BrowserView with go-astilectron
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Hi there,
I wanted to try and use go-astilectron
to create an application that loads another website and adds additional functionality for it - it's a website that allows downloading mods for a game.
Now, when loading the website directly in a NewWindow
, I can see some JavaScript errors which seem to stem from JS files being loaded out of order (it loads fine in a <webview>
). From what info I could gather, it looks like I should be using a <webview>
tag or a BrowserView. <webview>
is discouraged, so I tried looking up how to create a BrowserView
with this package, but was unable to find anything. Is there a way of creating a BrowserView
with go-astilectron or another workaround?
Cheers,
Mmm I find it weird that JS files would be loaded out of order using a Window
and not a BrowserView
... 🤔 Could you share JS errors here?
Unfortunately right now BrowserView
is not handled by this lib.
Thank you so much for your quick reply, really appreciate it!
Here's the code I used:
package main
import (
"log"
"os"
"github.com/asticode/go-astikit"
"github.com/asticode/go-astilectron"
)
func main() {
// Initialize astilectron
a, _ := astilectron.New(log.New(os.Stderr, "", 0), astilectron.Options{
AppName: "Flightsim.to desktop",
AppIconDefaultPath: "./icon.png",
})
defer a.Close()
// Start astilectron
a.Start()
var w, _ = a.NewWindow("https://flightsim.to", &astilectron.WindowOptions{
Center: astikit.BoolPtr(true),
})
w.Create()
w.OpenDevTools()
// Blocking pattern
a.Wait()
}
It throws a bunch of errors about jQuery not being available:
If I change the URL to google.com and navigate to the website, I can see that a jQuery asset gets loaded, but after the bundle.js file:
OK I get it. Check out this comment.
Do you have control on the website you're loading?
Thanks for the context!
Sadly I don't control the website - I'm currently using a webview and it works fine so far, but I'm not sure if that will work long term for me without a BrowserView judging from their notes on webview. Feel free to close the issue if BrowserView support won't be possible :)
Thanks a lot for your help again!