Virtual Method

GioAppInfoget_executable

Declaration [src]

const char*
get_executable (
  GAppInfo* appinfo
)

Description [src]

Gets the executable’s name for the installed application.

This is intended to be used for debugging or labelling what program is going to be run. To launch the executable, use g_app_info_launch() and related functions, rather than spawning the return value from this function.

Return value

Type: const char*

A string containing the appinfo’s application binaries name.

The returned data is owned by the instance.

The value is a platform-native string, using the preferred OS encoding on Unix and UTF-8 on Windows.