I'm building a desktop application using Python, JS, HTML and CSS. I'm connecting python using eel. When I launch my desktop application through the python terminal, it works perfectly.
However, when I launch the app through electron via command line:
$npm start
The desktop application loads up, but it doesn't execute on any of the python backend, explained well by this error in the inspector:
Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND eel.js:1
I'm not sure what is causing it, I have spent the last 8 hours testing things but to no avail.
I know you may need more information but I've been checking everything, from file structure i.e. the __.py outside web folder, to inserting <script type="text/javascript" src="/eel.js"></script>, so please comment below what specifically you require as including every possible cause would be a very huge question. I will include whatever is relevant in edits in this question alongside the final answer for anyone with similar issues in the future.
No need to run from npm. eel.js is just virtual javascript, dont bother with it.
Put this in your your_main.py file
import eel.browsers
asign your electron browser
eel.browsers.set_path('electron', 'node_modules/electron/dist/electron')
and then use it
eel.start('main.html', mode='electron')
to run, call from python:
python your_main.py
I am using WebStorm on Windows to work on node.js projects.
Recently, when I open one of my projects that are located on the OneDrive directory I got the 'Error: Please specify path to JavaScript file correctly' when I run a .JS file. However if I move the same project folder to an other directory (Desktop for example) it works correctly.
PS: Nodemon keeps restarting forever when running on the onedrive project.
How can I fix it?
Please see https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEABKL-7619#comment=27-2504574 for possible workaround.
And, if possible, use some VCS for sharing instead of OneDrive, see https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/articles/206544839.
I started a simple project with an HTML and a Java Script file. I ran the html file and everything was fine. I continued with the workspace on another machine and found that I could not see any changes I made to the html or js files when I refresh the browser panel in c9 IDE. It seems to keep serving a previous (cached?) version of the files. Restarting the run configuration (apache) did not make any difference.
How can I get the c9 IDE to run the latest files again?
Are you using Chrome? I had the same issue, I looked up and it was Chrome's fault. Started using the extension Cache Killer and that solved my problem.
Does anyone know how to install GameClosure on Windows? According to the docs, on the installation guide, only osx is supported, although they have some success running on Linux and Windows. Unfortunately they don't expand on how to do this and a Google turns up only one promising looking page which returns a 404 (there is a cached version but it only seems to be a half article).
I have successfully installed the GC DevKit on Windows, there are a few additional steps like creating symbolic links BEFORE trying to install the GC DevKit.
Follow these steps carefully and you shouldn't have a problem getting it up and running. Read through them and try to understand what is required first.
Download the list of required items (Windows builds for Git, Node and Java) from the install guide.
Open up Git Bash (find it on the start menu under Git)
Continue with the install guide by cloning the repo (git clone https://github.com/gameclosure/devkit).
The files would have been installed to %USERPROFILE% if you did not change the directory while in Git Bash.
Move all the files in devkit\SDK somewhere else but make sure they are gone from that directory.
Open a normal command-prompt (cmd.exe).
Create symbolic links for everything that WAS under the devkit\SDK directory using mklink (available in Vista and above) from the command-prompt (not the Git Bash console). The files you moved in step 5 will contain the path as text that the link should be pointed to EG: > mklink /D "%USERPROFILE%\devkit\sdk\squill" "..\lib\squill\"
JSIO is special and actually needs to exist in a sub-directory at the time of writing. Create the directory devkit\SDK\jsio and then create a symbolic link INSIDE that going back one more relative path. EG: > mklink /D "%USERPROFILE%\devkit\sdk\jsio\jsio" "..\..\lib\js.io\packages\"
Go back you your Git Bash console and now continue with the installation for GC DevKit by switching to the devkit directory running the ./install.sh script as described.
Run basil by executing node src/basil [command]
If all the correct pre-requisites were in place everything should go smoothly. If basil throws errors it's more than likely the symbolic links, just check that everything is pointing to the right place and run ./install.sh to try again.
Good luck!!
