pywebview

# Changelog

# 5.3.2

Released 22/10/2024

# 🐞 Bug fixes

  • Fix Pyinstaller compatibility for non-Windows platforms #1508
  • Error occurs when alert() is called with non-string arguments #1506

# 5.3.1

Released 21/10/2024

# 🐞 Bug fixes

  • Fix Pyinstaller compatibility

# 5.3

Released 16/10/2024

# ⚡ Features

  • All Native window object for each platform is now exposed window.native. You can use it for example for applying custom appearance to a window. Additionally WebView is exposed via window.native.webview
  • All New window.events.before_show event.
  • All New DomEventHandler debounce parameter. It can be used it for solving performance issues with dragover and mouseover events.
  • GTK/QT application icon support for GTK and QT platforms webview.start(icon=<path>)

# 🚀 Improvements

  • All Storage path is now verified for write permissions before application start. An exception is thrown, if path is not writable.
  • All Refined logic at which point of the startup procedure shown event is fired.
  • Cocoa Better handling of stopping event loop in headless environments.
  • Windows Fallback to WinForms when QT is forced and not available
  • Windows Remove white border in a fullscreen window.
  • Windows Support multiple selection in open folder dialog.

# 🐞 Bug fixes

  • All Support for Unicode filenames in drag and drop. Thanks @hustshenl
  • Cocoa Fix open file dialog file type selector and all files filter
  • Cocoa Fix folder drag and drop. Thanks @pythons
  • GTK Fix multiple file drag and drop on certain Linux distributions. Thanks @coffeejunk
  • QT QT6 compatilibity
  • QT Release of profile requested but WebEnginePage still not deleted with multiple windows
  • Windows Graceful handling for shcore.dll not being present on Windows 7. Thanks @rafael-vasconcellos.
  • Windows Return result of open folder dialog is fixed to tuple.
  • Edge Chromium Current url not being updated after a navigation event. Thanks @hustshenl

# 5.2

Released 17/08/2024

# 🚀 Improvements

  • All Replace print with logging in JS API exception handling.
  • All Replace ssl.wrap_socket() with SSLContext().wrap_socket(). Thanks @lanzz
  • WinForms Add a modern Vista open folder dialog. Thanks @v_yonghliao
  • Winforms Fallback to Winforms when QT is forced, but not available.
  • EdgeChromium Replace window.alert with a message box implementation.
  • MSHTML Convert JS API code to ES5 to be compatible with MSHTML.

# 🐞 Bug fixes

  • All Add missing return in DOM.body property. Thanks @lanzz.
  • All Use json.dumps to serialise the html template in create_element. Thanks @lanzz
  • All Fix ever-growing main menu bug. Thanks @lanzz
  • All Change on_closing event handlers to be executed synchronously in order to prevent a deadlock when using thread join. #1439
  • All Fix TypeError: unhashable type with certain unhashable object types exposed via JS API. #1442
  • Cocoa Fix nil pointer dereference during file download. Thanks @realityone.
  • EdgeChromium Support multiple pywebviews at the same time. Thanks @huan1936.
  • QT QT6 compatibility.
  • QT Fix devtools in PySide6. Thanks @TransparentLC
  • QT Fix user agent.
  • QT Fix segfault on window close.

# 5.1

Released 18/04/2024

# ⚡ Features

  • All Clear all the cookies (including HttpOnly) with window.clear_cookies(). Sponsored by TBS (opens new window)
  • All pywebview event handler can now have an optional window parameter that holds an instance of the Window object that triggered the event.

# 🚀 Improvements

  • Windows Add window shadow with webview.create_window(..., shadow=True). Thanks @yllhwa

# 🐞 Bug fixes

  • Cocoa Fix showing window
  • QT Fix fetching cookies in private mode
  • QT Fix blank screen in Pop! OS. Thanks @ysfchn.
  • GTK Fix frameless windows having a hard-coded minimum size. Thanks @coffeejunk

# 5.0.5

Released 07/03/2024

# 🐞 Bug fixes

  • All Prevent infinite recursion in nested JS API #1327
  • CEF Crash due incorrect settings #1330
  • QT WebEnginePage not deleted after window is closed #1328
  • QT Blank screen on certain Linux systems #1325

# 5.0.4

Released 04/03/2024

# 🐞 Bug fixes

  • All Python 3.7 compatibility

# 5.0.3

Released 03/03/2024

# 🚀 Improvements

  • QT window position is returned in coordinates excluding the window frame to be in line with provided coordinates.

