wrap your web demo into a windows exe format, just like a native demo.
- it does not use electron, size is ~0.5mb
- it will use edge to display your demo. edge is a chromium based browser, which is basically chrome
- shows a little start dialog (only fullscreen option right now, more in the future hopefully)
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download the zip file from the releases section
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put your static html/js files into the demo subfolder
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edit webdemoexe.xml and change the title
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rename webdemoexe.exe to your demo name
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add
<autostart/>into the config to not show the dialog at all and start directly, don't do this if you want to play audio without having another user interaction! -
if the url contains "webdemoexe_exit" it will exit, e.g. use window.location.hash="webdemoexe_exit"
- exe is not signed, still have to click "run anyway", like with most demos
- webdemoexe uses webview2 and creates a virtual host from the demo subfolder to run your demo
- escape to close is handled by webdemoexe
- no gesture is needed to auto play audio, if you normally display a play button, make sure it only shows when audiocontext stats is not "running"...
- currently has no resolution selection, not sure how this is possible with wpf etc.
- in the future the dialog could show link to website/online version and maybe a little teaser image...
- there should be way to exit the app from js / in electron we always used
window.close()not possible with webview2 afaik
thanks to kb for helping with initial setup!
any help is appreciated. i am not a windows developer, i hope everything here is not too wrong.