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How do destroy window by calling a Python function via the JS API?

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Specification

pywebview version: 3.3.5
platform / version: Windows 10

Description

import webview


html = """
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head lang="en">
</head>
<body>
<h1>JS API Example</h1>
<button onclick="close()">close</button>
<script>
  function close() {
      pywebview.api.close();
  }
</script>
</body>
</html>
"""


class Api:

  def close(self):
      window.destroy()


window = webview.create_window('test',
                             html=html,
                             easy_drag=False,
                             js_api=Api,
                             frameless=True)
webview.start()

Practicalities

YES I am willing to work on this issue myself.
NO I am prepared to support this issue financially.

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 3 years ago
Comments:5 (1 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

dtmilanocommented, Nov 28, 2020

Try _close() as close() is already defined

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head lang="en">
</head>
<body>
<h1>JS API Example</h1>
<button onclick="_close()">close</button>
<script>
    function _close() {
        pywebview.api.close();
    }
</script>
</body>
</html>

0reactions

r0x0rcommented, Dec 1, 2020

close is a global js function. this has nothing to do with pywebview.

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