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Open window with predefined size

Does anyone know how to open new with specific size? brackets object does not contain any function to do that - there's only 2 brackets.app and brackets.fs object. Also if you try to open new window with

window.open("http://stackoverflow.com","some title","width=500,height=500");

it won't set the window size.

Any ideas/suggestions?

Solution

  • It looks like a bug in brackets-shell that the size you specify is getting ignored. (It could also be bug in CEF, the underlying Chromium wrapper that brackets-shell uses, but this implies it normally works in vanilla CEF – I'm guessing it's broken by the brackets-shell code that remembers your last window size across launches).

    However, it's not a good idea to open an arbitrary website inside the Brackets shell itself. For one thing, you won't get back/forward buttons, or an address bar, or any of the other standard browser functionality. If you want to open an external website, use NativeApp.openURLInDefaultBrowser() instead (though just like clicking a link in any other app, you won't get to pick the window size). Or if you're building some UI that's more like a Brackets feature (not a remote URL), then it'd be much easier to use in-window popups instead – see the Dialogs API.