couple of resources for rendering the browser inside the Unity scene, but can we render any desktop application like excel etc. the similar way? Or is there a way to render the entire desktop window on a texture? I would really appreciate for the responses.
Theres no way to possibly do that within Unity, unless you use an external tool like maybe JSON and somehow snap info from the computer with the browser, upload it to a server, and read that info in - or make a WinForms application that does whatever you need it to do (since it sits on your desktop/computer, you have direct access to your computer when the app is in the background/Unity is in the foreground), so you can snap and send data to a text file or folder, and have Unity listen to new info in that file or folder. Thats really the best quick-n-dirty solution you can do for anything external, web browsers, rendering to a texture is a different story, since that snap idea may not work, unless you save everything as an image - but then for a browser, you cant really interact with the links, unless you essentially "rebuild" the functions of a web browser inside Unity with every snapshot or "rebuild" the HT$$anonymous$$L in Unity, which wont actually be read as HT$$anonymous$$L either, so youll have to build your own parser to handle that and have it formatted like a Google search...
