For Electron applications you can specify the size and positioning of BrowserWindow instances. No API could be used to store and retrieve those configuration values across an application restart. electron-memento will change this. electron-memento provides a simple set of APIs that allows you to store and load the dimension and the position of your application's main window.

electron-memento is licensed under MIT.

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Install

npm install electron-memento --save

Usage

electron-memento is meant to be used from within the main process of an Electron app.

const { app, BrowserWindow } = require('electron');
const Memento = require('electron-memento');

let mainWindow;

function createWindow() {
  const bounds = Memento.read();
  const mainWindowConfig = {
    width: bounds.width,
    height: bounds.height,
    x: bounds.x,
    y: bounds.y,
    title: 'Memento Sample'
  };
  const mainWindowUrl = 'some-url.html';

  mainWindow = new BrowserWindow(mainWindowConfig);
  Memento.infect(mainWindow);
  mainWindow.loadURL(mainWindowUrl);
  mainWindow.webContents.openDevTools();

  mainWindow.on('closed', () => {
    mainWindow = null;
  });
}
 // ...

API

read

The read method will read the dimension and position from the configuration file. If no configuration exists, either internal defaults or default values provided by the caller will be returned.

read(defaultDimension?: { width: number, height: number }, defaultPosition?: { x: number, y: number }): Rectangle Type: Rectangle

Internal Defaults

If you don't specify default values, the window will be centered and the dimension will be set to 1000x700 pixels

writePosition

You can instruct electron-memento explicitly to store the position of the current window by calling the writePosition method. It will store the position of mainApplicationWindow (Electron.BrowserWindow).

writePosition(mainApplicationWindow: BrowserWindow): void

writeDimension

You can instruct electron-memento explicitly to store the dimension of the current window by calling the writeDimension method. It will store the dimension of mainApplicationWindow (Electron.BrowserWindow).

writeDimension(mainApplicationWindow: BrowserWindow): void

infect

The infect method will register writePosition and writeDimension to the corresponding events of 'mainApplicationWindow' (move and resize). Once infected, electron-memento will always be invoked to store both, dimension and position of mainApplicationWindow. Both listeners are unregistered using explicit de-registration in mainApplicationWindow.on('close').

infect(mainApplicationWindow: BrowserWindow): void

Credits

The project has been built using electron-store from Sindre Sorhus.

Other libraries

• ngx-electron

Copyright

© Thorsten Hans