# 🐞 Bug fixes

  • EdgeChromium CoreWebView2Settings exception in debug mode. #1323
  • QT Crashing when closing additional windows #525
  • QT DevTools failing to focus on open

# 5.0.1

Released 02/03/2024

# ⚡ Features

  • Android support. pywebview can now be used on Android devices with help of buildozer (opens new window) in producing APK. #377
  • DOM manipulation, traversal and events. pywebview provides a set of functions for mutating DOM nodes and traversing DOM, as well as you can subscribe to DOM events directly in Python. #1218
  • Application settings webview.settings. You can now override default behaviour of pywebview by modifying this dictionary. Currently configurable settings include.
webview.settings = {
    'ALLOW_DOWNLOADS': False, # Allow file downloads
    'ALLOW_FILE_URLS': True, # Allow access to file:// urls
    'OPEN_EXTERNAL_LINKS_IN_BROWSER': True, # Open target=_blank links in an external browser
    'OPEN_DEVTOOLS_IN_DEBUG': True, # Automatically open devtools when `start(debug=True)`.
}
  • Support for file downloads. To enable file downloads, set webview.settings['ALLOW_DOWNLOADS'] = True. Disabled by default.
  • Full path support for file drag n drop. To get a full path of the dragged file, pywebview introduces event['domTransfer']['files'][0]['pywebviewFullPath'] value in the drop event caught on the Python side. To subscribe to the event you use window.dom.document.events.drop += on_drop.
  • window.maximize() - maximize window.

# 🚀 Improvements

  • All A more powerful JS data serializer capable of handling different data types and detecting circular references #1217
  • All Nested JS API support. See examples/js_api.py for details. Thanks @AlecHaring
  • All BREAKING: window.get_elements returns a list of instances of a new Element object.
  • All BREAKING: evaluate_js throws a webview.errors.JavascriptException if executed codes raises an error
  • Windows WebView2 control updated to 1.0.2045.28
  • Windows Add SSL support for local HTTP server.
  • GTK Update deprecated code

# 🐞 Bug fixes

  • Cocoa Suppress secure coding is not enabled for restorable state warning. Thanks @awesomo4000
  • EdgeChromium Background color not available in webview2. Thanks @Vanthys
  • EdgeChromium Multiple focus events on window show. Thanks @yllhwa
  • GTK Fallback for Webkit4.0 if 4.1 not found. Thanks @starnight.
  • QT Fix user agent string. #1256 Thanks @TransparentLC.
  • QT Solve the blank main window issue on RHEL9. Thanks @justincui #1266
  • QT Submenu actions firing incorrectly #1318

# 4.4.1

Released 31/10/2023

# 🐞 Bug fixes

  • GTK Fallback for Webkit4.0 if 4.1 not found.

# 4.4

Released 26/10/2023

# 🐞 Bug fixes

  • Cocoa Window not retaining focus on keystrokes. #1187
  • Cocoa App crashing when closing fullscreen window. #1236
  • Cocoa Video keeps playing after closing window. #1235
  • Cocoa Uploaded file is empty if filename contains a space. #1231
  • Cocoa Return value of confirmation dialog created by window.confirm. #976
  • Windows Fullscreen application disappearing after disconnecting extended display. #1229

# 🚀 Improvements

  • All Don't start http server for file:// urls. Thanks @glorpen
  • GTK Bump WebKit2 to 4.1. Thanks @starnight
  • Windows Disable swipe navigation #1230
  • Windows Window is changed to fullscreen on the current monitor in a multi-monitor setup.

# 4.3.3

Released 08/09/2023

# 🐞 Bug fixes

  • QT Fix QT implementation

# 4.3.2

Released 01/09/2023

# 🐞 Bug fixes

  • Winforms Fix easy_drag from being always enabled.

# 4.3.1

Released 30/08/2023

# 🐞 Bug fixes

  • Cocoa Add missing maximized implementation

# 4.3

Released 30/08/2023

# ⚡ Features

  • All webview.create_window(maximized=False) Create a window in a maximized state. Thanks @vsajip
  • All webview.create_window(screen=screen_instance) Create a window on a specific monitor, where screen is a screen returned by window.screens. Thanks @louisnw01
  • All Window title can be obtained / set via window.title.

