brackets-shell is a CEF3-based application shell for the Brackets editor
Questions tagged [brackets-shell]
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What are the functional differences between NW.js, Brackets-Shell and Electron?
Now that TideSDK is effectively dead, I've been looking into alternative 'wrappers' to run HTML/CSS/JS applications as stand-alone desktop applications. The three viable options I have run across so far, are NW.js (formerly node-webkit),…

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How do I download a file in a brackets-shell app?
I am using Brackets-shell to build a desktop packaged app for Windows and OSX. The application that runs on Brackets shell is able to open dynamically generated Excel sheets and PDF files from a server. In a normal browser, the request to the file…

Rob Boerman
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brackets-shell MsiTran.exe error
Whe I build my installer I get this error with brackets-win-install-build.xml on line 143 - exec returned 1.
brackets-win-install-build.xml
26 :
{...}
143 :

L105
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Sparkle Freezes on "Installing update..."
I'm trying to implement Sparkle in a brackets-shell application. I believe I have everything set up properly, but it seems to fail.
It will run through the update, find the update, get it ready and then when I hit the "Install and Relaunch" button,…

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How Using UTF ( Persian Language ) in Bracket?
When i Using The Persian (UTF) in Bracket Show Me Like This .
This My Text in Bracket :
سلام این ایت منه
This Show Me in google Chrome سلام این ایت منه
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Brackets-Shell install package dependencies and Grunt ERROR
I am trying to setup Brackets-Shell on Windows 7. I run npm install -g grunt-cli and it works with no errors, but then I run npm install and it gives me the following error message:
0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [ 'C:\\Program…

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Bracket-Shell Custom Native (C++) Function not being called
I'm trying to create a custom C++ function which I can call from JavaScript. The function is a simple one to just resize the window.
I have the following bits in the following places:
In appshell_extensions_platform.h:
#if defined(OS_WIN)
void…

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brackets-shell Enable Fullscreen
How do I enable fullscreen for brackets-shell (which implements CEF)?
I tried adding:
$('.somediv').get(0).webkitRequestFullScreen();
But it doesn't seem to do anything.
I just compile brackets-shell exactly as it comes. I can't tell definitively…

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Open window with predefined size
Does anyone know how to open new with specific size?
brackets object does not contain any function to do that - there's only 2 brackets.app and brackets.fs object. Also if you try to open new window with window.open("http://stackoverflow.com","some…

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Error when compiling Brackets Shell standalone app
I have a web app that I'm trying to package up into a standalone app using Brackets-Shell. I followed the instructions here to setup Brackets and Brackets-Shell on my Mac OSX…

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Changing Brackets Shell Name results in WebSocket connection Error
I am trying to build an app using the Brackets shell. More specifically I am trying to build a custom code editor for a project so instead of starting from scratch I am modifying Brackets.
So far I have been able to work through all issues until I…

Jon Doe
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How can I input data to Brackets node child process repeatly?
My Brackets extension wants to send data to its node process repeatly. like:
#include
int main(){
int a,b;
while(scanf("%d %d", &a, &b)!=EOF)
printf("%d\n",a+b);
return 0;
}
I know in pure node I can just write:
var exec =…

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unable to launch custom brackets.exe
I have created a desktop app using brackets-shell version sprint-38. I have done the following changes.
config.h -changed APP_NAME from 'Brackets' to 'MyBrackets'.
appshell_config.gypi - changed appname from 'Brackets' to 'MyBrackets'.
Gruntfile -…

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WebRTC on cef3 with brackets-shell for windows application (HTML5)
I need to use the navigator.getUserMedia() function to use the webcam to take pictures on a windows application made with HTML5, and compiled on brackets-shell w/ cef3 (version 3.2171.1902).
Is this possible, or cef3 does not support webrtc at…

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Build Error with Brackets-shell
I am trying to test out building my app and when I run
grunt full-build
I get this error
Running "build-mac" task
>> ** BUILD FAILED **
>>
>>
>> The following build commands failed:
>> PhaseScriptExecution Postbuild\ \"Strip\ If\ Needed\"…

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