NGDesktop Utils (ref)

(part of package 'NGDesktop Utils')

You can access it in code via: plugins.ngdesktoputils

API

executeCommand(program,args)

Executes a command async, the server side call will not block on this call.

Parameters:

program string args object[]

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executeCommandSync(program,args)

This executes a command and returns the result of the stdout This will also call reject when a error happens so the call will error out. (will not return correct) Try to use the async executeCommand so nothing will be blocking.

Parameters:

program string args object[]

Returns: string

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exit()

This will close the NGDesktop main application. Be sure you will call this and after this call application.exit() to close also the client directly itself.

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getClipboardContent()

Get clipboard text.

Returns: string

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getDefaultPrinter()

Returns default printer on local machine.

Returns: printer

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getPrinters()

Returns installed printers on local machine.

Returns: printer[]

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getSystemInformation()

Retrieve information from the ngdesktop client

@return

an object containing the client's system information:

    ngDesktopVersion    - string: ngdesktop version
    osPlatform          - string: can be 'darwin', 'linux', 'freebsd', 'openbsd' and 'win32'
    osRelease           - string: kernel release number
    osTotalMem          - long: total system's memory
    osFreeMem           - long: total available memory

Returns: sysinfo

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isNGDesktop()

Whether application is running as NGDesktop.

Returns: boolean

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printPDF(path,options )

Prints a pdf document specified by path. Optionally, specify printer or unix print options (lp command) or windows print options see: https://github.com/Servoy/pdf-to-printer

Parameters:

path string options printoptions (optional)

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setClipboardContent(text)

Set clipboard text.

@param {string} text to be set in clipboard

Parameters:

text string

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showExternal(url)

Manage URLs using their default applications

@param {String} url

Parameters:

url string

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Types

printer

scripting type: CustomType<ngdesktoputils.printer>

• deviceId

  • Type: string

• name

  • Type: string

• paperSizes

  • Type: string[]

printoptions

scripting type: CustomType<ngdesktoputils.printoptions>

• printer

  • Type: string

• unix

  • Type: string[]

• win32

  • Type: string[]

sysinfo

scripting type: CustomType<ngdesktoputils.sysinfo>

• electronVersion

  • Type: string

• ngDesktopVersion

  • Type: string

• osFreeMem

  • Type: long

• osPlatform

  • Type: string

• osRelease

  • Type: string

• osTotalMem

  • Type: long

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