NplCefBrowser

NplCefBrowser is a npl package and paracraft mod which include a wrapper of Chromium Embedded Framework 3(cef). After installing this package, NPL could create cef3 browser via scripting interface.

Main classes

• NplCefBrowserManager:manage npl communication with cef's dll, only one direction which npl call cef's dll is valid, npl don't receive a callback from cef's dll. a unique id is important for communication. this id's value is same as cef window's name. cef's dll source is here
• pe_cefbrowser:a mcml tag which inlucde a cef window.
• pe_resizeable:a mcml tag which can resize cef window.

Build

Git clone with submodules. and run

build_without_update.bat

it will generate NplCefBrowser.zip file in root directory.

Install

Method1: One can do it via Mod GUI in paracraft. Method2: Manually copy NplCefBrowser.zip to Mod/ folder.

• In paracraft, one should see somehing like below:

Please note, the first time the plugin is enabled or if a newer plugin is installed, it will automatically extract 30MB Chrome core executable files from the zip archive to a disk file folder at Mod/NplCef3. The folder has the same layout of the git submodule https://github.com/NPLPackages/NplCef3. This could take 3-10 seconds to complete, if one wants to avoid zipping on first use, one can manually deploy those chrome files.

Example

NPL.load("(gl)Mod/NplCefBrowser/NplCefWindowManager.lua");
local NplCefWindowManager = commonlib.gettable("Mod.NplCefWindowManager");
NplCefWindowManager:Open(); -- Open a default window

NPL.load("(gl)Mod/NplCefBrowser/NplCefWindowManager.lua");
local NplCefWindowManager = commonlib.gettable("Mod.NplCefWindowManager");
 -- Open a new window
NplCefWindowManager:Open("my_window", "Npl window", "http://www.nplproject.com/", "_lt", 100, 100, 800, 560);
--test1

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