'About This App' Window for Electron Apps
This package provides 'About This App' window for Electron applications.
You can install this module via npm.
$ npm install about-window
Only one function is exported as default. Please see TypeScript type definition. The function can be called from both main process and renderer process.
export default function openAboutWindow(info: {
icon_path: string;
product_name?: string;
package_json_dir?: string;
about_page_dir?: string;
bug_report_url?: string;
bug_link_text?: string;
copyright?: string;
homepage?: string;
description?: string;
license?: string;
css_path?: string | string[];
adjust_window_size?: boolean;
win_options?: BrowserWindowOptions;
use_version_info?: boolean;
show_close_button?: string;
}): BrowserWindow
Only icon_path
property is required, others are optional.
I recommend to specify as below to extract information from package.json as much as possible.
Path to package.json is also automatically detected if possible.
openAboutWindow({
icon_path: 'path/to/icon.png'
});
If string
value is passed to the first parameter, it is passed to icon_path
. So following is a shorthand of above code:
openAboutWindow('path/to/icon.png');
You can check an example app to know how to use this package.
$ git clone https://github.com/rhysd/about-window.git
$ cd about-window/example
$ npm install
$ npm start
# Or for debug
$ npm run debug
openAboutWindow()
Name | Description | Type |
---|---|---|
icon_path |
Path to icon file of the application. The path is passed to src property of <img> element. Required |
string |
package_json_dir |
Path to directory which contains package.json. If not specified, it will try to detect a path to package.json. If also failed, it gives up and show less information in 'About This App' window. Optional | string |
bug_report_url |
URL to bug report page. If not specified, 'bugs' entry in package.json is used. Optional | string |
copyright |
Copyright notice shown in window. If not specified, it is replaced with license description generated by 'license' entry of package.json. Optional | string |
homepage |
URL of application's web page. If not specified, 'homepage' entry of package.json is used instead. Optional | string |
description |
Description of the application. If not specified, 'description' entry of package.json is used instead. Optional | string |
license |
License of the application. If not specified, 'license' entry of package.json is used instead. This property is used when copyright is not specified. Optional |
string |
win_options |
Options of 'About This App' window. It is merged into default options. Optional | BrowserWindow options object |
css_path |
Path(s) to user-defined CSS file. It will be inserted to DOM of the window. Optional | (array of) string |
adjust_window_size |
Adjust the window size to its content not to show scroll bar. Optional | boolean |
open_devtools |
For debug purpose, Chrome DevTools will start when the window is opened. Optional | boolean |
use_inner_html |
If true , set the value with .innerHTML on copyright, license and description Default is false . Optional |
boolean |
bug_link_text |
Text for a bug report link. Optional | string |
product_name |
Name of the application Optional | string |
use_version_info |
If false , the versions of electron, chrome, node, and v8 will not be displayed. Default is true . Optional |
boolean |
show_close_button |
If this is a valid string, a close button with this string be displayed. Optional | string |
about_page_dir |
Directory path which contains about.html which is rendered in 'About this app' window. Optional |
string |
Note: If you set use_inner_html
to true
, please ensure that contents don't contain any untrusted external input
in order to avoid XSS. Be careful.