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Cant get Toolbar to show up in Node Webkit

I have what should hopefully be a simple question. According to the documentation, and tutorials that Im looking at, a basic nw.js app should have a toolbar at the top as such. However, when I run my 'Hello World' program I have no such toolbar, it looks like this:

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I also tried to explicitly turn on the toolbar in the package.json (although it sounds like it should be enabled by default), like this:

{
  "main": "index.html",
  "name": "example",
  "window": {
    "toolbar": true,
    "width": 800
  }
}

But I still get no toolbar. What am I missing?

my version of nw.js is 0.13.0 (windows 64bit)

Solution

  • This option was "deprecated" in 0.13:

    toolbar is deprecated and it’s always false. The traditional toolbar will NOT be supported including the reload buttons, location bar and DevTools buttons. As a workaround, you can open / close DevTools with F12 (Windows & Linux) or ⌘+⌥+i (Mac). And use win.reload() and win.reloadDev() to simulate the reload buttons.

    See: http://docs.nwjs.io/en/v0.13.0-rc2/For%20Users/Migration/From%200.12%20to%200.13/

    Although the language used is 'deprecated' the option is apparently unsupported entirely. See: https://github.com/nwjs/nw.js/issues/4274