Several facts on the windowing on OS level, so we are on track :
- webview.h creates a window out of convenience for other developers
- We can get control over that window from reference
- webview.h can also run without a window, wich is useless to all other devs except us
- We need control over windows from api namespace, like warp::api::windows::height(“Window2”, 360), so we create our own wrappers for them in Win**.h classes, for each OS;
- it is our goal, in every moment, to put as much logic as we can to warp::api methods rather than classes them selfes : this code is shared for all OS’s
Yes, we can get a reference to the working window from webview and use this one, we could also pass this reference to instantiate our Win** instance but it all seems like workarounds around something we should have in our base…a controllable window.
Window State table
| Name | Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Normal | 0 | The window is restored. |
| Minimized | 1 | The window is minimized. |
| Maximized | 2 | The window is maximized. |
In this example we can use existing ref wrapped in a GTK_WINDOW (I guess) so its doable but read on, i think the latter approach is even better.
From all the posibilities, and from what we need (controlable windows) it seems the best (to me, right now) to instantiate a win throough our Win**.h instance and run a webview.h inside it, BUT a webview.h without a win, like in this example.
creating a window separately (in our case we create it with api::windows::create) :
In the end we will probably wrap webview in our wrapper, called Web abreviated…why?
Well it will give us same API over all platforms, but a better one then Webview :
- cross platform async eval with return
- separation of windowing logic to Win** class and webview logic to Web component
- history[] on Web component level and forward, back, canFroward, canBack functions (yes believe it or not even the most advanced “webview” MS WebView2 doesnt have it)
- a bonus : serving from a folder, specially https (in this case server would be a dep of Web, not root project)
This file already exists in the git, actually.