Webview plug-in

[SuperDan630]

we can use js to replace when some widget no support , first we need webview!!

[joeblew99]

There are 2 ways.

Zserge lib
Lorca lib.

Just Google for it on GitHub.

They have to open in a seperate window though.
It might be possible to get zserge working inline but I don't know

[pchampio]

In the same way a texture api is required to implement camera/video plug-in.
There is a special Api to implement in the go-flutter source code to implement webview plug-in.

The first step towards supporting webview plug-in, is to adds support for FlutterCompositor.
The you'll need to find a way to get pixel from the browser and send it to the engine.

Here is my honest opinion, go-flutter-desktop is a project supported by passionate people, and such plug-in demands a lot of initial work + maintenence.
I really don't think we should add support for such feature we aren't Google.

[winwisely99]

@pchampio thanks for the feedback. I was always wondering where compositing happens in Flutter !

[winwisely99]

Here is the golang lib that can open a Webview on all desktops.
https://github.com/zserge/webview/tree/webview-x

The webview-x branch is a refactor designed to also use the Edge Webview, rather than the old Windows browser engine.

Rather than the complex compositing, i was thinking of at least trying to have it open in a separate window to at least have something working.

@pchampio Any idea how we can open a window without opening a new app ? SO that we dont get a new Icon in the app bar, etc

[pchampio]

@pchampio Any idea how we can open a window without opening a new app ? SO that we dont get a new Icon in the app bar, etc

No, I don't know much, but I strongly recommend https://github.com/go-flutter-desktop/plugins/tree/master/url_launcher for a similar behavior.

[winwisely99]

@pchampio thanks will try out the Url Launcher