Support controller script

[nwjs]

Support controller script

[rogerwang]

please use the name "node-main" in the manifest for this.

[respectTheCode]

It would be nice to have a javascript entry point that would create the first window. This would allow for things like jade and stylus templates that are rendered at run time.

[zcbenz]

Most template engines can be used at browser side, for Jade have a look at https://github.com/zcbenz/nw-file-explorer/blob/master/node_modules/folder_view.js

For stylus things are the same, compile it at runtime and then manually add compiled CSS into DOM.

[respectTheCode]

I see what your saying. Treat it more like a single page app and then dynamically add everything to the html page. Your making me think a little further outside the box. I have been using jake to compile my jade/stylus and run node-webkit or build an exe.

[rogerwang]

didn't fix fully, reopen.

[yelvert]

How would you open a window from the node-main script?

var gui = require('nw.gui');
var win = gui.Window.open('https://github.com', {
  position: 'center',
  width: 901,
  height: 127
});

The node-main directive in my package.json points at the above file, but crashes with the following error:

module.js:343
    throw err;
          ^
Error: Cannot find module 'nw.gui'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:341:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:280:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:367:17)
    at require (module.js:383:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/yelvert/projects/jengine-builder/index.js:1:69)
    at Module._compile (module.js:459:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:477:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:359:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:315:12)
    at Module.runMain (module.js:500:10)

[yelvert]

I see now why the require('nw.gui') doesn't work, as it only works in the browser because your overwriting the browsers require to do something special for the nw.gui module. My next stop was to try requiring the nw executable that is used to run the app. require('./bin/linux/x86_64/nw'). Doing that produced the following error:

/home/yelvert/projects/jengine-builder/bin/linux/x86_64/nw:1
(function (exports, require, module, __filename, __dirname) { �ELF���
                                                              ^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL
    at Module._compile (module.js:442:25)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:477:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:359:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:315:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:367:17)
    at require (module.js:383:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/yelvert/projects/jengine-builder/index.js:1:86)
    at Module._compile (module.js:459:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:477:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:359:32)

using require('./bin/linux/x86_64/nw.pak') produced almost the same error:

/home/yelvert/projects/jengine-builder/bin/linux/x86_64/nw.pak:1
(function (exports, require, module, __filename, __dirname) { �
                                                              ^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL
    at Module._compile (module.js:442:25)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:477:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:359:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:315:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:367:17)
    at require (module.js:383:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/yelvert/projects/jengine-builder/index.js:1:86)
    at Module._compile (module.js:459:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:477:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:359:32)