min height and width

[kingsleyh]

Hey

Do you know if it's possible to configure or set the min width and height so that the resizable window is not squashed tiny but stops at the min height and width.

[s0kil]

@kingsleyh I'm guessing you tried setting it for the body as in https://github.com/s0kil/mint-tauri-starter/blob/master/source/common.css ?

[kingsleyh]

yeah I tried putting: min-height: 200px; into that - but doesn't make any difference. I think something must need to be specified as min height at the window level e.g like in tauri.conf.json or something - but that only seems to allow resizable, height, width and not the min

[s0kil]

Turns out Tauri does not yet support such API.

[kingsleyh]

Do you think something like this repo could be created for Electron and Mint?

[s0kil]

Another option is to use pywebview, it supports the API you are looking for.
If you persist with Electron then Nativefier is probably what you want, it also supports the min width/height API.

[kingsleyh]

I’ll try them out - I couldn’t get Mint to work in Electron earlier

[s0kil]

Could you please elaborate on the problem(s) you encountered with Electron + Mint?

[s0kil]

Here Is the Mint website as Electron app

It is bulky, 190 MB.

[kingsleyh]

how did you make that work?

[kingsleyh]

I put the Mint app in the electron wrapper and just a white screen appeared

e.g.

const electron = require('electron')
// Module to control application life.
const app = electron.app
// Module to create native browser window.
const BrowserWindow = electron.BrowserWindow

const path = require('path')
const url = require('url')

// Keep a global reference of the window object, if you don't, the window will
// be closed automatically when the JavaScript object is garbage collected.
let mainWindow

/**
 */
function createWindow () {
 // variables
 const WEB_FOLDER = 'dist';
 const PROTOCOL = 'file';

 electron.protocol.interceptFileProtocol(PROTOCOL, (request, callback) => {
   // strip protocol
   let url = request.url.substr(PROTOCOL.length + 1);

   // build path
   url = path.join(__dirname, WEB_FOLDER, url);

   // replace backslashes with forward slashes (windows)
  //  url = url.replace(/\\/g, '/');
   url = path.normalize(url);

   console.log(url);
   callback({path: url});
  });

  // Create the browser window.
  mainWindow = new BrowserWindow({
    width: 1200, height: 600, minWidth: 300, minHeight: 300,
    webPreferences: {
      nodeIntegration: false
      }
  })

  // and load the index.html of the app.
 // and load the index.html of the app.
mainWindow.loadURL(url.format({
  pathname: 'index.html',
  protocol: PROTOCOL + ':',
  slashes: true
  }));

  // Open the DevTools.
  mainWindow.webContents.openDevTools()

  // Emitted when the window is closed.
  mainWindow.on('closed', function () {
    // Dereference the window object, usually you would store windows
    // in an array if your app supports multi windows, this is the time
    // when you should delete the corresponding element.
    mainWindow = null
  })
}

// This method will be called when Electron has finished
// initialization and is ready to create browser windows.
// Some APIs can only be used after this event occurs.
app.on('ready', createWindow)

// Quit when all windows are closed.
app.on('window-all-closed', function () {
  // On OS X it is common for applications and their menu bar
  // to stay active until the user quits explicitly with Cmd + Q
  app.quit()
})

app.on('activate', function () {
  // On OS X it's common to re-create a window in the app when the
  // dock icon is clicked and there are no other windows open.
  if (mainWindow === null) {
    createWindow()
  }
})

// In this file you can include the rest of your app's specific main process
// code. You can also put them in separate files and require them here.

[s0kil]

• Serve the Mint output dist folder: cd dist; python3 -m http.server
• Start Nativefier on local server: nativefier --name "Tako" "http://0.0.0.0:8000"
• Nativefier will gather all assets required and package into Electron app.

[s0kil]

@kingsleyh Tauri now adds new configuration options to set the window width and height.

Not exactly minimum window width and height, but maybe still useful.