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Posted: **Tue Feb 06, 2018 8:40 pm**

So I brought this up before, and I brought it up with the plug-in developer (who said it's not his bug). When I load this plug-in via JavaScript in a Browser Widget in LC9dp11 it works as long as I run LC in 32bit mode, if I try to load it in 64bit mode it crashes the WebKitPluginHost.app that resides inside the WebKitLegacy.framework that is inside the WebKit.framework. I can't find the info but my guess is this WebKitLegacy.framework is for legacy as in 32bit? I also see references to Carbon (aka OLD) things in the crashlog. Could it be that the WebKit view generated by the BrowserWidget is linking to some 32 bit stuffs in a FrameWork and then trying to load 64 bit stuff too and ...bam..it gets all out of whack?

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Process:               WebKitPluginHost [2097]
Path:                  /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/WebKitLegacy.framework/Versions/A/WebKitPluginHost.app/Contents/MacOS/WebKitPluginHost
Identifier:            com.apple.WebKit.PluginHost
Version:               11601 (11601.7.1)
Build Info:            WebKitPluginHost-7601007001000000~1
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        WebKitPluginAgent [1992]
Responsible:           WebKitPluginHost [2097]
User ID:               501

Date/Time:             2018-02-06 14:26:04.016 -0500
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.11.6 (15G1611)
Report Version:        11
Anonymous UUID:        
Sleep/Wake UUID:       
Time Awake Since Boot: 16000 seconds
Time Since Wake:       12000 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread:        0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type:        EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes:       KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

VM Regions Near 0:
--> 
    __TEXT                 0000000103326000-0000000103342000 [  112K] r-x/rwx SM=COW  /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/WebKitLegacy.framework/Versions/A/WebKitPluginHost.app/Contents/MacOS/WebKitPluginHost

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   ???                           	000000000000000000 0 + 0
1   net.jazz-soft.Jazz-Plugin     	0x00000001060bb352 NPP_New + 236
2   com.apple.WebKit.PluginHost   	0x000000010332f22a 0x103326000 + 37418
3   com.apple.WebKit.PluginHost   	0x000000010332c7bc 0x103326000 + 26556
4   com.apple.WebKit.PluginHost   	0x000000010332792e 0x103326000 + 6446
5   com.apple.CoreFoundation      	0x00007fff921b140c __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_BLOCK__ + 12
6   com.apple.CoreFoundation      	0x00007fff92190c55 __CFRunLoopDoBlocks + 341
7   com.apple.CoreFoundation      	0x00007fff9219041e __CFRunLoopRun + 910
8   com.apple.CoreFoundation      	0x00007fff9218fe28 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 296
9   com.apple.HIToolbox           	0x00007fff82854935 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 235
10  com.apple.HIToolbox           	0x00007fff8285476f ReceiveNextEventCommon + 432
11  com.apple.HIToolbox           	0x00007fff828545af _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter + 71
12  com.apple.AppKit              	0x00007fff9354bdf6 _DPSNextEvent + 1067
13  com.apple.AppKit              	0x00007fff9354b226 -[NSApplication _nextEventMatchingEventMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 454
14  com.apple.AppKit              	0x00007fff9353fd80 -[NSApplication run] + 682
15  com.apple.WebKit.PluginHost   	0x000000010332a4c1 0x103326000 + 17601
16  libdyld.dylib                 	0x00007fff8ba7c5ad start + 1

Posted: **Tue Feb 06, 2018 8:45 pm**

I'm having similar problems as this guy here:
http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=19299
I have JavaScripts that work when loaded from local directory in any of the 3 big browsers (completely from disk/no internet) but when I load them in a browser widget they break, even if I merge (browserfiy) all linked scripts into one html.

Maybe there's a problem somewhere in the code for MCBrowserFactoryGet or related? Preferences set a certain way when creating the WKWebView?

Posted: **Fri Feb 09, 2018 11:58 pm**

Probably the bottom line is this: I shouldn't be relying on a WebPlug-In for anything, since Web Plug-ins seem to be in a perpetual state of being in various stages of being "phased out", smh. and many uses are moving to HTML5.

Still, I'm thinking I might be trying out building a helper app that passes the JavaScripts to a WebKit WebScriptObject and seeing if it behaves and loads the 64-bit plugin without crashing there (versus LC BrowserWidget). I'm in the processes of trying to learn AppleScriptObjC (I know, late to the party...and it seems the AppleScript party is being abandonned by it's host) / Cocoa-Scripting in an effort to understand Objective-C and general OOP better so I can wrap it in LiveCode builder and forget most of it later.

Basically, what I'm really kind of after is using LC as a front end for JavaScript libraries, which works great in a lot of circumstances. But if you're on macOS the web view that the Browser Widget creates is (now) WebKit (versus older Mac versions that used Chrome CEF, or CEF on Linux/Win), the result is not having to bundle a huge CEF Framework in your standalone mac.app, it would be nice to be able to choose which framework to use, embedding the 80mb+ CEF framework or just use the 0mb framework that shipped with the OS (Safari/WebKit), and/or be able to take advantage of the the flags while initiating it, to enabling certain features like access to local files. What I'm thinking is LiveCode could act as a kind of GUI kit for the $h1tT...er... thousands of Node.js modules that are out there.

Posted: **Sun Feb 11, 2018 1:10 am**

I'm going off of my original topic now but...

Maybe someone could add a way to change certain parameters used to initialize the WKWebView to the Browser Widget LCB or underlying LC extension?

I think these may be related to the problems I'm having with loading media and related JavaScripts into a BrowserWidget:
https://developer.apple.com/documentati ... figuration
Is the "file://" url type handled natively?
https://developer.apple.com/documentati ... surlscheme

Posted: **Sun Feb 11, 2018 1:45 am**

I reverted this one test back to LiveCode 7.1.4 and used revBrowserOpenCEF (the Chrome Framework that is no longer available in newer Mac builds of LC) and IT WORKS! I suspect that other Node.js-like things might work this way as well. It would be really nice to have a choice of Web Engines (WebKit or CEF). In most situations the WebKit view is perfectly adequate and I wouldn't want to embed the 75mb CEF Framework into a standalone if I didn't have to, but for this kind of "server side" JavaScript fiddling it seems it can make all the difference in wether something works or not.

BTW, the Atom code/text editor I've been using for LCB, was built with ChromeCEF, Node.js modules, and the Electron JS runtime. It sure would be nice to leverage all of those Node.js modules with a great UI front end / script like LiveCode!

Posted: **Sun Feb 11, 2018 7:56 pm**

Just to attempt a clarification, and in case someone comes to this thread looking for info on actually using Node.js from LiveCode (which is perfectly doable via shell() or open process, then piping in commands to stdin), what I'm talking about here is slightly different. What I'm getting at is using JavaScripts designed to run in a runtime like Node.js (or similar "server-side" JS runtime, like ElectronJS) but using LiveCode's BrowserWidget (on a Mac that currently means a WKWebview based on Apple's Safari) as the runtime engine, without the need to for a Node installation on the machine running the app.

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