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Re:Wails – Electron Alternative Powered by Go by badrabbit on Thursday June 16, 2022 @09:55AM (#31766077)
Spent some time learning this and playing with this till I ran into a roadblock that it doesn't support multiple windows which was a deal breaker for my idea. Wish I had the time to learn and contribute a PR. It was a great tool otherwise. I needed to do electron without the bloat and backend JS. There are no good solutions from what I researched, things like QT are still king in this area it seems.
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Re:Wails – Electron Alternative Powered by Go by mbreese on Thursday June 16, 2022 @10:28AM (#31766466)
When you say multiple windows, what do you mean? Both GH links mention using iframes. So do you mean multiple “windows” within the primary application window? Or do you mean multiple primary windows?

Are you talking about tabs? Or multiple windows (like finder/explorer)?

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Re:Wails – Electron Alternative Powered by Go by badrabbit on Thursday June 16, 2022 @11:59AM (#31767556)
Multiple actual windows, Each window on a different monitor.
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Re:Wails – Electron Alternative Powered by Go by wener on Thursday June 16, 2022 @10:15AM (#31766282)
Asked for the same thing, but it's impossible or too hard to do it.

- https://github.com/wailsapp/wails/discussions/1452

- https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/2709

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Re:Wails – Electron Alternative Powered by Go by pstuart on Thursday June 16, 2022 @11:18AM (#31767080)
Huh? Per the wails thread:

> No multi window currently but planned after v2 release

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Re:Wails – Electron Alternative Powered by Go by u1tron on Thursday June 16, 2022 @10:29AM (#31766473)
These days any apps or framework written rust seems exotic.

Atleast both are better than electron.

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Re:Wails – Electron Alternative Powered by Go by hogyncymraeg on Thursday June 16, 2022 @06:05PM (#31771592)
Multiple windows has some interesting nuances but we do aim to tackle that post v2. You would be surprised at just how much is involved in refining something like this, even with just a single window to worry about.
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Re:Wails – Electron Alternative Powered by Go by badrabbit on Thursday June 16, 2022 @10:36PM (#31773552)
Oh I don't doubt that one bit. Thank you for your hard work on it.
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Re:Wails – Electron Alternative Powered by Go by xhevahir on Thursday June 16, 2022 @11:55AM (#31767506)
NeutralinoJS supports this, apparently: https://github.com/neutralinojs/neutralinojs/issues/249
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Re:Wails – Electron Alternative Powered by Go by badrabbit on Thursday June 16, 2022 @05:29PM (#31771211)
Still JS.
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Re:Wails – Electron Alternative Powered by Go by gaws on Thursday June 16, 2022 @10:32PM (#31773517)
Are tabs an option?
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Re:Wails – Electron Alternative Powered by Go by badrabbit on Thursday June 16, 2022 @10:34PM (#31773538)
Nope, content needs to be on multiple monitors at once.
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Re:Wails – Electron Alternative Powered by Go by gaws on Thursday June 16, 2022 @10:38PM (#31773566)
I meant are tabbed views possible with wails?
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Re:Wails – Electron Alternative Powered by Go by euroderf on Friday June 17, 2022 @02:20AM (#31774687)
Not to mention a treeview !
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