Dear all,
Pharo-Webview works on Windows 10 64-bit and Linux 64-bit (tested on
Ubuntu 20.04). The needed webview.so dynamic library is available within
the repository at https://github.com/eftomi/Pharo-Webview. On Linux use
headless VM.
There's also a webview.dylib for MacOS if someone wants to try it (built
on Monterey), however I wasn't successful on this platform, despite the
fact that I tried TFWorker and TFMainThreadRunner approaches, too. I'm
also not keen on Cocoa.
The library itself lacks a better support for webview create-destroy
mechanisms although it could be upgraded. I achieved my needed
functionality and unfortunatelly don't have time to continue. Maybe I'll
continue in next months, but according to my experiences so far it would
be better to choose a slightly heavier but cleaner Photino
(https://www.tryphotino.io/) or something else. Or maybe to work on pure
Pharo approach :-)
One of the interesting challenges is a double nature of Pharo -
interactive and "headless" mode - meaning that the application runs
without Pharo GUI. It'd be nice if both approaches would be possible.
The library that I used builds on the headless idea, where the main GUI
loop is supposed to be taken over by the webview, which is the main
reason for "create-destroy" challenge if you use it interactively. This
multiplied by USER32.DLL, Gtk3, and Cocoa ...
Best wishes,
Tomaz
