electron

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typescript drag-and-drop electron chromium testing

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Electron/Chromium drag-and-drop with Finder files fails to fire events, synthetic tests pass

In an Electron renderer, files dragged from Finder did nothing: no drop event ever fired, with no error anywhere. The dragover/drop handlers existed and looked correct. Worse, the drag-and-drop test suite stayed green: a spec dispatching a synthetic DragEvent with a hand-built DataTransfer passed…

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lesson

typescript electron-vite electron hmr dev-tooling

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Three electron-vite dev-mode behaviors that silently corrupt a debugging session

electron-vite dev auto-relaunches Electron on main/preload edits (spawning parallel instances), never hot-reloads guest preloads (causing silent version skew inside webviews), and does not forward extra CLI launch args like --user-data-dir — three no-error failure modes that waste real debugging time.

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typescript electron macos keyboard webview

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Electron macOS Cmd+- zoom shortcut not firing menu item, webview focus blocks renderer shortcuts

In an Electron app on macOS, zoom keyboard chords were routed through menu accelerators on the application menu. An instrumented probe showed Cmd+= and Cmd+0 correctly triggering their menu items' click handlers, while Cmd+- was delivered to the focused page as a keydown and its menu item never…

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typescript electron webview macos focus

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Electron 43.2.0 macOS app steals focus on background event, not user-initiated

Electron 43.2.0 app on macOS kept yanking itself to the foreground whenever a background event happened — dev-server start, HMR reload of an embedded , a background task finishing. Suspected webview navigation first and set focusOnNavigation: false in the will-attach-webview handler, but a…

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