I wanted to show loading screen in electron js when window.open is opening some url.
example : window.open("https://example.com");
window.webContents.on("new-window", (event, url) => {
// there are more args not used here
event.preventDefault();
loading = new BrowserWindow({ width: 300, height: 300, transparent: true, frame: false, alwaysOnTop: true });
loading.loadURL(`file://${__dirname}/splash.html`);
const win = new BrowserWindow({ show: false, width: 1200, height: 1000 });
win.webContents.once("dom-ready", () => {
win.show();
loading.hide(); // don't destroy in this case
});
win.loadURL(url);
loading.show();
event.newGuest = win;
});
I tried above code and its working fine , except for some site is losing cookies/session when opened popup via new Browserwindow.. can i just get dom-ready callback on window.open() directly... so i can hide my loading screen...
basically i just want to window.open to open windows normally and want loading screen to be shown until pages are loaded
const win = new BrowserWindow({ show: false, width: 1200, height: 1000 });