pywebview

• Fix Dependency installation
• New Reintroduce [qt] extra require switch

• New Brand new documentation at https://pywebview.flowrl.com
• Improvement Simplify installation. Now pywebview can be installed by pip install pywebview. Dependencies will be resolved and installed automatically
• Improvement [GTK] Update to WebKit2

• New [All] Introduce PYWEBVIEW_GUI environment variable and webview.config.gui property. Acceptable values are are qt, gtk and win32. USE_QT and USE_WIN32 is deprecated.
• Fix [Cocoa] Closing main window does not result in program termination
• Fix [All] New main window re-creation after closing. #229
• Fix [QT] Debug mode #233
• Fix [Cocoa/Windows] Preserve JS API on page reload
• Fix [Windows] toggle_fullscreen() function #232. Thanks @lt94
• Fix [Windows] load_css() function. Thanks @wormius.

[QT] Fix a deadlock preventing QT implementation from starting
[QT] QT is set to default on QT-based systems

• [Windows] Yet another fix to the pip installation problem

• [Windows] Fix installation through pip

• New [All] Multi-window support
• New [All] Ability to call Python code from Javascript via window.pywebview.api
• New [All] Debug mode. Web inspector for Cocoa/GTK/QT and basic debug information for WinForms.
• New [All] File filter support in create_file_dialog
• New [All] target='_blank' links are now opened in an external browser
• New [All] Change window title via a set_title function #159
• New [All] load_css function
• New [All] Support for relative local URLs in create_window / load_html. Linked local resources are resolved as well. #186
• New [All] todos example app demonstrating js api and relative local URLs.
• New [All] Text select in the webview window is disabled by default. Added text_select argument to create_window function.
• New [QT] OpenBSD 6.x support #213. Thanks @hucste.
• Fix [All] base_uri parameter of load_html defaults to the directory of the entry script
• Fix [All] Consistent return types with evaluate_js across different platforms #175
• Fix [All] Various concurrency issues and deadlocks
• Fix [Winforms] Hide Message from webpage when using alert Javascript function #150
• Fix [Winforms] Support for high DPI #179
• Fix [QT] Support for QT 5.10 #171. Thanks @adbenitez
• Fix [QT] Deprecate QT4. Starting from this verison new features won't be tested on QT4 and support will be removed in the future.

• pywebview has the official logo
• @shivaprsdv is now an official maintainer of the project
• New [All] Add an ability to run Javascript code using evaluate_js function
• Fix [Cocoa] Implement missing webview components (file input dialog, alert()/confirm() JS functions)
• Fix [Winforms] Fix issue with non-responsive UI when a loading screen background color is used
• Fix [Winforms] Add support for Del and Ctrl+A keys in input elements.
• New [QT] QT5 is now prefererred over QT4
• Fix [QT] Fix return parameters of create_file_dialog to have the same format as on other platforms
• Fix [GTK] Better threading model. Thanks to @jorants #121

• New [All] Add a basic test suite and continuous integration. #88
• New [All] Add a background_color parameter to create_window, which specifies the default color of the webview window. Refer to examples/loading_indicator.py for example use. Thanks to @shivaprsdv. #90
• New [Cocoa] Disable backspace navigation. Thanks to @shivaprsdv. #102
• New [Cocoa] Implementation of window.print() and window.confirm method. Thanks to @shivaprsdv. #97
• Fix [Cocoa] Fix non-existing localization string in save file dialog
• New [Winforms] Disable all the shortcut keys of web navigation
• Fix [Winforms] Fix load_html failing sometimes due thread violation
• Fix [GTK] Implement fall-through to QT, when GTK is present, but not GTK.WebKit.

Released 29/03/2017

• New [All] Quit confirmation dialog
• New [All] webview.config can be used using the dot notation (ie. webview.config.use_win32 = True)
• New [Winforms] Disable context menu
• Fix [Winforms] Application icon is now visible in the application window when frozen with PyInstaller
• Fix [Mac] load_html() is invoked as soon as the webview is ready
• Fix [QT] get_current_url() not working due a typo. Thanks @maroc81.
• Fix [GTK] Better exception handling when GTK is not found
• Fix [GTK] destroy_window()

• New [All] toggle_fullscreen function #52
• New [All] get_current_url function #76
• New [Winforms] Javascript errors are now suppressed
• Fix [Winforms] Fixed resizable=False not being enforced #73

• New [All] pip installation now supports choosing what dependencies to install. See README for more information. Thanks @josePhoenix
• New [All] Localization support. Refer to examples/localization.py for an example use
• New [Mac] QT5 support
• Fix [Windows] File dialogs are now attached to the main window
• Fix [Windows] Pyinstaller crash issue with an icon in Windows Forms

• New [Cocoa] Added View -> Fullscreen standard menu item. Thanks to @bastula.
• New [Cocoa] Added About menu item #45. Thanks to @bastula.
• New [Windows] An application icon for Windows Forms
• Fix [Windows] Removed unnecessary pywin32 dependencies from Windows Forms #60
• Fix [Linux] Thread violation in load_url in GTK implementation #59

• Fix [All] Python 2 compatibility issue in Flask Example (#52). Thanks to @bastula.
• Fix [Windows] Python 3 compatibility issue in Windows Forms implementation (#51)
• Fix [Linux] Resizing width/height: 100% problem on GTK (#53). Thanks to @klausweiss.

• Fix [Linux] Fix GTK window failing to open. Thanks to @lchish. #50

• New [All] Introduced load_html function that allows dynamic loading of HTML code, instead of a URL. Implemented for all platforms except Win32 (use Windows Forms). Thanks to @ysobolev #39
• New [All] Added an example of a Flask-based application skeleton. The example can be found in examples/flask_app
• New [Windows] Windows Forms based implementation of webview window. Requires pythonnet.
• New [Windows] Introduced config["USE_WIN32"] variable that lets you choose between Win32 and Windows Forms. Default to True (Windows Forms will be made as default in the future)
• Fix [Windows/Linux] Got rid of installation dependencies on Windows and Linux. The dependencies now have to be installed by hand and the choice of dependencies is left to user
• Fix [Linux] Compatibility with Qt 5.5. Thanks to @danidee10. #48

• New [OSX] Add a default application menu #35. Thanks @cuibonobo
• New [Linux] GTK is made as default and pypi dependency added. USE_GTK environment variable is also deprecated. To use QT, set webview.config["USE_QT"] = True
• Fix [Windows] Open folder of create_file_dialog now returns Unicode, instead of byte encoding.

• Fixed [Windows] Fix a dead-lock that sometimes occurs on a window creation, when used with a HTTP server running in a separate thread.

• Fix [Windows] PyInstaller: Icon not found #29

• New [All] Add an ability to programmatically destroy a webview window
• Fix [Windows] Fullscreen mode
• Fix [Windows] Change setup.py to use pypiwin32 #22
• Fix [Windows] Relative import of win32_gen fixed on Python 3 #20. Thanks to @yoavram for the contribution
• Fix [Windows] FileNotFound exception on Windows 2003. Thanks to @jicho for the contribution
• Fix [OSX] Non-SSL URLs are allowed by default on El Capitan. Thanks to @cr0hn for the contribution