From 550a66aaef473b8a9a36e340973bd264526da918 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: gintama91 <b9-20@srkrec.edu.in>
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2023 16:21:45 +0530
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] local images (base64)

---
 examples/local_images.rb |  4 ++++
 lib/scarpe/wv/image.rb   | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 examples/local_images.rb

diff --git a/examples/local_images.rb b/examples/local_images.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d771fa2e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/local_images.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Shoes.app do
+    image "docs/static/man-builds.png"
+  end
+  
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/lib/scarpe/wv/image.rb b/lib/scarpe/wv/image.rb
index 0885d6ffa..b2f18ce68 100644
--- a/lib/scarpe/wv/image.rb
+++ b/lib/scarpe/wv/image.rb
@@ -1,9 +1,14 @@
 # frozen_string_literal: true
 
+require "base64"
+require "uri"
+
 class Scarpe
   class WebviewImage < WebviewWidget
     def initialize(properties)
       super
+
+      @url = valid_url?(@url) ? @url : "data:image/png;base64,#{encode_image_to_base64(@url)}"
     end
 
     def element
@@ -20,6 +25,25 @@ def element
 
     private
 
+    def valid_url?(string)
+      uri = URI.parse(string)
+      uri.is_a?(URI::HTTP) || uri.is_a?(URI::HTTPS)
+    rescue URI::InvalidURIError, URI::BadURIError
+      false
+    end
+
+    def encode_image_to_base64(image_filename)
+      directory_path = File.dirname(__FILE__, 4)
+
+      image_path = File.join(directory_path, image_filename)
+
+      image_data = File.binread(image_path)
+
+      encoded_data = Base64.strict_encode64(image_data)
+
+      encoded_data
+    end
+
     def style
       styles = {}
 

From 74d259be1f0db4f5d3dcd3ba3bec5297893cc80a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: gintama91 <b9-20@srkrec.edu.in>
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2023 16:35:20 +0530
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] add webview dependencies to readme

---
 README.md | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 703a5e0aa..26f064faf 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -53,7 +53,9 @@ This is where most of the action is happening right now, and to have the full Sc
 # dependencies - Mac version
 brew install portaudio pkg-config # for sound!
 # dependencies - Ubuntu Linux version
-sudo apt-get install libportaudio2
+sudo apt install libgtk-3-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev libportaudio2
+
+for any other linux or windows. please see the webview docs for your [platform](https://github.com/webview/webview#prerequisites)
 
 # get it
 git clone http://github.com/scarpe-team/scarpe