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app
The app
module is responsible for controlling the application's life time.
The example of quitting the whole application when the last window is closed:
var app = require('app');
app.on('window-all-closed', function() {
app.quit();
});
Event: will-finish-launching
Emitted when application has done basic startup. On Windows and Linux it is the
same with ready
event, on OS X this event represents the
applicationWillFinishLaunching
message of NSApplication
, usually you would
setup listeners to open-file
and open-url
events here, and start the crash
reporter and auto updater.
Under most cases you should just do everything in ready
event.
Event: ready
Emitted when atom-shell has done everything initialization.
Event: window-all-closed
Emitted when all windows have been closed.
This event is only emitted when the application is not going to quit. If a
user pressed Cmd + Q
, or the developer called app.quit()
, atom-shell would
first try to close all windows and then emit the will-quit
event, and in
this case the window-all-closed
would not be emitted.
Event: will-quit
event
Event
Emitted when all windows have been closed and the application will quit.
Calling event.preventDefault()
will prevent the default behaviour, which is
terminating the application.
See description of window-all-closed
for the differences between will-quit
and it.
Event: open-file
event
Eventpath
String
Emitted when user wants to open a file with the application, it usually happens when the application is already opened and then OS wants to reuse the application to open file.
You should call event.preventDefault()
if you want to handle this event.
Event: open-url
event
Eventurl
String
Emitted when user wants to open a URL with the application, this URL scheme must be registered to be opened by your application.
You should call event.preventDefault()
if you want to handle this event.
Event: activate-with-no-open-windows
Emitted when the application is activated while there is no opened windows. It usually happens when user has closed all of application's windows and then click on the application's dock icon.
app.quit()
Try to close all windows. If all windows are successfully closed, the
will-quit
event will be emitted and by default the application would be
terminated.
This method guarantees all beforeunload
and unload
handlers are correctly
executed. It is possible that a window cancels the quitting by returning
false
in beforeunload
handler.
app.terminate()
Quit the application directly, it will not try to close all windows so cleanup code will not run.
app.getVersion()
Returns the version of loaded application, if no version is found in
application's package.json
, the version of current bundle or executable would
be returned.
app.getName()
Returns current application's name, the name in package.json
would be
used.
Usually the name
field of package.json
is a short lowercased name, according
to the spec of npm modules. So usually you should also specify a productName
field, which is your application's full capitalized name, and it will be
preferred over name
by atom-shell.
app.commandLine.appendSwitch(switch, [value])
Append a switch [with optional value] to Chromium's command line.
Note: This will not affect process.argv
, and is mainly used by developers
to control some low-level Chromium behaviors.
app.commandLine.appendArgument(value)
Append an argument to Chromium's command line. The argument will quoted properly.
Note: This will not affect process.argv
.
app.dock.bounce([type])
type
String - Can becritical
orinformational
, the default isinformational
When critical
is passed, the dock icon will bounce until either the
application becomes active or the request is canceled.
When informational
is passed, the dock icon will bounce for one second. The
request, though, remains active until either the application becomes active or
the request is canceled.
An ID representing the request would be returned.
Note: This API is only available on Mac.
app.dock.cancelBounce(id)
id
Integer
Cancel the bounce of id
.
Note: This API is only available on Mac.
app.dock.setBadge(text)
text
String
Sets the string to be displayed in the dock’s badging area.
Note: This API is only available on Mac.
app.dock.getBadge()
Returns the badge string of the dock.
Note: This API is only available on Mac.
app.dock.hide()
Hides the dock icon.
Note: This API is only available on Mac.
app.dock.show()
Shows the dock icon.
Note: This API is only available on Mac.