Method
GioApplicationregister
since: 2.28
Declaration
gboolean
g_application_register (
GApplication* application,
GCancellable* cancellable,
GError** error
)
Description
Attempts registration of the application.
This is the point at which the application discovers if it is the primary instance or merely acting as a remote for an already-existing primary instance. This is implemented by attempting to acquire the application identifier as a unique bus name on the session bus using GDBus.
If there is no application ID or if G_APPLICATION_NON_UNIQUE was
given, then this process will always become the primary instance.
Due to the internal architecture of GDBus, method calls can be dispatched at any time (even if a main loop is not running). For this reason, you must ensure that any object paths that you wish to register are registered before calling this function.
If the application has already been registered then TRUE is
returned with no work performed.
The GApplication::startup signal is emitted if registration succeeds
and application is the primary instance (including the non-unique case).
In the event of an error (such as cancellable being cancelled, or a
failure to connect to the session bus), FALSE is returned and error
is set appropriately.
Note: the return value of this function is not an indicator that this
instance is or is not the primary instance of the application. See
g_application_get_is_remote() for that.
Available since: 2.28
Parameters
cancellable-
Type:
GCancellableA
GCancellable, orNULL.The argument can be NULL.The data is owned by the caller of the function. error-
Type:
GError **The return location for a recoverable error.
The argument can be NULL.If the return location is not NULL, then you must initialize it to aNULLGError*.The argument will left initialized to NULLby the method if there are no errors.In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated GError; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.