Invoke function of neutralino.js client from remote page doesn't have any response

Question

We use neutralino.js to open a remote page by point the url from neutralino.config.json to our page and also set "enableNativeAPI": true

Our index.html of the remote page:

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
    <head>
        <title>Remote Neutralino Page</title>
        <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"/>
        <meta charset="utf-8"/>
        <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"/>
    </head>
    <body>
        <div id="root"></div>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="neutralino.js"></script>
        <script>
            Neutralino.init();
            Neutralino.window.setTitle('This is neutralinojs');
        </script>
    </body>
</html>

The neutralinojs object is available, but invoking its methods would not do anything.
Does anyone have the same issue? Please help!!! Appreciated.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 23 '22 at 22:34

This will not work because of the way neutralino works.

Neutralino starts a server which serves our HTML file, and neutralino uses the neutralino.js file included in our HTML file.

The neutralino.js provides a API to interact with the Neutralino Process which is running it but since the file you're trying to open doesn't have any neutralino process to handle it.

But there is a option you can try.

You can use Neutralino.window.create() function to create a new Neutralino Window and tell it to open your HTML file you want.

For example:

async function makeNewWindow() {
  const fileToOpen = "/resources/myOtherFile.html"
  const windowOptions = {
      icon: '/resources/icons/myOtherIcon.png',
      enableInspector: false,
      width: 500,
      height: 300,
      maximizable: false,
      exitProcessOnClose: true,
  }
  await Neutralino.window.create(fileToOpen, windowOptions);
}

Neutralino.init();
Neutralino.events.on("ready", makeNewWindow);

in this code as soon as you run your program and after everything is ready, makeNewWindow() function will be called, this function makes 2 new variables

1st variable is fileToOpen, this variable stores the path to the file to open. 2nd variable is windowOptions, this variable stores all the options which will be set for our new window.

and then finally we call Neutralino.window.create function, this function takes the 1st parameter to the file/url we want to open, and second parameter is a object containing the options for our window.

Read more about Neutralino.window.create

Invoke function of neutralino.js client from remote page doesn't have any response

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