Feature request: webview

[tom-hines]

Hi. Great project. Is there any chance you could use webview instead of or in addition to Chrome?

https://github.com/oskca/webview

Thanks.

[Niminem]

@tom-hines Yes, ability to use webview rather than Chrome will be an option. To be honest, it's looking to be around July based on my current workload. I'll leave this open and ping you when it's been added in :)

[Niminem]

@tom-hines I have a working version of using webview with Neel. I'll be releasing this as v0.4.0 over the next week or so after some testing on all 3 OSs

[tom-hines]

Great! Can't wait to try it. Thank you.

[EriKWDev]

Any update? :)

[tom-hines]

Just tried it on my Linux Mint 19.3 machine. I need to install libgtk-3-dev and libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev. I have a Dockerfile for that somewhere. Stay tuned...

[Niminem]

@EriKWDev @tom-hines

Excuse the delay guys I've been extremely busy with work. You can try the webview version w/ the devel2 branch

There's a few changes for how it works in this branch. Check out the forum post for details:
Nim Forum Post

I'm more than likely going to redo this entire aspect and use the most recent version of the Webview library you see mentioned. The unfortunate part is that you're going to be forced to compile to C++. It takes away from a goal I've had for Neel but at this point, it may be necessary to get what we want.

At the end of the day I want us to be able to make commercial applications and using a Chrome window in App mode isn't going to cut it.

[tom-hines]

OK, I set up my Dockerfile to build this. I got the same error others got about missing "webview.h".

Here's my output:
https://pastebin.com/Y9GYtWTF

And FYI, here's my Dockerfile:
https://pastebin.com/9nEy6pWG

[Niminem]

@tom-hines @EriKWDev

Now that we're able to embed static assets into the binary and package our apps via Neel 0.4.0 ( still working on Linux for packaging :( ),
I'm dedicating the next release to include a stable webview option. I had been doing testing with the Webview libraries with some success, will let you guys know when the devel-2 branch is updated and ready for testing