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You're able to see icons and names of the available applications on the left and start and stop them by clicking on their respective icons. Each application, as well as the System-UI look alike and have the same functionality available in the UI: You can choose from one of the available intent ids in the top combo-box (labeled \e Intent), and optionally also specify which application you would like to handle the chosen request via the combo-box below (labeled \e Application). Clicking the \e Request button will create and send the corresponding intent request to the application-manager's IntentServer for handling. There are three possible outcomes: \list \li The \e Intent / \e Application combination was valid and the target application was able to handle the request: the \l{IntentRequest::result}{result of this request} will be shown as JSON text in the lower output field labeled \e Request. \li Either the \e Intent / \e Application combination was invalid or the target application was not able to handle the request properly: the \l{IntentRequest::errorMessage} {error message of this request} will be shown as plain text in the lower output field labeled \e Request. \li You did not specify an \e Application, plus the chosen \e Intent can be handled by more than one application: in this case the example's System-UI will display a dialog, prompting the user to \l{IntentServer::disambiguationRequest}{disambiguate the request}. \endlist \section1 Files and folder structure This example is comprised of a System-UI and three sample applications ("Red Intents", "Green Intents" and "Blue Intents"), making for four separate QML applications in total. System-UI is also just a QML application in the end, albeit a special one. Each application is put in its own separate directory as described below. Since the QtQuickControls 2 based UI is used by all the applications and the System-UI, its component live in a shared directory. \list \li \tt{system-ui.qml} \li \tt{\b{apps}} \list \li \tt{\b{intents.blue}} \list \li \tt{icon.png} \li \tt{info.yaml} \li \tt{main.qml} \endlist \li \tt{\b{intents.red}} \list \li \tt{icon.png} \li \tt{info.yaml} \li \tt{main.qml} \endlist \li \tt{\b{intents.green}} \list \li \tt{icon.png} \li \tt{info.yaml} \li \tt{main.qml} \endlist \endlist \li \tt{\b{shared}} \list \li \tt{IntentsApplicationWindow.qml} \li \tt{IntentsUIPage.qml} \endlist \endlist As you can see above, each application, besides its main QML file, also has an icon and a \tt{info.yaml}. That YAML file contains the application metadata, which also includes the definition of the intents that this application is able to handle. \section1 Running Assuming the \c appman executable is in your path, you can run the System-UI as follows: \badcode examples/applicationmanager/intents$ appman --builtin-apps-manifest-dir ./apps system-ui.qml \endcode Adding \c{-o "ui: { style: material }" } will make the example look and feel a lot nicer. And this is what you should see: \image intents-launched.png For information on these and other command line options you can run \tt{appman --help}. \section1 Application implementation All the applicationa (red, green and blue) are exactly the same and their \c main.qml just instantiates the shared IntentsApplicationWindow component. \snippet applicationmanager/intents/apps/intents.red/main.qml Main The IntentsApplicationWindow component is actually a top-level ApplicationManagerWindow, with its UI contents being defined by instantiating the - also shared - component \c IntentsUIPage. This UI component does not have any intent specific code, so the actual sending is done in signal handler attached to the IntentsUIPage request signal: \snippet applicationmanager/intents/shared/IntentsApplicationWindow.qml Send Intent After calling IntentClient::sendIntentRequest with the parameters as chosen in the UI, the example code will connect a function object to the \l{IntentClientRequest::replyReceived} {request's replyReceived} signal. As mentioned in the introduction, it will then dump the result into the \e Request field in the UI. In addition, it defines all the necessary IntentHandlers for the applications, e.g.: \snippet applicationmanager/intents/shared/IntentsApplicationWindow.qml Intent Handler These intent handlers are pretty simple, with each one just triggering a simple animation that is also defined in this file, so for the \c rotate-window intent this would be: \snippet applicationmanager/intents/shared/IntentsApplicationWindow.qml Intent Animation Just implementing IntentHandlers in QML is not enough though, because the application-manager needs the information on which application supports which intents \b before the applications are already running, most importantly to faciliate auto-starting applications on intent requests. As for every other application configuration in the application-manager, this is done through the applications's manifest file \c info.yaml: The \b Red application defines three available intents. \quotefromfile applicationmanager/intents/apps/intents.red/info.yaml \skipto intents: \printto Additionally, the red application gains the \c call-blue capability, which is required by certain intents in the blue application (see below) \quotefromfile applicationmanager/intents/apps/intents.red/info.yaml \skipto capabilities: \printline capabilities The \b Green application defines only two available intents. Please note that even though the green application has an IntentHandler for the \c blink-window intent through the shared IntentsApplicationWindow component, this handler would never be called, since this intent id is not registered with the system via the \c info.yaml manifest: \quotefromfile applicationmanager/intents/apps/intents.green/info.yaml \skipto intents: \printto The \b Blue application has the most complex intent definition. In addition to handling the same three intents as the red application, it registeres the \c blue-window-private intent that has the attribute \c{visibility: private}. Private intents can only be requested from the same application that registered them, so in this case only blue can successfully request the \c blue-window-private intent. Furthermore, the \c rotate-window intent in this application can only be requested by applications that have the \c call-blue capability: here the red application comes with the required capability, while the green one doesn't (see above). \quotefromfile applicationmanager/intents/apps/intents.blue/info.yaml \skipto intents: \printto \section1 System-UI implementation The windows and application management part of the System-UI is in large parts a copy of the "Hello-World!" example. Instead of arranging all incoming application windows in a column on the right, the Intents example uses a 2x2 grid to display its own UI and the three applications it comes with. The System-UI in the top-left part is the shared IntentsUIPage component, that is used the same way in the applications (see below). What is special about the System-UI as compared to the applications, is the disambiguation mechanism and the accompanying UI. Registering for the IntentServer's disambiguation requests is done here: \snippet applicationmanager/intents/system-ui.qml Connection Since we want to stay flexible with regards to the number of parallel intent requests in the system, we just add the incoming request to a queue (\c allRequests). The \c Dialog that consumes that queue is a fairly standard QtQuickControls 2 dialog, that gives you nice UI showing you the possible application choices coming from the IntentServer::disambiguationRequested() signal. Upon pressing \e Ok or \e Cancel, the dialog will notify the IntentServer about the user's decision: \snippet applicationmanager/intents/system-ui.qml OkCancel */