There is now a full guide to installing Game Closure SDK on Windows here (I have also posted the contents in pastebin here in case the previous link disappears)
It's quite a process to get everything installed and configured, and looks like you can only develop for Android using the windows version of the SDK, but I may be mistaken
I wasn't able to get it installed on windows, but it's easy enough to install on linux, so I ended up using virtualbox and a linux vm. Cygwin could be another option but I didn't try it so unfortunately can't say for definite whether or not it would work
I've run into a weird issue that has had me scratching my head for the past hour.
I'm working on an iPad app using Xcode 4 and PhoneGap. It's using jQuery. I've put all my JS into a scripts.js file.
Things are working well.
I spend about an hour doing a lot of CSS tweaking. I'd update the CSS file, stop the app, rebuild, and push to the iPad simulator or my iPad. That's been working fine. Every update to the CSS file is reflected on the new build.
I then needed to update the JS file. I couldn't get things to work and then I finally realized none of my JS changes were actually be put into the build. I finally blanked out my JS file completely, rebuilt, and it's still not updating.
The file I'm updated is being updated in the finder in the project folder (I can right-click 'view in finder' and that file is, indeed, updated).
So I'm stumped. Is the xcode compiler caching the JS file somehow instead of grabbing the updated file? Is there a way to force it to grab the updated JS?
I found it necessary to hold the Option button when clicking the menu command which turns the command from "Clean" to "Clean Build Folder..." and this caused my assets to be refreshed.
Well, after some more googling, this seems to be a common problem. Xcode seems to cache files even after you've edited them.
One option appears to be to run the 'clean' command before a new build. I tried that, no luck.
Other solutions appear to involve rebuilding the .plist file each time. I don't fully understand that (yet) in terms of how to do that automatically, but did find this workaround:
Open your .plist file
change something (in my case, I rename one of the app icon files each time)
save and build
Doing that magically forces xcode to FINALLY grab all the updated files and do a proper build.
I can't explain why Xcode seems perfectly happy grabbing my updated .css file each and every time but won't update the .html or or .js files without first doing this .plist file edit.
Seems as if Apple still has a few bugs to work out. I guess we'll have to wait patiently for the next 4gig .x relase of it. ;)
Just add a new "Run Script" build phase to your target in XCode and paste this :
touch -cm ${SRCROOT}/www
I do not have mac right now, but few things to try:
Try to look at Your project build (or prebuild or something) action where www folder is supposed to be copied.
Try to change index.html and see if it works.
Try to copy paste all Your javascript code to index.html script tag
Try to validate Your javascript (For example: Google Closure Compiler) and see if it has no problems
None of these worked for me :(
The only way I can get the thing to update its html and js is by running a "corodova run ios" at the command line.
Find the file called copy-www-build-step.sh.
Mine was in [project_folder]/platforms/ios/cordova/lib/copy-www-build-step.sh
In that file, find the lines beginning rsync -a "...
Add -c to the rsync lines, so they ready rsync -a -c "...
copy-www-build-step.sh is the script that copies the files over from www/ to where they go inside the app file. rsync is the unix file copying command they use. Without that -c, rsync just compares the file size on each file and folder and copies them over if the size has changed, and a couple of spaces or quotes don't count as enough of a change. With the -c, it checksums them and compares the checksums, which will catch even the smallest changes.
I think this will work best, because it's not a workaround, it actually fixes the cause of the problem.
I just had this issue, and the build phase command posted here (which is actually now used by the default Phonegap project) did not work for me, since I am editing my files on a Parallels Windows VM, in Visual Studio.
What I did, was use this instead, in the Build Phase of my project:
find "${PROJECT_DIR}/www/." -exec touch -cm {} \;
Thats basically a recursive touch. I then set up Visual Studio to always reload the file, if it has been saved. Hope this helps.
I'm not sure which did it, but I did the following:
Changed an icon value in my MyProject-Info.plist
Quit the simulator
Product -> (hold option) -> Clean Build Folder
Run
I had this same issue with the iOS Simulator, I tried most of the suggestions above with no success, it would not pick up my changes.
Later another possible solution occurred to me, which did work:
Delete the app from the simulator. (ie. Click and hold on the icon, then hit the X when it starts to shake, then Hardware Home)
Then re-run from xCode.
(NB: "cordova build ios" was also required)
Nothing solution of above work
finally i saw there are two index.html file and .js file in the project created using Command line tool of Cordova
So make changes as below shown under Staging folder