Class FrontendApplication

Protected Readonly _shell

Protected Readonly backendStopwatch

Protected Readonly commands

Protected Readonly contributions

Protected Readonly corePreferences

Protected Readonly keybindings

Protected Readonly layoutRestorer

Protected Readonly menus

Protected Readonly stateService

Protected Readonly stopwatch

Protected Readonly tooltipService

Protected Readonly windowsService

Protected attachShell

• attachShell(host): void

• Attach the application shell to the host element. If a startup indicator is present, the shell is inserted before that indicator so it is not visible yet.

  Parameters

  • host: HTMLElement

  Returns void

Protected attachTooltip

• attachTooltip(host): void

• Attach the tooltip container to the host element.

  Parameters

  • host: HTMLElement

  Returns void

Protected createDefaultLayout

• createDefaultLayout(): Promise<void>

• Let the frontend application contributions initialize the shell layout. Override this method in order to create an application-specific custom layout.

  Returns Promise<void>

Protected fireOnDidInitializeLayout

• fireOnDidInitializeLayout(): Promise<void>

• Returns Promise<void>

Protected getHost

• getHost(): Promise<HTMLElement>

• Return a promise to the host element to which the application shell is attached.

  Returns Promise<HTMLElement>

Protected getStartupIndicator

• getStartupIndicator(host): undefined | HTMLElement

• Return an HTML element that indicates the startup phase, e.g. with an animation or a splash screen.

  Parameters

  • host: HTMLElement

  Returns undefined | HTMLElement

Protected initializeLayout

• initializeLayout(): Promise<void>

• Initialize the shell layout either using the layout restorer service or, if no layout has been stored, by creating the default layout.

  Returns Promise<void>

Protected measure

• measure<T>(name, fn, message?, threshold?): Promise<T>

• Type Parameters

  • T

  Parameters

  • name: string
  • fn: (() => MaybePromise<T>)
    • • (): MaybePromise<T>

      • Returns MaybePromise<T>

  • message: string = ...
  • threshold: boolean = true

  Returns Promise<T>

Protected registerEventListeners

• registerEventListeners(): void

• Register global event listeners.

  Returns void

Protected restoreLayout

• restoreLayout(): Promise<boolean>

• Try to restore the shell layout from the storage service. Resolves to true if successful.

  Returns Promise<boolean>

Protected revealShell

• revealShell(host): Promise<void>

• If a startup indicator is present, it is first hidden with the theia-hidden CSS class and then removed after a while. The delay until removal is taken from the CSS transition duration.

  Parameters

  • host: HTMLElement

  Returns Promise<void>

Protected startContributions

• startContributions(): Promise<void>

• Initialize and start the frontend application contributions.

  Returns Promise<void>

Protected stopContributions

• stopContributions(): void

• Stop the frontend application contributions. This is called when the window is unloaded.

  Returns void