NAME

Gtk2::Unique - Use single instance applications

SYNOPSIS

        use Gtk2 '-init';
        use Gtk2::Unique;
        
        my $COMMAND_FOO = 1;
        my $COMMAND_BAR = 2;
        
        my $app = Gtk2::UniqueApp->new(
                "org.example.UnitTets", undef,
                foo => $COMMAND_FOO,
                bar => $COMMAND_BAR,
        );
        
        
        if ($app->is_running) {
                # The application is already running, send it a message
                my ($text) = @ARGV ? @ARGV : ("Foo text here");
                $app->send_message_by_name('foo', text => $text);
        }
        else {
                # Create the single application instance and wait for other requests
                my $window = create_application_window($app);
                Gtk2->main();
        }
        
        
        sub create_application_window {
                my ($app) = @_;
                
                my $window = Gtk2::Window->new();
                my $label = Gtk2::Label->new("Waiting for a message");
                $window->add($label);
                $window->set_size_request(480, 120);
                $window->show_all();
                
                $window->signal_connect(delete_event => sub {
                        Gtk2->main_quit();
                        return TRUE;
                });
                
                # Watch the main window and register a handler that will be called each time
                # that there's a new message.
                $app->watch_window($window);
                $app->signal_connect('message-received' => sub {
                        my ($app, $command, $message, $time) = @_;
                        $label->set_text($message->get_text);
                        return 'ok';
                });
        }

DESCRIPTION

Gtk2::Unique is a Perl binding for the C library libunique which provides a way for writing single instance application. If you launch a single instance application twice, the second instance will either just quit or will send a message to the running instance.

For more information about libunique see: http://live.gnome.org/LibUnique.

BUGS & API

This is the first release of the module, some bugs can be expected to be found. Furthermore, the Perl API is not yet frozen, if you would like to suggest some changes please do so as fast as possible.

AUTHORS

Emmanuel Rodriguez <potyl@cpan.org>.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2009-2010 by Emmanuel Rodriguez.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.