Embedded WebView2 engine for web links (Windows)
Web links previously launched a separate Chrome/Edge kiosk process, which
caused the whole class of bugs in the tracker: the browser opening behind the
player, being handed off to an already-running instance and exiting instantly,
fighting for foreground/z-order, and leaking msedge.exe/chrome.exe processes
that were never closed.
WebView2 renders as a CHILD HWND of Kivy's own SDL window instead, so there is
no separate top-level browser to open behind the player, nothing to hand the
URL off to, no z-order contest, and no leaked browser process.
Windows/webview2_browser.py
- Environment -> controller -> navigate, driven through pythonnet.
- Async .NET Tasks are polled from Kivy's Clock. Calling GetAwaiter()
.GetResult() would deadlock: the continuation needs the same thread's
message pump.
- The controller is a .NET IntPtr, not a Python int (CreateAsync overloads
do not match otherwise).
- NavigationCompleted is tracked so a page that never loads can be told
apart from one that did. This matters on a closed network: an unreachable
host paints a Chromium error page, and without this the player would show
a blank/error screen for the item's whole slot instead of skipping it.
- is_alive() reports True while starting up. Start-up is async, so a
controller that does not exist yet is not a dead browser; treating it as
one made the first web link after a cold start be skipped instantly.
Windows/webview2_runtime.py
- Detects the Runtime (registry pv value, SDK probe as fallback) and
installs it silently when missing, unelevated, which produces a per-user
install and therefore never raises a UAC prompt on the signage display.
- Success is decided by RE-READING the installed version, not by the
installer exit code: Edge Update returns a non-zero HRESULT
(-2147219416) when the Runtime is already current, which is not a failure.
- On a closed network the online bootstrapper can never succeed, so it fails
fast with an actionable message instead of hanging for the full timeout.
- Failed attempts are cooldown-gated so a broken machine does not re-run an
installer on every start.
Offline hardening
- Browser arguments disable component updates, field trials, safe-browsing
list fetches, translate and other internet chatter. On an isolated LAN
each of those would otherwise have to time out, costing start-up latency.
Pages on the local server are unaffected.
Engine order (best first): WebView2 -> CEF -> Chrome/Edge subprocess. CEF has
no wheels past Python 3.9 so it is dormant on this build; the subprocess engine
remains only as a last resort.
Also fixes the reason the Windows adapters were never used at all:
SignagePlayer.__init__ assigned self.weblink_adapter_factory = None, which
shadowed the CLASS attribute that run_win.py injects. play_weblink() therefore
fell back to the generic adapter, whose find_browser() uses shutil.which() and
finds nothing on Windows because Chrome/Edge are not on PATH. The instance
attribute is now only set when the class attribute is absent.
Verified: windows/test_webview2_embed.py, test_webview2_navigation.py and
test_webview2_offline.py all pass (a locally served page renders with all
internet traffic disabled), and the packaged exe reports
"weblink_launch engine=webview2-embedded" -> "weblink_launched" on every cycle
with no leaked browser processes.
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"""Standalone test for windows/webview2_runtime.py — no Kivy, no player.
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Checks the runtime-detection logic and (optionally) a real silent install.
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Run: windows\\venv\\Scripts\\python.exe windows\\test_webview2_runtime.py
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windows\\venv\\Scripts\\python.exe windows\\test_webview2_runtime.py --install
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Without --install this is read-only: it reports the detected version and which
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installer would be used. With --install it forces the installer path to run
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(useful on a machine that genuinely lacks the Runtime).
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Exit code 0 = checks passed.
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"""
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import os
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import sys
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from pathlib import Path
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sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent))
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import webview2_runtime as w # noqa: E402
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def main():
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force_install = '--install' in sys.argv
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print('=' * 68)
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print(' WebView2 Runtime detection test')
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print('=' * 68)
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version = w.get_runtime_version()
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installed = w.is_runtime_installed()
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print(f'registry/SDK version : {version or "(none)"}')
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print(f'is_runtime_installed : {installed}')
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installer, kind = w.find_installer()
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print(f'installer : {installer}')
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print(f'installer kind : {kind}')
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print(f'describe() : {w.describe()}')
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ok = True
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# Version parsing must be comparable and tolerant of junk.
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cases = {
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'152.0.4191.66': (152, 0, 4191, 66),
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'1.2': (1, 2, 0, 0),
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'': (0, 0, 0, 0),
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None: (0, 0, 0, 0),
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}
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for raw, expected in cases.items():
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got = w._parse_version(raw)
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flag = 'ok' if got == expected else 'FAIL'
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if got != expected:
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ok = False
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print(f' parse({raw!r:16}) -> {got} [{flag}]')
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# An installer must be discoverable: without one, a Runtime-less machine
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# has no way to recover.
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if installer is None:
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print('\nWARNING: no installer found — a machine without the Runtime '
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'cannot self-heal.')
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print('Run: .\\webview2_runtime\\download_runtime_installers.ps1')
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else:
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sig_status = 'n/a'
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try:
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import subprocess
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out = subprocess.run(
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['powershell', '-NoProfile', '-Command',
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f'(Get-AuthenticodeSignature -LiteralPath "{installer}").Status'],
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capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=60,
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)
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sig_status = (out.stdout or '').strip() or 'unknown'
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except Exception as exc:
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sig_status = f'check failed: {exc}'
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print(f'signature : {sig_status}')
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if force_install:
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print('\n--install given: running the silent installer path...')
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result = w.ensure_runtime(timeout=600)
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print(f'ensure_runtime() -> {result}')
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if not result.get('installed'):
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ok = False
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else:
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# Read-only path: ensure_runtime must be a no-op that reports presence.
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result = w.ensure_runtime(timeout=60)
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print(f'\nensure_runtime() (read-only) -> {result}')
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if installed and not result.get('installed'):
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print('FAIL: Runtime present but ensure_runtime() disagreed')
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ok = False
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if result.get('action') not in ('already-present', 'installer-missing',
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'skipped-recent-failure',
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'installed-standalone',
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'installed-bootstrapper',
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'attempted-standalone',
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'attempted-bootstrapper'):
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print(f'FAIL: unexpected action {result.get("action")!r}')
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ok = False
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print('=' * 68)
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print(' RESULT:', 'PASS' if ok else 'FAIL')
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print('=' * 68)
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return 0 if ok else 1
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if __name__ == '__main__':
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sys.exit(main())
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