webDemoExe

wrap your web demo into a windows exe format, just like a native demo.

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about

• 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)

how

• download the zip file from the releases section

• put your static html/js files into the demo subfolder

• edit webdemoexe.xml and change the title

• rename webdemoexe.exe to your demo name

• 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"

technical

• 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"...

ideas

• 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

misc

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.