# 🚀 Improvements

  • All Window closing event fired after closing confirmation #1178. Thanks @p4bl0-
  • All Improve performance of JS API calls by removing the initial delay of 100ms.
  • GTK Native JS Bridge. HTTP server based JS bridge is removed.
  • GTK Remove support for Webkit older than 2.2

# 🐞 Bug fixes

  • All Easy drag memory leak #1176
  • Winforms Easy drag support #1125
  • Winforms Incorrect DPI scaling
  • Winforms Private mode not working if webview.screens is returned before webview.start #1193
  • QT Add no sandbox for arch/manjaro/nixos to avoid white screen problem #890. Thanks @myuanz
  • GTK Closing event handlers cancellation. Thanks @p4bl0-
  • GTK SEGFAULT on second webview.start() call #1063. Thanks @PercentBoat4164

# 4.2.2

Released 25/06/2023

  • All Fix 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'start_server'. #1159

# 4.2.1

Released 22/06/2023

  • All Fix installation

# 4.2

Released 22/06/2023

# ⚡ Features

  • All webview.create_window(focus=False) to create a non-focusable window. Thanks @mi4code #1030.

# 🚀 Improvements

  • All Modernization of project infrastructure + typing. Thanks @demberto.
  • Winforms Top level menu item support. Thanks @zhengxiaoyao0716.
  • Winforms Disable touchpad elastic overscroll. Thanks @firai.

# 🐞 Bug fixes

  • Winforms Unable to load DLL 'WebView2Loader.dll': The specified module could not be found. Thanks @kawana77b #1078
  • Cocoa Fix missing pip dependency pyobjc-framework-security.

# 4.1

Released 02/05/2023

# ⚡ Features

  • Cocoa/QT/GTK SSL support for built-in http server webview.start(ssl=True). Thanks @keredson

# 🚀 Improvements

  • All JS API exceptions are now printed both in Python and Javascript consoles.
  • All Hide menu bar when there is no menu. Thanks @Joffreybvn

# ⚡ Features

  • All Fix bug where http_port was not being forwarded to the actual window #1060. Thanks @robb-brown
  • All Switch from tempfile to os.devnull to fix PyInstaller issue. Thanks @simonrob
  • Cocoa Fix getting cookies in cocoa. Thanks @eerimoq
  • Cocoa Fix exception occurring when main menu for application cannot be obtained.
  • Windows A more robust logic for setting user data directory. Thanks @al-eax
  • Windows Fix exception when executing a menu function
  • Windows Fix the title and message of the confirmation dialog. Thanks @zhengxiaoyao0716

# 4.0.2

Released 21/02/2023

# 🚀 Improvements

  • All HTTP server is now multithreaded. This should prevent stalled requests. #1025
  • Windows webview.start(storage_path) can now be set in private mode. This can be useful if you do not have write access to EdgeChromium default data directory and get 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED) error. #1026

# 🐞 Bug fixes

  • All Fix AttributeError: module 'webview.http' has no attribute 'running' exception occurring when multiple windows are opened. Thanks @YidaozhanYa. #1024
  • Winforms Fix on_top not having any effect on Windows. #1036
  • Winforms Fix create_window(hidden=True) makes the show() command not work #1050
  • Windows Fix pyinstaller compatibility on Windows. Thanks @simonrob #1044
  • CEF Fix window.get_cookies() throwing KeyError exception. #1021
  • Cocoa Fix non-QWERTY keyboard shortcuts. Thanks @max-uho
  • QT Fix web inspector preventing to open. #1028
  • GTK Fix "ImportError: Requiring namespace 'Soup' version '2.4', but '3.0' is already loaded" Thanks @YidaozhanYa #1041

# 4.0.1

Released 19/01/2023

# 🚀 Improvements

  • All Suppress HTTP server logging if not in debug mode.

# 🐞 Bug fixes

  • All Fix HTTP server starting twice with a single window. Thanks @robb-brown.

# 4.0

Released 18/01/2023

# 💔 BREAKING CHANGES

  • All Window events are moved into window.events namespace. window.loaded, window.shown etc no longer work.
  • EdgeHTML support is removed.

# ⚡ Features

  • All Local homegrown HTTP server is replaced with bottle.py (opens new window). Thanks @robb-brown for WSGI support.
  • All Native application menu support. See examples/menu.py for usage example. Thanks @sardination
  • All webview.start(private_mode=True, storage_path=None) Private mode and persistant storage support in a non-private mode. Private mode is enabled by default.
  • All webview.create_window(zoomable=False) Enable / disable zooming on webpage. Disabled by default.
  • All webview.create_window(draggable=False) Enable / disable dragging of IMG and A elements. Disabled by default.
  • All webview.create_confirmation_dialog(title, content) creates a confirmation (Ok, Cancel) dialog. Thanks @sardination.
  • All window.get_cookies() retrieve all the cookies (including HttpOnly) for the current webpage.
  • macOS webview.create_window(vibancy=False) Window vibrancy suppport. macOS only. Thanks @CahierX.

