I'm using Electron
(formerly atom-shell) and would like to have a minimalist frame window so that the three OSX window buttons (close, maximize, minimize) are visible from within the HTML page.
I set the Electron option frame
to false
when defining the BrowserWindow
to have a chromeless, frameless window.
And I thought I could handle the close button with something like this:
<a btn href="#" id="close" onclick="window.top.close(); return false"></a>
With no luck, sadly. Any idea how to achieve this?
You must access the BrowserWindow object created by your main process and call the minimize
, maximize
, and close
methods on that. You can access this using the remote
module. Here is an example of binding all three buttons:
const remote = require('electron').remote;
document.getElementById("min-btn").addEventListener("click", function (e) {
var window = remote.getCurrentWindow();
window.minimize();
});
document.getElementById("max-btn").addEventListener("click", function (e) {
var window = remote.getCurrentWindow();
if (!window.isMaximized()) {
window.maximize();
} else {
window.unmaximize();
}
});
document.getElementById("close-btn").addEventListener("click", function (e) {
var window = remote.getCurrentWindow();
window.close();
});
assuming your min, max, close buttons have ids of min-btn
, max-btn
, and close-btn
, respectively.
You can view the full documentation for the BrowserWindow along with other functionality you might need here: http://electron.atom.io/docs/v0.28.0/api/browser-window/.
It might also help you to take a look at a tutorial I wrote about building a chromeless window that looks like Visual Studio here: http://www.mylifeforthecode.com/making-the-electron-shell-as-pretty-as-the-visual-studio-shell. Your question is covered along with some css to properly position the buttons.