Refreshing the web browser

[White-Rabbit-Scientific]

I set up a python webserver on http://localhost:8080 which is serving content.

I used the Toga WebView widget and pointed it at localhost.

This works beautifully on Linux (have not tested on other platforms yet).

I cannot seem to get the browser to refresh using either refresh_sublayouts() or refresh(), but the third option shown below did work.

Code snippet:

self.parent.refresh_sublayouts()
self.parent.children[3].parent.refresh()
self.parent.children[3].url = "http://localhost:8080"

Perhaps the refresh() options are not implemented on Linux?

[mhsmith]

As it says in the documentation, "refresh" in these methods refers to Toga's own layout and appearance. We should probably have a separate method to do a refresh of the web page itself, because requiring the user to reassign the url to the same value isn't intuitive.

[eddyizm]

Found this while searching for a solution. the page itself does not respond to ctrl+R for a fresh _ i was thinking i may be able to capture that shortcut and map it to toga.
maybe a page_reload() or webpage_refresh() method. to distinguish the webview.

[freakboy3742]

I don't think there's a separate method for this; page_reload() is really not much more than self.page.url = self.page.url - that is, explicitly re-setting the URL on the page to what it already is.