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How to open files from the user's local device in serverside Blazor using ElectronNET?
I created a serverside Blazor App and "electronized" it by following the instructions in the read me on the electronNET/electron.NET github page. One of the requirements for this app is to ...
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Prevent Certain DOM Elements from being Screen Recorded in Electron
I have a React web app that I am running inside an Electron app. I am doing this so that I can screen record like so:
window.electronAPI.startRecording();
However, some of the content on the screen ...
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What is the difference between a framework and a set of rules and instructions, basically a blueprint as the HTML Standard? [closed]
Supposedly framework too is a set of rules, but why it's that the framework Electron and the HTML Standard which we know is a set of all the instructions and rules installed in the browser to what ...
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Electron Notifications: Will using a Map to store Notification instances prevent GC issues, and can it cause memory leaks? [closed]
I’m building an Electron Timer app where multiple notifications may be active at the same time. Initially, each Notification instance was created inside a function, but the "click" and "...
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Firefox SSO login shows file picker dialog instead of opening browser on Ubuntu 22.04/24.04
I'm developing a Linux application that opens SSO authentication URLs in the default browser.
On Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04, when Firefox is the default browser, clicking the SSO link shows a file picker ...
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ElectronJS shell openPath cannot open file inside app.asar
Try to open a HTML file that resides inside the packaged app app.asar file. The file is there but Windows complains that cannot find the file. The pieces of the puzzle are:
inside the win-unpacked\...
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Electron IPC: File objects arrive as empty objects {} in main process
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I'm trying to send multiple files from the renderer process to the main process using Electron's IPC, but the file objects arrive empty.
Renderer Process:
if (files?.length > 1) {
window....
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Generating Interactive Documentation from Javascript Source Code
I’m working on an Electron project, and I can generate JSON for my code using JSDoc:
jsdoc -X > data.json
I want to use this JSON output to create a live, searchable documentation site similar to ...
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Electron: Alternative to navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition without API key? [closed]
In my Electron app, navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition() always fails. It seems that Electron (Chromium) no longer provides free geolocation and expects a third-party service with an API key (e....
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Transparent, unfocusable and clickable BrowserWindow in Electron
I am creating a button that is clickable but doesn't bring the app to the foreground. To achieve this I implemented the button as a separate BrowserWindow with focusable: false and its parent set to ...
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Tauri or Electron js
I’m starting a new project to build an ERP POS application using the MERN stack. I’m confused about whether I should use Electron.js or Tauri to turn it into a desktop/web app. Which option is better ...
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No app icon on Linux app with electron-builder, but shown when electron is used directly
i am programming an app with vite, svelte@4, electron and electron-builder. if i run electron ./start-electron.js the logo is shown, but after many days of trial and error i still don't get it in the ...
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Electron Builder: Built app starts UI but server + SQLite database do not run in packaged versio
I have an Electron application that uses:
React for the frontend
Node + Express backend inside /Server
A SQLite database stored inside the same /Server folder
During development, everything works ...
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Generating a virtual image for an Electron application
I’m trying to replace a the content of an image URL with the result of a custom protocol. The idea is to get the data from a zip file.
The img element looks something like this:
<img src="...
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How to properly log HTTPS (especially SSE) request responses in Electron webview without using deprecated APIs?
Here's a minimal GitHub Gist that runs on Electron Fiddle :
It's supposed to show GitHub Copilot (github.com/copilot) in a webview element as if it was in a normal browser :
Using the following code ...
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