# 🚀 Improvements

  • All Local relative URLs (eg. src/index.html) are opened using the built-in http server by default. Support for local URLs is still possible using file:// schema
  • Cocoa Disable Ctrl+click context menu. Thanks @ecpost.
  • EdgeChromium Improve evaluate_js performance.
  • GTK Enable media / audio / WebGL / clipboard related WebKit features

# 🐞 Bug fixes

  • Cocoa Fix passing through keyboard events handled by pywebview. Thanks @ecpost.
  • GTK Fix JS bridge maximum return object size limitation. GTK's JS bridge is implemented via HTTP server.
  • GTK Fix hanging problem during window closing when JS evaluation is in progress

# 3.7.1

Released 14/11/2022

# 🐞 Bug fixes

  • Edge Chromium Better platform detection

# 🚀 Improvements

  • Edge Chromium ARM64 support

# 3.7

Released 04/11/2022

# ⚡ Features

  • All New window.events.moved event. Thanks @irtimir

# 🚀 Improvements

  • EdgeChromium Remove The system cannot find the file specified - Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime Registry path: Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Microsoft\EdgeUpdate\Clients{F3017226-FE2A-4295-8BDF-00C3A9A7E4C5} error message displayed in debug mode.
  • CEF error.log is no longer deleted when in debug mode.

# 🐞 Bug fixes

  • All Fix evaluate_js_async crash and program termination prevention. Thanks @detritophage.
  • WinForms Fix form initialization for pythonnet 3. Thanks @irtimir
  • CEF Fix errorous script execution in evaluate_js, so that further script do not get stuck. Thanks @irtimir
  • CEF Fix master uid not found error on startup.
  • QT Remove 'Empty key passed' messages. Thanks @TomFryers
  • QT PySide6 backend not working. Thanks @sbbosco
  • QT Prevent 'Release of profile requested but WebEnginePage still not deleted. Expect troubles !' message on close. Thanks @sbbosco

# 3.6.3

Released 05/04/2022

# 🐞 Bug fixes

  • Winforms Support for Edge Chromium v100. Thanks @greper.

# 3.6.2

Released 05/03/2022

# 🐞 Bug fixes

  • Cocoa Fix closing window

# 3.6.1

Released 16/02/2022

  • Fix CEF Exception on start

# 3.6

Released 15/02/2022

  • New All Python 3.6 is the minimum supported version from now on.
  • New All minimized, maximized, restored, resized events. Thanks @BillBridge for sponsorship.
  • New All evaluate_js async support. evaluate_js(code, callback) can evaluate promises via an optional callback parameter.
  • New All Events moved to its own window.events namespace (e.g. window.loaded → window.events.loaded). Old events are supported throughout 3.x and will be removed in 4.0.
  • New All window.resize(width, height, fix_point) has now an optional parameter fix_point that controls in respect to which point the window is resized.
  • New All MSHTML and EdgeHTML are deprecated. No further development will be done on these renderers.
  • New Winforms Focus webview on start or window activate events.
  • New EdgeChromium Custom user agent support.
  • New EdgeChromium Window transparency support. Mouse and keyboards events are not supported in transparent. Thanks @odtian.
  • New CEF Ability to pass custom CEF browser settings. Thanks @Rolf-MP.
  • Improvement EdgeChromium Support non-elevated installations of WebView2. Thanks @ultrararetoad.
  • Improvement EdgeChromium Better support for Edge Chromium runtime detectiom. Thanks @r-muthu-saravanan.
  • Improvement EdgeChromium WebView2 runtime updated to
  • Improvement QT Pyside support via PyQT wrapper. Thanks @tshemeng.
  • Fix Cocoa Make Ctrl-C (SIGINT) work on Cocoa when running from the command line
  • Fix EdgeChromium Fix `load_html. Thanks @sbbosco.
  • Fix Cocoa Fix cancelling of closing the window in the closing event Thanks @fizzadar.
  • Fix QT Fix simultaneous calls to JS API.
  • Fix GTK Fix concurrency issues with get_size, get_position and get_current_url.

