About window not opening after pack

[sgermain06]

I don't know if anyone else has this issue, but I built an app that lives in the system tray, that has no frame, no menu or anything. Using IPC, I'm able to open the about window by sending a message from the renderer to the main process, but when I pack up the app to distribute it, it won't open.

I tried opening the window from the renderer process, but I can't get the logo to show up or read the package.json for the version of everything.

[talhaHavadar]

Do you use any error log mechanism for production mode? If you do, it is possible that the error can be seen from that log file.

[rhysd]

I'm not sure because I'm not using bundler for Electron app usually. But I guess __dirname does not work when packing the source.

It is used at default value of base_path.

https://github.com/rhysd/electron-about-window/blob/master/src/index.ts#L114

Can you try to set proper base path following your app's directory structure?

[sgermain06]

Let me try, will let you know.

[pyphilia]

I indeed set the base_path attribute and it now opens.