Here’s a picture of my web browser component. It’s supposed to be showing google. The red is just to demonstrate I’ve not done anything stupid with the parent component. So what am I doing wrong this morning…?
Okay - so if I add it directly to a top level window it displays, e.g.
class SaltHelpPanel : public Component
{
public:
SaltHelpPanel()
{
setOpaque(true);
Component::setName("HELP BROWSER");
auto window = new ResizableWindow("HELP", true);
window->setVisible(true);
auto windowBrowser = new Browser();
windowBrowser->setSize(400, 400);
window->setContentOwned(windowBrowser, true);
//addAndMakeVisible(browser);
}
I can’t seem to re-produce your problem. See this code here:
/*
==============================================================================
This file was auto-generated!
It contains the basic startup code for a Juce application.
==============================================================================
*/
#include "../JuceLibraryCode/JuceHeader.h"
//==============================================================================
class BrowserTestApplication : public JUCEApplication
{
public:
//==============================================================================
BrowserTestApplication() {}
const String getApplicationName() override { return ProjectInfo::projectName; }
const String getApplicationVersion() override { return ProjectInfo::versionString; }
bool moreThanOneInstanceAllowed() override { return true; }
//==============================================================================
void initialise (const String&) override
{
// This method is where you should put your application's initialisation code..
mainWindow = new MainWindow (getApplicationName());
}
void shutdown() override
{
// Add your application's shutdown code here..
mainWindow = nullptr; // (deletes our window)
}
//==============================================================================
void systemRequestedQuit() override
{
// This is called when the app is being asked to quit: you can ignore this
// request and let the app carry on running, or call quit() to allow the app to close.
quit();
}
void anotherInstanceStarted (const String&) override
{
// When another instance of the app is launched while this one is running,
// this method is invoked, and the commandLine parameter tells you what
// the other instance's command-line arguments were.
}
//==============================================================================
/*
This class implements the desktop window that contains an instance of
our MainContentComponent class.
*/
class MainWindow : public DocumentWindow
{
private:
class BrowserComponent : public Component
{
public:
BrowserComponent()
{
setOpaque (true);
addAndMakeVisible (wb);
setSize (800, 600);
wb.goToURL ("http://opensource.perlig.de/tdi/examples/html5form.html");
}
void paint (Graphics& g) override
{
g.fillAll (Colours::white);
}
void resized() override
{
wb.setBounds (getLocalBounds());
}
private:
WebBrowserComponent wb;
};
public:
MainWindow (String name) : DocumentWindow (name,
Desktop::getInstance().getDefaultLookAndFeel()
.findColour (ResizableWindow::backgroundColourId),
DocumentWindow::allButtons)
{
setUsingNativeTitleBar (true);
setContentOwned (new BrowserComponent(), true);
centreWithSize (getWidth(), getHeight());
setVisible (true);
}
void closeButtonPressed() override
{
// This is called when the user tries to close this window. Here, we'll just
// ask the app to quit when this happens, but you can change this to do
// whatever you need.
JUCEApplication::getInstance()->systemRequestedQuit();
}
/* Note: Be careful if you override any DocumentWindow methods - the base
class uses a lot of them, so by overriding you might break its functionality.
It's best to do all your work in your content component instead, but if
you really have to override any DocumentWindow methods, make sure your
subclass also calls the superclass's method.
*/
private:
JUCE_DECLARE_NON_COPYABLE_WITH_LEAK_DETECTOR (MainWindow)
};
private:
ScopedPointer<MainWindow> mainWindow;
};
//==============================================================================
// This macro generates the main() routine that launches the app.
START_JUCE_APPLICATION (BrowserTestApplication)
My main discovery about embedding web-browsers is: Don’t Do It.
We tried the JUCE/OS standard stuff and then for a while had embedded chromium. All of which was horrific one way of the other. Notably the OS embedded web browser versions seemed to be out of date, vary from OS version to OS version and all the features like auto-complete don’t work. Either we render stuff natively with JUCE or launch the users preferred browser these days.
That’s a pity. I would really like to have access to a webview in my app. Just now I modified the AudioPluginHost so that it shows a web browser component instead of the plugin UI, and lo and behold, it’s also blank.
[edit] My understand is that it should work in the AudioPluginHost, because I’m using setContent(), but anyway, even if that had worked, it’s not going to be a runner for what I want to do, which is display it alongside other widgets.
