const path = require("path"); const { app, BrowserWindow } = require("electron"); // makes it so Electron cache doesn't get stored in your system's config // folder, and instead changing it over to using the system's cache // folder instead app.setPath("userData", path.join(app.getPath("cache"), app.name)); // ensures PWD/CWD is the config folder where viper.json is located process.chdir(app.getPath("appData")); const cli = require("./cli"); const mods = require("./modules/mods"); const update = require("./modules/update"); const version = require("./modules/version"); const settings = require("./modules/settings"); // loads `ipcMain` events that dont fit in any of the modules directly require("./modules/ipc"); // required to load launch IPC events require("./modules/launch"); console = require("./modules/console"); // Starts the actual BrowserWindow, which is only run when using the // GUI, for the CLI this function is never called. function start() { let win = new BrowserWindow({ width: 1000, height: 600, title: "Viper", // Hides the window initially, it'll be shown when the DOM is // loaded, as to not cause visual issues. show: false, // In the future we may want to allow the user to resize the window, // as it's fairly responsive, but for now we won't allow that. resizable: false, frame: false, titleBarStyle: "hidden", icon: path.join(__dirname, "assets/icons/512x512.png"), webPreferences: { webviewTag: true, nodeIntegration: true, contextIsolation: false } }) // makes sending things to the renderer a little more readable win.send = (channel, data) => { win.webContents.send(channel, data); }; send = win.send; // give `./win` the main window, `./win()` will then be equal // to `win`, but its accessible anywhere require("./win").set(win); // when --devtools is added it'll open the dev tools if (cli.hasParam("devtools")) { // for some unknown, mysterious reason, the devtools just wont // open if you call this immediately, that's how its worked for // a very long time, and suddenly it stopped working, and this // seemingly was the only fix setTimeout(() => { win.openDevTools(); }, 1) } // we dont need this! win.removeMenu(); // load `src/app/index.html` (the app) win.loadURL("file://" + __dirname + "/app/index.html", { userAgent: "viper/" + version.viper(), }) // print exceptions to terminal, and forward the exception to the // renderer, it'll then show a more user friendly error message process.on("uncaughtException", (err) => { send("unknown-error", err); console.error(err); }) // load list of mods on initial load win.webContents.on("dom-ready", () => { send("mods", mods.list()); }) // start auto-update process if (settings().autoupdate) { if (cli.hasParam("no-vp-updates")) { update.northstar_autoupdate(); } else { update.viper(false); } } else { update.northstar_autoupdate(); } } // starts the GUI or CLI if (cli.hasArgs()) { if (cli.hasParam("update-viper")) { update.viper(true); } else { // start the CLI cli.init(); } } else { // start the window/GUI app.on("ready", () => { start(); }) }