updates for 1.7.0 release:

- update to electron 6, using latest electron-builder
- update to latest webrecorder
- add new preload.js
- add flag to allow autoplay
- bump version to 1.7.0

app/main.dev.js

@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ app.commandLine.appendSwitch(
   'ppapi-flash-path',
   path.join(projectDir, pluginDir, pluginName)
 );
+app.commandLine.appendSwitch('autoplay-policy', 'no-user-gesture-required');
 
 const findPort = function (rawBuff, source) {
   const buff = rawBuff.toString();
@@ -99,7 +100,7 @@ const findPort = function (rawBuff, source) {
   );
   Object.assign(wrConfig, { host: appUrl });
 
-  const sesh = session.fromPartition('persist:wr', { cache: true });
+  const sesh = session.fromPartition('persist:local-replay', { cache: true });
   const proxy = `localhost:${port}`;
   sesh.setProxy({ proxyRules: proxy }, () => {
     mainWindow.webContents.send('indexing', { host: appUrl, source });

app/package.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "webrecorder-player",
   "productName": "Webrecorder Player",
-  "version": "1.6.5",
+  "version": "1.7.0",
   "description": "Webrecorder Player -- Standalone Web Archive Browser App",
   "main": "./main.prod.js",
   "scripts": {

app/preload.js

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+const { ipcRenderer } = require('electron');
+
+const wr_msg_handler = '___$wr_msg_handler___$$';
+
+class IPCHandler {
+    constructor() {
+      this.on_message = null;
+
+      ipcRenderer.on('wr-message', (event) => {
+        if (this.on_message) {
+          this.on_message(event.data);
+        }
+      });
+    }
+
+    send(msg) {
+      ipcRenderer.sendToHost('wr-message', msg);
+    }
+}
+
+window[wr_msg_handler] = new IPCHandler();
+
+
+document.addEventListener('drop', (evt) => {
+  evt.preventDefault();
+
+  const filename = evt.dataTransfer.files[0].path;
+  const state = {
+    wb_type: 'open',
+    filename
+  };
+
+  ipcRenderer.sendToHost('open', state);
+});
+
+document.addEventListener('dragover', (evt) => {
+  evt.preventDefault();
+  evt.stopPropagation();
+});

package.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "webrecorderplayer",
   "productName": "Webrecorder Player",
-  "version": "1.6.5",
+  "version": "1.7.0",
   "description": "Webrecorder Player -- Standalone Web Archive Browser App",
   "scripts": {
     "build": "concurrently \"npm run build-main\" \"npm run build-frontend\"",
@@ -106,8 +106,8 @@
     "concurrently": "^4.1.0",
     "cross-env": "^5.2.0",
     "dat-node": "^3.5.13",
-    "electron": "5.0.7",
-    "electron-builder": "^20.38.1",
+    "electron": "6.0.0",
+    "electron-builder": "21.2.0",
     "electron-debug": "^2.0.0",
     "electron-devtools-installer": "^2.2.4",
     "electron-publisher-s3": "^20.17.2",