# 3.5

Released 02/08/2021

  • New All Get information about available screens via new webview.screens property.
  • New All Per window localization. Thanks @fizzadar.
  • New All Window closing can be cancelled by returning False from a closing event handler. #744.
  • Fix All Debug mode cannot be set under certain conditions. #628
  • Improvement All Selected web renderer printed in Python console in debug mode.
  • Improvement All JS API serialization logic. Thanks @peter23
  • Improvement EdgeChromium Chromium runtime updated to version 1.0.774.44. Thanks @sbbosco.
  • Improvement EdgeChromium Custom user agent support.
  • Fix WinForms Icon handling logic to make pywebview compatible with pystray. #720. Thanks @simonrob
  • Fix EdgeChromium Change webview component to transparent. Thanks @ODtian
  • Fix CEF Fix exception when destroying window
  • Fix Cocoa cmd+w bypasses exit confirmation dialogue. #698. Thanks @fizzadar
  • Fix Cocoa Fix window coordinate calculation logic when moving a window.
  • Fix MSHTML Fix drag_region
  • Fix MSHTML Fix window.alert

# 3.4: Second wave

Released 04/12/2020

# 3.3.5

Released 26/09/2020

  • Fix EdgeHTML Server middleware handling
  • Fix EdgeHTML file:// url handling

# 3.3.4

Released 18/09/2020

  • Fix EdgeHTML Fix content not displaying with local URLs or local HTTP server
  • Fix Cocoa Fixes arrow keys not responding in text input fields. Thanks awesomo4000 (opens new window)

# 3.3.3

Released 08/08/2020

# 3.3.2

Released 28/07/2020

  • Fix All Load html triggers error - resolve_url() missing 1 required positional argument: 'should_serve' #562 (opens new window).
  • Fix Cocoa/GTK Access window size on closing #573 (opens new window).
  • Fix GTK Save file dialog now returns a string instead of a tuple.

# 3.3.1

Released 01/07/2020

# 3.3: Detroit Edition

Released 29/06/2020

  • New All Brand-new WSGI based internal HTTP server. Thanks @astronouth7303(https://github.com/astronouth7303).
  • New All Transparent window. Not available on Windows.
  • New All Allow pywebview window to be on top of other windows.
  • New All Custom window drag region using CSS classes. Thanks @Fizzadar(https://github.com/Fizzadar).
  • New All Custom user-agent support. Thanks @tognee(https://github.com/tognee).
  • Fix All Python function not triggered using JS #458 (opens new window).
  • Fix All window methods do not work in loaded event #528 (opens new window).
  • Fix Cocoa Caption bar and window control buttons are now hidden in frameless mode.
  • Fix CEF CEF window resize hang #484 (opens new window).
  • Fix MSHTML Fix easy drag in frameless mode.
  • Fix EdgeHTML Do not show admin prompt for non-local URLs.
  • Fix GTK Fix threading issues with recentish versions of PyGObject
  • Fix QT Fix opening web inspecting in debug mode

# 3.2: Humate Edition

Released 24/01/2020

  • New All Window x, y, width and height properties to retrieve coordinates and dimensions of the window. Thanks @Fizzadar(https://github.com/Fizzadar)
  • New All window.expose(func) an ability to expose an arbitrary function to the JS realm, also during the runtime.
  • Improvement All JS API methods can now accept an arbitrary number of arguments
  • Improvement All Exceptions thrown in a JS API method is now raised in Javascript via its promise.
  • Improvement All Exceptions thrown in window event handlers are now caught and logged.
  • Improvement All Random port assigned by the built-in HTTP server can be retrieved via webview.http_server.port
  • Improvement QT Microphone/webcam are enabled by default. Thanks @dtcooper(https://github.com/dtcooper)
  • Improvement QT Default debugger port is changed to 8228. Thanks @melvinkcx(https://github.com/melvinkcx)
  • Improvement CEF Ability to pass custom CEF settings via webview.platforms.cef.settings. See example for details.
  • Fix All Built-in HTTP server is properly restarted when using window.load_url
  • Fix Cocoa New window position is correctly calculated when using window.move
  • Fix EdgeHTML window.alert fix

