Merge pull request #7294 from electron/mutate-remote-array-docs

Mention mutating remote arrays and buffers
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Cheng Zhao 2016-09-22 14:13:49 +09:00 committed by GitHub
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@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ let win = new BrowserWindow({width: 800, height: 600})
win.loadURL('https://github.com')
```
**Note:** for the reverse (access the renderer process from the main process),
**Note:** For the reverse (access the renderer process from the main process),
you can use [webContents.executeJavascript](web-contents.md#webcontentsexecutejavascriptcode-usergesture-callback).
## Remote Objects
@ -36,8 +36,12 @@ process. Instead, it created a `BrowserWindow` object in the main process and
returned the corresponding remote object in the renderer process, namely the
`win` object.
Please note that only [enumerable properties](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Enumerability_and_ownership_of_properties) which are present when the remote object is first referenced are
accessible via remote.
**Note:** Only [enumerable properties][enumerable-properties] which are present
when the remote object is first referenced are accessible via remote.
**Note:** Arrays and Buffers are copied over IPC when accessed via the `remote`
module. Modifying them in the renderer process does not modify them in the main
process and vice versa.
## Lifetime of Remote Objects
@ -160,3 +164,4 @@ The `process` object in the main process. This is the same as
`remote.getGlobal('process')` but is cached.
[rmi]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_remote_method_invocation
[enumerable-properties]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Enumerability_and_ownership_of_properties