CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

2.0

Released 28/04/2018

• New [All] Multi-window support
• New [All] Ability to call Python code from Javascript via window.pywebview.api
• New [All] Debug mode. Web inspector for Cocoa/GTK/QT and basic debug information for WinForms.
• New [All] File filter support in create_file_dialog
• New [All] target='_blank' links are now opened in an external browser
• New [All] Change window title via a set_title function #159
• New [All] load_css function
• New [All] Support for relative local URLs in create_window / load_html. Linked local resources are resolved as well. #186
• New [All] todos example app demonstrating js api and relative local URLs.
• New [All] Text select in the webview window is disabled by default. Added text_select argument to create_window function.
• New [QT] OpenBSD 6.x support #213. Thanks @hucste.
• Fix [All] base_uri parameter of load_html defaults to the directory of the entry script
• Fix [All] Consistent return types with evaluate_js across different platforms #175
• Fix [All] Various concurrency issues and deadlocks
• Fix [Winforms] Hide Message from webpage when using alert Javascript function #150
• Fix [Winforms] Support for high DPI #179
• Fix [QT] Support for QT 5.10 #171. Thanks @adbenitez
• Fix [QT] Deprecate QT4. Starting from this verison new features won't be tested on QT4 and support will be removed in the future.

1.8

Released 29/10/2017

• pywebview has the official logo
• @shivaprsdv is now an official maintainer of the project
• New [All] Add an ability to run Javascript code using evaluate_js function
• Fix [Cocoa] Implement missing webview components (file input dialog, alert()/confirm() JS functions)
• Fix [Winforms] Fix issue with non-responsive UI when a loading screen background color is used
• Fix [Winforms] Add support for Del and Ctrl+A keys in input elements.
• New [QT] QT5 is now prefererred over QT4
• Fix [QT] Fix return parameters of create_file_dialog to have the same format as on other platforms
• Fix [GTK] Better threading model. Thanks to @jorants #121

1.7

Released 08/06/2017

• New [All] Add a basic test suite and continuous integration. #88
• New [All] Add a background_color parameter to create_window, which specifies the default color of the webview window. Refer to examples/loading_indicator.py for example use. Thanks to @shivaprsdv. #90
• New [Cocoa] Disable backspace navigation. Thanks to @shivaprsdv. #102
• New [Cocoa] Implementation of window.print() and window.confirm method. Thanks to @shivaprsdv. #97
• Fix [Cocoa] Fix non-existing localization string in save file dialog
• New [Winforms] Disable all the shortcut keys of web navigation
• Fix [Winforms] Fix load_html failing sometimes due thread violation
• Fix [GTK] Implement fall-through to QT, when GTK is present, but not GTK.WebKit.

1.6

Released 29/03/2017

• New [All] Quit confirmation dialog #31
• New [All] webview.config can be used using the dot notation (ie. webview.config.use_win32 = True)
• New [Winforms] Disable context menu
• Fix [Winforms] Application icon is now visible in the application window when frozen with PyInstaller #91
• Fix [Mac] load_html() is invoked as soon as the webview is ready #93
• Fix [QT] get_current_url() not working due a typo. Thanks @maroc81. #85
• Fix [GTK] Better exception handling when GTK is not found #94
• Fix [GTK] destroy_window() #95

1.5

Released 09/02/2017

• New [All] toggle_fullscreen function #52
• New [All] get_current_url function #76
• New [Winforms] Javascript errors are now suppressed
• Fix [Winforms] Fixed resizable=False not being enforced #73

1.4

Released 14/01/2017

• New [All] pip installation now supports choosing what dependencies to install. See README for more information. Thanks @josePhoenix
• New [All] Localization support. Refer to examples/localization.py for an example use
• New [Mac] QT5 support
• Fix [Windows] File dialogs are now attached to the main window
• Fix [Windows] Pyinstaller crash issue with an icon in Windows Forms

1.3

Released 31/10/2016

• New [Cocoa] Added View -> Fullscreen standard menu item. Thanks to @bastula.
• New [Cocoa] Added About menu item #45. Thanks to @bastula.
• New [Windows] An application icon for Windows Forms
• Fix [Windows] Removed unnecessary pywin32 dependencies from Windows Forms #60
• Fix [Linux] Thread violation in load_url in GTK implementation #59

1.2.2

Released 10/10/2016

• Fix [All] Python 2 compatibility issue in Flask Example (#52). Thanks to @bastula.
• Fix [Windows] Python 3 compatibility issue in Windows Forms implementation (#51)
• Fix [Linux] Resizing width/height: 100% problem on GTK (#53). Thanks to @klausweiss.

