Froce browser tab to close as part of wrapup?

[homerhanumat]

Raised by @rpruim: in response to input$done, can we arrange that the browser tab closes?

[rpruim]

I don't know whether this is possible, but there seems to be no reason to keep the dead tab open since it doesn't do anything anymore and can't be refreshed either.

[homerhanumat]

I am looking into a bit of javascript that should do the trick.

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I don't know whether this is possible, but there seems to be no reason to
keep the dead tab open since it doesn't do anything anymore and can't be
refreshed either.

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[homerhanumat]

This is out of our reach for the moment:

rstudio#3

[homerhanumat]

There seems not to be an ideal solution. To get the window to close upon Done, it has to open in a Pane Viewer or Dialog Viewer. Pane Viewer is much too small, of ocurse. But even thought the Dialog Viewer has width and height arguments, it can't go over a certain size. The app really needs the entire computer screen, as in a browser that the user has maximized, and here we cannot close windows on the user.

[rpruim]

Is it at least possible to open the window/tab with a target so that it gets reused rather than spawning a new tab each time the addin is used? (Apologies if it does this already.)

[homerhanumat]

Any locally-run shiny app does the same thing: if you open it up into a browser window, you have to close the window yourself. The next app you run will just open a new window. In the thread referenced above, JJ Allaire and Joe Cheng might be talking about a way around this, but I quite follow what they are saying.