Constructor

GtkApplicationnew

since: 3.0

Declaration [src]

GtkApplication*
gtk_application_new (
  const gchar* application_id,
  GApplicationFlags flags
)

Description [src]

Creates a new GtkApplication instance.

When using GtkApplication, it is not necessary to call gtk_init() manually. It is called as soon as the application gets registered as the primary instance.

Concretely, gtk_init() is called in the default handler for the GApplication::startup signal. Therefore, GtkApplication subclasses should chain up in their GApplication::startup handler before using any GTK+ API.

Note that commandline arguments are not passed to gtk_init(). All GTK+ functionality that is available via commandline arguments can also be achieved by setting suitable environment variables such as G_DEBUG, so this should not be a big problem. If you absolutely must support GTK+ commandline arguments, you can explicitly call gtk_init() before creating the application instance.

If non-NULL, the application ID must be valid. See g_application_id_is_valid().

If no application ID is given then some features (most notably application uniqueness) will be disabled. A null application ID is only allowed with GTK+ 3.6 or later.

Available since: 3.0

Parameters

application_id

Type: const gchar*

The application ID.

The argument can be NULL.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.

The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

flags

Type: GApplicationFlags

The application flags.

Return value

Type: GtkApplication

A new GtkApplication instance.

The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.