Tutorial: application.addEventListener

application.addEventListener

Registers an event listener on the specified event. Supported application event types are:

  • closed
  • connected
  • crashed
  • initialized
  • manifest-changed
  • not-responding
  • out-of-memory
  • responding
  • run-requested
  • started
  • tray-icon-clicked
  • window-alert-requested
  • window-auth-requested
  • window-blurred
  • window-closed
  • window-crashed
  • window-created
  • window-end-load
  • window-focused
  • window-navigation-rejected
  • window-not-responding
  • window-out-of-memory
  • window-reloaded
  • window-responding
  • window-show-requested
  • window-start-load

Example

app.addEventListener("closed", function (event) {
    console.log("The application has closed");
}, function () {
    console.log("The registration was successful");
},function (reason) {
    console.log("failure: " + reason);
});

Application Events

closed

Generated when an application is closed.

//This response has the following shape:
{
    topic: "application",
    type: "closed",
    uuid: "454C7F31-A915-4EA2-83F2-CFA655453C52" // the UUID of the application
}

connected

Generated when an application has authenticated and is connected.

//This response has the following shape:
{
    topic: "application",
    type: "connected",
    uuid: "454C7F31-A915-4EA2-83F2-CFA655453C52" // the UUID of the application
}

crashed

Generated when an application has crashed.

//This response has the following shape:
{
    topic: "application",
    type: "crashed",
    uuid: "454C7F31-A915-4EA2-83F2-CFA655453C52" // the UUID of the application
}

initialized

Generated when an application has initialized.

//This response has the following shape:
{
    topic: "application",
    type: "initialized",
    uuid: "454C7F31-A915-4EA2-83F2-CFA655453C52" // the UUID of the application
}

manifest-changed

Generated when the RVM notifies an application that the manifest has changed.

//This response has the following shape:
{
    topic: "application",
    type: "manifest-changed",
    uuid: "454C7F31-A915-4EA2-83F2-CFA655453C52" // the UUID of the application
}

not-responding

Generated when an application is not responding.

//This response has the following shape:
{
    topic: "application",
    type: "not-responding",
    uuid: "454C7F31-A915-4EA2-83F2-CFA655453C52" // the UUID of the application
}

out-of-memory

Generated when an application is out of memory.

//This response has the following shape:
{
    topic: "application",
    type: "out-of-memory",
    uuid: "454C7F31-A915-4EA2-83F2-CFA655453C52" // the UUID of the application
}

responding

Generated when an application is responding.

//This response has the following shape:
{
    topic: "application",
    type: "responding",
    uuid: "454C7F31-A915-4EA2-83F2-CFA655453C52" // the UUID of the application
}

run-requested

Generated when Application.run() is called for an already running application.

//This response has the following shape:
{
    topic: "application",
    type: "run-requested",
    uuid: "454C7F31-A915-4EA2-83F2-CFA655453C52", // the UUID of the application
    userAppConfigArgs: "abc=123&def=456" // if URL paramaters passed to RVM '?$$abc=123&$$def=456'
}

started

Generated when an application has started.

//This response has the following shape:
{
    topic: "application",
    type: "started",
    uuid: "454C7F31-A915-4EA2-83F2-CFA655453C52" // the UUID of the application
}

tray-icon-clicked

Generated when the tray icon is clicked.

//This response has the following shape:
{
    button: 0, // 0 for left, 1 for middle, 2 for right
    monitorInfo: { ... }, // see the monitor-info-changed payload in the system module for details
    topic: "application",
    type: "tray-icon-clicked",
    uuid: "454C7F31-A915-4EA2-83F2-CFA655453C52" // the UUID of the application,
    x: 123, // the cursor x coordinate
    y: 67 // the cursor y coordinate
}

window-alert-requested

Generated when an alert is fired and suppressed due to the customWindowAlert flag being true.

//This response has the following shape:
{
    message: "The alert message."
    name: "windowName",
    topic: "application",
    type: "window-alert-requested",
    url: "https://openfin.co/",
    uuid: "454C7F31-A915-4EA2-83F2-CFA655453C52" // the UUID of the application
}

window-auth-requested

Generated when a window within this application requires credentials from the user.

