WKWebView not interactive by keyboard

Question

I am new to swift and apple development in general (coming from JS world). I am trying to do a simple desktop app by wrapping WKWebView. Part where ViewController creates a webView works ok. At least it looks so: It loads a webpage :)

But when I click into any input field I am not able to write anything. There's even no cursor visible in the field.

Basically only clicking by mouse/touchpad works. But mouse cursor is not changing when hovering over elements (e.g. buttons and also the textfields). It looks to me there is some kind of mask/layer above the webpage. Clicking is propagated to page itself but not the hovers and key strokes

Is there any special project settings/rights enabling keyboard in the app? How can I make the page inputs editable?

More details:

• Clicking the textfield works (it changes e.g. border color based on focus selector)
• clicking <a> links in the webview works
• right-mouse clicks seems to work (it shows copy/paste options etc)
• pasting by right-mouse click into the field works

code:

import Cocoa
import SafariServices.SFSafariApplication
import WebKit

class ViewController: NSViewController, WKNavigationDelegate {

     @IBOutlet var ww: WKWebView!

     override func viewDidLoad() {
         super.viewDidLoad()

         ww.navigationDelegate = self
         ww.load(URLRequest(url: URL(string: "https://www.google.com")!))
         view = ww
    }
}

My storyboard:

• Ww is WebKit View
• Ww covers all the View area (drag & dropped by mouse)

THANKS for any answer or hint!

Answer 1

Your original code works for me. You need to disable Sandbox Capabilities:

With this disabled I was able to both load and interact with the webview.