# 3.1: Windows Edition

Released 04/11/2019

  • New All Window minimize/restore functionality. Ability to show window minimized on startup.
  • New All Window hide/show functionality. Ability to show window hidden on startup.
  • New All Window move functionality. Ability to set window coordinates on startup. Thanks @adbenitez.
  • New All New window.pywebviewreadyDOM event that is thrown when window.pywebview is available.
  • New All Links opened via window.open are opened in a new browser window.
  • Fix All Fix concurrent invocations of JS API functions.
  • Fix All Fix unescaped single quote in JS API calls.
  • Fix All Built-in HTTP server is now multi-threaded. This fixes stalling HTTP requests in some cases.
  • Improvement All window.set_window_size is deprecated in favour to window.resize.
  • Improvement All Exceptions are now handled in JS API functions and rerouted to the function promise catch method.
  • Improvement All Suppress built-in HTTP server logging. Logging is active only in the debug mode.
  • Fix CEF Fix deadlock occurring when trying to access window.pywebview object right after the window is created.
  • Fix CEF High DPI fix resulting in a small window appearing inside the main window,
  • Fix EdgeHTML Unicode error when loading HTML.
  • Fix MSHTML get_elements failing.
  • Fix MSHTML console.log not writing to Python console in debug mode.
  • Fix MSHTML Forcing MSHTML via gui=mshtml is now possible. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Windows 3.1

# 3.0.2

Released 17/08/2019

  • Fix All Prevent JSON like strings being converted to JSON objects when returning JS API calls. #352
  • Fix Windows HTTP server is now used by default for local URLs and HTML for EdgeHTML. This fixes a PermissionDenied error, when the directory the executable is in is not writable.
  • Fix Tests Tests now fail on an exception occurring in a thread.

# 3.0.1

Released 25/07/2019

  • Fix All Don't escape line breaks in result of js_bridge_call. Thanks @kvasserman.
  • Fix Windows Support for Pyinstaller noconsole mode
  • Fix Windows Fix Windows version detection with frozen executables.
  • Fix Windows Open folder dialog now supports directory argument.
  • Fix QT Workaround for segmentation fault on closing the main window. Thanks @kvasserman.
  • Fix Pytest Fix for pytest warning about invalid escape sequence

# 3.0

Released 11/07/2019

  • New All New API. The API is not compatible with older versions of pywebview. See https://pywebview.flowrl.com for usage details. #272
  • New All Built-in HTTP server. #260
  • New All Autogenerated CSRF token exposed as window.pywebview.token. #316
  • New All get_elements function to retrieve DOM nodes. #292
  • New All New events system that lets you to subscribe to events. loaded and shown events are implemented. #201
  • New Windows EdgeHTML support. Thanks @heavenvolkoff. #243
  • Fix Windows Fullscreen mode. #338
  • Fix GTK Better Javascript support for recent version of WebKit2
  • Fix CEF Support for PyInstaller in onefile mode

# 2.4

Released 17/02/2019

  • New All Support for frameless windows.
  • Fix Windows Fix broken installation of v2.3

# 2.3

Released 12/02/2019

  • New All Ability to resize window after creation webview.set_window_size(width, height). Thanks @aprowe #274
  • New Windows Chrome Embedded Framework (CEF) support #15
  • Improvement All pywebview does not interfer with Python's logger configuration #295
  • Fix All Empty DOM issues when window is created without a URL #285
  • Improvement macOS Web renderer upgraded to WKWebView
  • Improvement macOS Add support for Mojave dark mode
  • Fix macOS Problem with handling paths containing spaces #283
  • Fix QT Better support for QTWebKit and QTWebChannel #304
  • Improvement QT Remove support for QT4
  • Fix GTK Thrown exception not Python 2 compatible #277

# 2.2.1

Released 24/10/2018

  • Fix Dependency installation
  • New Reintroduce qt extra require switch

# 2.2

Released 23/10/2018

  • New Brand new documentation at https://pywebview.flowrl.com
  • Improvement Simplify installation. Now pywebview can be installed by pip install pywebview. Dependencies will be resolved and installed automatically
  • Improvement GTK Update to WebKit2

# 2.1

Released 16/09/2018

  • New All Introduce PYWEBVIEW_GUI environment variable and webview.config.gui property. Acceptable values are are qt, gtk and win32. USE_QT and USE_WIN32 is deprecated.
  • Fix Cocoa Closing main window does not result in program termination
  • Fix All New main window re-creation after closing. #229
  • Fix QT Debug mode #233
  • Fix Cocoa/Windows Preserve JS API on page reload
  • Fix Windows toggle_fullscreen() function #232. Thanks @lt94
  • Fix Windows load_css() function. Thanks @wormius.

# 2.0.3

Released 16/05/2018

  • Fix QT Fix a deadlock preventing QT implementation from starting
  • Fix QT QT is set to default on QT-based systems

# 2.0.1/2.0.2

Released 08/05/2018

  • Fix Winforms Fix installation of dlls

# 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 version 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