First of all, I know that this is a question only a beginner would ask, but after going through more than 50 different solutions, uninstalling npm and installing yarn I have to ask this incredible dumb question.
Why doesnt this work?
I want to implement a simple titlebar using ElectronJS, the problem that I have is that the buttons (Close / Minimize / Maximize) do not work. The errors that I receive are the following:
The minimize error: titlebar.js:16 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'BrowserWindow' of undefined at HTMLButtonElement.maximizeApp (titlebar.js:16)
The maximize error: titlebar.js:16 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'BrowserWindow' of undefined at HTMLButtonElement.maximizeApp (titlebar.js:16)
The quit error: titlebar.js:21 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'getCurrentWindow' of undefined at HTMLButtonElement.quitApp (titlebar.js:21)
The JavaScript file that I use to control this is called titlebar.js. This is it:
const remote_v = require("electron").remote;
var minimize_v = document.getElementById("minimize");
var maximize_v = document.getElementById("maximize");
var quit_v = document.getElementById("quit");
minimize_v.addEventListener("click",minimizeApp);
maximize_v.addEventListener("click",maximizeApp);
quit_v.addEventListener("click",quitApp);
function minimizeApp(){
remote_v.BrowserWindow.getFocusedWindow().minimize();
}
function maximizeApp(){
remote_v.BrowserWindow.getFocusedWindow().maximize();
}
function quitApp(){
remote_v.getCurrentWindow().close();
}
Since many of the fixes for other problems like this is in the render process, this is the HTML File:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<title>Visionizer</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/editor.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/titlebar.css" >
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="titlebar titlebarStyle">
<div class="windowTitle"> Visionizer </div>
<div class="windowControls windowControlsStyle">
<button id="minimize">-</button>
<button id="maximize">[]</button>
<button id="quit">x</button>
</div>
</div>
<div class="editorScreen">
</div>
</div>
<script src="js/titlebar.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
The weird thing about this is that, after much trying, I decided to copy the code from the tutorial from github, I thought that there may have been an error in my code that I was too dumb to see. It still didn't run. I uninstalled the package with npm and installed it with yarn using yarn global add electron@latest since some people suggested this.
I do not know whether this is important at all, but I will also copy my code from the main.js-file below since I want to be sure that I included everything:
const { app, BrowserWindow } = require('electron')
function createWindow () {
const win = new BrowserWindow({
width: 900,
height: 800,
minHeight: 650,
minWidth: 600,
frame: false,
webPreferences: {
nodeIntegration: true
}
})
win.loadFile('editor.html')
win.webContents.openDevTools()
}
app.whenReady().then(createWindow)
app.on('window-all-closed', () => {
if (process.platform !== 'darwin') {
app.quit()
}
})
app.on('activate', () => {
if (BrowserWindow.getAllWindows().length === 0) {
createWindow()
}
})
And here is the package.json file:
{
"dependencies": {
"electron": "^11.0.2"
},
"name": "*******",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "**********",
"main": "main.js",
"scripts": {
"start": "electron ."
},
"author": "************",
"license": "MIT"
}
Some questions on the internet were answered by saying that the project was started wrongly, I followed their advice, I start my projects using the yarn start command
Thank you for reading through this.
