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Online/Offline Event Detection
Online and offline event detection can be implemented in the renderer process using standard HTML5 APIs, as shown in the following example.
main.js
var app = require('app');
var BrowserWindow = require('browser-window');
var onlineStatusWindow;
app.on('ready', function() {
onlineStatusWindow = new BrowserWindow({ width: 0, height: 0, show: false });
onlineStatusWindow.loadUrl('file://' + path.join(__dirname, '/online-status.html'));
});
online-status.html
<html>
<body>
<script>
var alertOnlineStatus = function() {
window.alert(navigator.onLine ? 'online' : 'offline');
};
window.addEventListener('online', alertOnlineStatus);
window.addEventListener('offline', alertOnlineStatus);
alertOnlineStatus();
</script>
</body>
</html>
There may be instances where one wants to respond to these events in the browser process as well. The browser process however does not have a "navigator" object and thus cannot detect these events directly. Using Atom-shell's inter-process communication utilities, the events can be forwarded to the browser process and handled as needed, as shown in the following example.
main.js
var app = require('app');
var ipc = require('ipc');
var BrowserWindow = require('browser-window');
var onlineStatusWindow;
app.on('ready', function() {
onlineStatusWindow = new BrowserWindow({ width: 0, height: 0, show: false });
onlineStatusWindow.loadUrl('file://' + path.join(__dirname, '/online-status.html'));
});
ipc.on('onlineStatusMessage', function(event, status) {
console.log(status);
});
online-status.html
<html>
<body>
<script>
var ipc = require('ipc');
var updateOnlineStatus = function() {
ipc.send('onlineStatusMessage', navigator.onLine ? 'online' : 'offline');
};
window.addEventListener('online', updateOnlineStatus);
window.addEventListener('offline', updateOnlineStatus);
updateOnlineStatus();
</script>
</body>
</html>