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electron OSX menu that enables clipboard copy and paste
//this is a modified electron-forge default main.js file
import { app, BrowserWindow, ipcMain, shell, protocol, dialog, session, clipboard, Menu } from 'electron';
const metastream = require('metastream');
// Keep a global reference of the window object, if you don't, the window will
// be closed automatically when the JavaScript object is garbage collected.
let mainWindow;
process.on('uncaughtException', (err) => { console.error(err); });
const createWindow = () => {
//console.log(app.getPath('userData'));
// Create the browser window.
mainWindow = new BrowserWindow({ "fullscreen":true });
// and load the index.html of the app.
mainWindow.loadURL(`file://${__dirname}/index.html`);
// Open the DevTools.
mainWindow.webContents.openDevTools();
// Emitted when the window is closed.
mainWindow.on('closed', () => {
// Dereference the window object, usually you would store windows
// in an array if your app supports multi windows, this is the time
// when you should delete the corresponding element.
mainWindow = null;
});
// Create the Application's main menu
var arrMenuItems = [{
label: "Application",
submenu: [
{ label: "About Application", selector: "orderFrontStandardAboutPanel:" },
{ type: "separator" },
{ label: "Quit", accelerator: "Command+Q", click: function() { app.quit(); }}
]}, {
label: "Edit",
submenu: [
{ label: "Undo", accelerator: "CmdOrCtrl+Z", selector: "undo:" },
{ label: "Redo", accelerator: "Shift+CmdOrCtrl+Z", selector: "redo:" },
{ type: "separator" },
{ label: "Cut", accelerator: "CmdOrCtrl+X", selector: "cut:" },
{ label: "Copy", accelerator: "CmdOrCtrl+C", selector: "copy:" },
{ label: "Paste", accelerator: "CmdOrCtrl+V", selector: "paste:" },
{ label: "Select All", accelerator: "CmdOrCtrl+A", selector: "selectAll:" }
]}
];
Menu.setApplicationMenu(Menu.buildFromTemplate(arrMenuItems));
};
// This method will be called when Electron has finished
// initialization and is ready to create browser windows.
// Some APIs can only be used after this event occurs.
app.on('ready', createWindow);
// Quit when all windows are closed.
app.on('window-all-closed', () => {
// On OS X it is common for applications and their menu bar
// to stay active until the user quits explicitly with Cmd + Q
if (process.platform !== 'darwin') {
app.quit();
}
});
app.on('activate', () => {
// On OS X it's common to re-create a window in the app when the
// dock icon is clicked and there are no other windows open.
if (mainWindow === null) {
createWindow();
}
});
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