1.2.1

Released 29/09/2016

• Fix [Linux] GTK window failing to open. Thanks to @lchish. #50

1.2

Released 27/09/2016

• New [All] Introduced load_html function that allows dynamic loading of HTML code, instead of a URL. Implemented for all platforms except Win32 (use Windows Forms). Thanks to @ysobolev #39
• New [All] Added an example of a Flask-based application skeleton. The example can be found in examples/flask_app
• New [Windows] Windows Forms based implementation of webview window. Requires pythonnet.
• New [Windows] Introduced config["USE_WIN32"] variable that lets you choose between Win32 and Windows Forms. Default to True (Windows Forms will be made as default in the future)
• Fix [Windows/Linux] Got rid of installation dependencies on Windows and Linux. The dependencies now have to be installed by hand and the choice of dependencies is left to user
• Fix [Linux] Compatibility with Qt 5.5. Thanks to @danidee10. #48

1.1

Released 08/06/2016

• New [OSX] Add a default application menu #35. Thanks @cuibonobo
• New [Linux] GTK is made as default and pypi dependency added. USE_GTK environment variable is also deprecated. To use QT, set webview.config["USE_QT"] = True
• Fix [Windows] Open folder of create_file_dialog now returns Unicode, instead of byte encoding.

1.0.2

Released 19/05/2016

• Fix [Windows] Fix a dead-lock that sometimes occurs on a window creation, when used with a HTTP server running in a separate thread.

1.0.1

Released 17/05/2016

• Fix [Windows] PyInstaller: Icon not found #29

1.0

Released 12/02/2016

• New [All] Add an ability to programmatically destroy a webview window
• Fix [Windows] Fullscreen mode
• Fix [Windows] Change setup.py to use pypiwin32 #22
• Fix [Windows] Relative import of win32_gen fixed on Python 3 #20. Thanks to @yoavram for the contribution
• Fix [Windows] FileNotFound exception on Windows 2003. Thanks to @jicho for the contribution
• Fix [OSX] Non-SSL URLs are allowed by default on El Capitan. Thanks to @cr0hn for the contribution

0.9

Released 27/11/2015

• New [All] Right click context menu is disabled #12
• New [All] Window minimum size constraints #13
• New [All] Save file dialog
• New [All] Added directory and save_filename parameters to create_file_dialog
• New [All] An option to set a default directory in a file dialog
• New [GTK] Introduced USE_GTK environment variable. When set, GTK is preferred over QT.
• Fix [Windows] Webview scrollbar sizing with a non-resizable window
• Fix [Windows] Add support for application icon #9
• Fix [Windows] Disable logging spam for comtypes

0.8.4

• Fix [Windows] Invisible scrollbars
• Fix [Windows] Fullscreen mode

0.8.3

• Fixed #10 Underlying browser does not resize with window under windows

0.8.2

Released on 08/10/2015

• Fixed Pressing close window button terminates the whole program on OSX

0.8

Released on 06/10/2015

• New Support for native open file / open folder dialogs
• Fixed #6 FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION not in winreg.HKEY_CURRENT_USER. Thanks to @frip for the fix.

0.7

Released on 08/04/2015

• Fixed Python 3 compatibility in Win32 module (thanks @Firnagzen) #3
• Fixed Floating values for window dimensions causing issues on Windows XP (thanks @Firnagzen) #4
• Fixed Correct IE version registry key on Windows XP (thanks @Firnagzen) #5

0.6

Released on 11/02/2015

• Fixed A problem preventing from creating a window on Windows

0.5

Released on 30/11/2014

• New Windows support
• New GTK3 support
• New pip installation
• New Fullscreen mode

0.1

Released on 20/11/2014

• First release
• Linux and OSX support