Unable to debug with CEF on Windows

Specification

• pywebview version: 3.3.5
• platform / version: Windows + CEF

Description

debug=True doesn’t propagate properly from start() While trying to get the debugger working in CEF, I noticed that as soon as create_window calls CEF.init(window) the value of _debug flips from True to False for some reason. They seem to be in the same thread, so I can only gather that it has something to do with the nature of declaring global _debug and changing it in start() doesn’t change it where it’s imported, sometimes. It seems fine in winforms.py but not in cef.py. Maybe because cef is conditionally imported? Dropping a breakpoint at line 72 https://github.com/r0x0r/pywebview/blob/952b3115c1b3b884e6a4d213a0a031bdea9e6609/webview/platforms/winforms.py#L71-L73 shows me that after this import, CEF._debug == False instead of True.

I actually came to post that I didn’t understand why, but I put a breakpoint on the line in cef.py where _debug is imported, and I realized that I was importing cef.py long before _debug is set to true in order to get to cef.settings . I don’t know why it became disjointed and lost the fact that the reference changed, but it feels like maybe this should be a is_debug() function in __init__.py instead of relying on it being a global variable.

Unfortunately there’s no workaround since you can’t pass the settings. I can’t change the settings after start() is called, and I can’t import it before either. The best I can do is force setting webview._debug=True and then importing cef.settings after that.

Practicalities

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