Re: SWV: A simple HTML/JS desktop GUI engine for PB
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2020 11:45 pm
Demo Not Working on Win 10
I've downloaded the Demo 2 and and tried it under Win10: the exe launches, hangs for a short while and then silently crashes.
Tried recompiling form source using PB 5.72 32-bit: same result. Probably the issue is with the DLL itself.
Issues with DLLs that suddenly stop working under Win10 (for whatever mysterious reasons) are my main concern when considering purchasing third party libraries for PB that are shipped as precompiled binaries — I've seen demos of other commercial libraries for PB that were no longer working after less than a year from their release. I'm not sure what's making these binaries break under Win10 (I mean, I have some software from the Win 95 era that still runs under Win10, so there must be something intrinsically broken if they break so soon).
Offering the source code for similar commercial products seems the only viable approach to me.
Also, having to include a DLL with an application which could otherwise be shipped as a standalone binary seems a high price to pay if all that one is getting is Trident engine.
I've also noticed that the https://www.radsix.com website is not showing any home page. Does this mean the SWV project is dead?
WebView2 vs Sciter
It would be nice if the new WebView2 (Edge Chromium) browser component could be made accessible to PureBasic applications — in this case, having to rely on a DLL would be a fair price to pay since you'd be getting all the Chrome features without the bloat (since it's now a native Win 10 component).
Having peaked at the WebView2 documentation it seems that a wrapper is most likely needed — if it's doable at all — because there are quite a lot of requirements, including a dedicate SDK for the component.
If the WebView2 component can't be interfaced to PB apps, I think that Sciter would be the best option, but (as already discussed elsewhere in this forum) a wrapper need to be created.
I've downloaded the Demo 2 and and tried it under Win10: the exe launches, hangs for a short while and then silently crashes.
Tried recompiling form source using PB 5.72 32-bit: same result. Probably the issue is with the DLL itself.
Issues with DLLs that suddenly stop working under Win10 (for whatever mysterious reasons) are my main concern when considering purchasing third party libraries for PB that are shipped as precompiled binaries — I've seen demos of other commercial libraries for PB that were no longer working after less than a year from their release. I'm not sure what's making these binaries break under Win10 (I mean, I have some software from the Win 95 era that still runs under Win10, so there must be something intrinsically broken if they break so soon).
Offering the source code for similar commercial products seems the only viable approach to me.
Also, having to include a DLL with an application which could otherwise be shipped as a standalone binary seems a high price to pay if all that one is getting is Trident engine.
I've also noticed that the https://www.radsix.com website is not showing any home page. Does this mean the SWV project is dead?
WebView2 vs Sciter
It would be nice if the new WebView2 (Edge Chromium) browser component could be made accessible to PureBasic applications — in this case, having to rely on a DLL would be a fair price to pay since you'd be getting all the Chrome features without the bloat (since it's now a native Win 10 component).
Having peaked at the WebView2 documentation it seems that a wrapper is most likely needed — if it's doable at all — because there are quite a lot of requirements, including a dedicate SDK for the component.
If the WebView2 component can't be interfaced to PB apps, I think that Sciter would be the best option, but (as already discussed elsewhere in this forum) a wrapper need to be created.