[ PB6.11 ] Adding WebGadget and WebViewGadget in the samine program causes the 2nd gadget to freeze.

[skinkairewalker]

Worked in PureBasic 6.10 LTS

If you include both a WebGadget and WebViewGadget the program will freeze when initializing the second Gadget; see below.

NOTE: Two WebGadget's or two WebViewGadget's work without an issue;

Does Not Work:

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If OpenWindow(0, 100, 100, 800, 400, "Hello", #PB_Window_SystemMenu)
  WebGadget(0, 0, 0, 400, 400, "https://www.purebasic.com", #PB_Web_Edge)
  WebViewGadget(1, 400, 0, 400, 400)
  SetGadgetText(1, "file://" + #PB_Compiler_Home + "examples/sources/Data/WebView/webview.html")
 
  Repeat
    Event = WaitWindowEvent()
  Until Event = #PB_Event_CloseWindow
EndIf

Does Work:

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If OpenWindow(0, 100, 100, 800, 400, "Hello", #PB_Window_SystemMenu)
  WebGadget(0, 0, 0, 400, 400, "https://www.purebasic.com", #PB_Web_Edge)
  WebGadget(1, 400, 0, 400, 400, "", #PB_Web_Edge)
  SetGadgetText(1, "file://" + #PB_Compiler_Home + "examples/sources/Data/WebView/webview.html")
 
  Repeat
    Event = WaitWindowEvent()
  Until Event = #PB_Event_CloseWindow
EndIf

Does Work:

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If OpenWindow(0, 100, 100, 800, 400, "Hello", #PB_Window_SystemMenu)
  WebViewGadget(0, 0, 0, 400, 400)
  WebViewGadget(1, 400, 0, 400, 400)
  SetGadgetText(0, "https://www.purebasic.com")
  SetGadgetText(1, "file://" + #PB_Compiler_Home + "examples/sources/Data/WebView/webview.html")
 
  Repeat
    Event = WaitWindowEvent()
  Until Event = #PB_Event_CloseWindow
EndIf

[zikitrake]

But this works fine

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If OpenWindow(0, 100, 100, 800, 400, "Hello", #PB_Window_SystemMenu)
  
  WebViewGadget(0, 400, 0, 400, 400)
  SetGadgetText(0, "file://" + #PB_Compiler_Home + "examples/sources/Data/WebView/webview.html")
  WebGadget(1, 0, 0, 400, 400, "https://www.purebasic.com", #PB_Web_Edge)
 
  Repeat
    Event = WaitWindowEvent()
  Until Event = #PB_Event_CloseWindow
EndIf

[breeze4me]

In 6.11 beta 3, an internal command was added to change the cache folder of the WebView2 control using an environment variable(https://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewto ... 78#p621678 , Windows: [Done] WebView Gadget leaves files on hard drive), and there seems to be a conflict with this.
If you find and remove the "WEBVIEW2_ADDITIONAL_BROWSER_ARGUMENTS" string from the compiled executable, it will run properly. This string is in Unicode format.

[Fred]

So we can't share the cache between instances ? That's annoying.

[breeze4me]

After investigating, it seems that the problem is caused by setting the environment variable value only in WebViewGadget and not in WebGadget.
Setting the value before the WebGadget as shown below solves the problem.

However, Paul's bug report is for the user data folder, so it can't be set in an environment variable.
A folder with the same name as the executable that is created in the Users/AppData/Roaming folder will not be removed by changing the cache folder.
You must change the userDataFolder string in the following two functions to prevent the new folder from being created in the Users/AppData/Roaming folder.

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CreateWebViewEnvironmentWithOptionsInternal(bool checkRunningInstance, int runtimeType, PCWSTR userDataFolder, IUnknown * environmentOptions, ICoreWebView2CreateCoreWebView2EnvironmentCompletedHandler * webViewEnvironmentCreatedHandler)
CreateCoreWebView2EnvironmentWithOptions(PCWSTR browserExecutableFolder, PCWSTR userDataFolder, ICoreWebView2EnvironmentOptions * environmentOptions, ICoreWebView2CreateCoreWebView2EnvironmentCompletedHandler * environmentCreatedHandler)

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SetEnvironmentVariable("WEBVIEW2_ADDITIONAL_BROWSER_ARGUMENTS", ~"--disk-cache-dir=\"" + GetTemporaryDirectory() + ~"\\WebView2_Cache\"")

; --disk-cache-dir="C:\temp\\WebView2_Cache"

If OpenWindow(0, 100, 100, 800, 400, "Hello", #PB_Window_SystemMenu)
  
  WebGadget(0, 0, 0, 400, 400, "https://www.purebasic.com", #PB_Web_Edge)
  
  WebViewGadget(1, 400, 0, 400, 400)
  SetGadgetText(1, "file://" + #PB_Compiler_Home + "examples/sources/Data/WebView/webview.html")
  
  Repeat
    Event = WaitWindowEvent()
  Until Event = #PB_Event_CloseWindow
EndIf