Interface IDesktopShell

Namespace

VpnHood.AppUi.Hosting.Desktop.Abstractions

Assembly

VpnHood.AppUi.Hosting.Desktop.Abstractions.dll

Defines what the UI asks of the system outside its window, where the UI framework's own way, or the host's, is refused.

public interface IDesktopShell

Remarks

It serves where the platform keeps an app from those ways, as for the Store edition. A host with no shell leaves the framework's and the host's own ways (Shell).

Methods

CopyText(string)

Puts text on the clipboard, for the person to paste elsewhere.

void CopyText(string text)

Parameters

text string

The text.

OpenLink(Uri, CancellationToken)

Opens a link with the application the system associates with it: a web link in the person's browser.

Task<bool> OpenLink(Uri url, CancellationToken cancellationToken)

Parameters

url Uri

The link.

cancellationToken CancellationToken

The token to monitor for cancellation requests.

Returns

Task<bool>

A task whose result is true where the link opened, or false where the system would not open it, and the UI offers it another way.

Exceptions

OperationCanceledException

cancellationToken was canceled.

ShowConnectionBadge(DesktopConnectionBadge?)

Shows the connection's state on the app's taskbar button, in the system's own badge.

void ShowConnectionBadge(DesktopConnectionBadge? badge)

Parameters

badge DesktopConnectionBadge?

The state, or null to take the badge away, as the UI ends.