{
    name: "windowName",
    topic: "application",
    type: "window-auth-requested",
    uuid: "454C7F31-A915-4EA2-83F2-CFA655453C52" // the UUID of the application,
    authInfo: {
        host: "myserver",
        isProxy: false,
        port: 80,
        realm: "",
        scheme: "basic"
    }

}

window-blurred

Generated when a window of the application loses focus.

//This response has the following shape:
{
    name: "windowName",
    topic: "application",
    type: "window-blurred",
    uuid: "454C7F31-A915-4EA2-83F2-CFA655453C52" // the UUID of the application
}

window-closed

Generated when a child window has closed.

//This response has the following shape:
{
    name: "windowName",
    topic: "application",
    type: "window-closed",
    uuid: "454C7F31-A915-4EA2-83F2-CFA655453C52" // the UUID of the application
}

window-crashed

Generated when a child window has crashed.

//This response has the following shape:
{
    name: "windowName",
    topic: "application",
    type: "window-crashed",
    uuid: "454C7F31-A915-4EA2-83F2-CFA655453C52" // the UUID of the application
}

window-created

Generated when a child window is created.

//This response has the following shape:
{
    name: "windowName",
    topic: "application",
    type: "window-created",
    uuid: "454C7F31-A915-4EA2-83F2-CFA655453C52" // the UUID of the application
}

window-end-load

Generated when a child window ends loading.

//This response has the following shape:
{
    documentName: "documentName", // frame name
    isMain: true, // is this the main frame
    name: "windowName",
    topic: "application",
    type: "window-end-load",
    uuid: "454C7F31-A915-4EA2-83F2-CFA655453C52" // the UUID of the application
}

window-focused

Generated when a window of the application gains focus.

//This response has the following shape:
{
    name: "windowName",
    topic: "application",
    type: "window-focused",
    uuid: "454C7F31-A915-4EA2-83F2-CFA655453C52" // the UUID of the application
}

window-navigation-rejected

Generated when window navigation is rejected as per ContentNavigation whitelist/blacklist rules.

{
    name: "windowName",
    sourceName: "source of navigation window name",
    topic: "window-navigation-rejected",
    url: "http://blocked-content.url",
    uuid: "454C7F31-A915-4EA2-83F2-CFA655453C52" // the UUID of the application
}

window-not-responding

Generated when a child window is not responding.

//This response has the following shape:
{
    name: "windowName",
    topic: "application",
    type: "window-not-responding",
    uuid: "454C7F31-A915-4EA2-83F2-CFA655453C52" // the UUID of the application
}

window-out-of-memory

Generated when a child window is out of memory.

//This response has the following shape:
{
    name: "windowName",
    topic: "application",
    type: "window-out-of-memory",
    uuid: "454C7F31-A915-4EA2-83F2-CFA655453C52" // the UUID of the application
}

window-reloaded

Generated when a window has been reloaded

//This response has the following shape:
{
    name: "windowName",
    topic: "application",
    type: "window-reloaded",
    uuid: "AppUUID" //(string) the UUID of the application the window belongs to.
    url: "http://localhost:8080/index.html" //the url has has been reloaded.
}

window-responding

Generated when a child window is responding.

//This response has the following shape:
{
    name: "windowName",
    topic: "application",
    type: "window-responding",
    uuid: "454C7F31-A915-4EA2-83F2-CFA655453C52" // the UUID of the application
}

window-show-requested

Generated when a child window has been prevented from showing. A child window will be prevented from showing by default, either through the API or by a user when ‘show-requested’ has been subscribed to on the child window or 'window-show-requested' on the parent application and the Window.show(force) flag is false.

//This response has the following shape:
{
    name: "windowName",
    topic: "application",
    type: "window-show-requested",
    uuid: "454C7F31-A915-4EA2-83F2-CFA655453C52" // the UUID of the application
}

window-start-load

Generated when a child window starts loading.

//This response has the following shape:
{
    name: "windowName",
    topic: "application",
    type: "window-start-load",
    uuid: "454C7F31-A915-4EA2-83F2-CFA655453C52" // the UUID of the application
}