@todesktop/client-get-app-icon

• ToDesktop Client Get App Icon
  • Installation
  • Usage
  • Architecture
  • Development

ToDesktop Client Get App Icon

This is the repo for the ToDesktop Get App Icon client.

This is a zero-dependency package for interacting with @todesktop/plugin-get-app-icon. This package exposes a function for getting the icon of a file or app.

Installation

Install @todesktop/client-get-app-icon in your client-side application using

$ npm install @todesktop/client-get-app-icon

Installation of the plugin package is also necessary.

Usage

Get the icon of a file or app as a PNG image.

import { extractIcon } from "@todesktop/client-get-app-icon";

(async () => {
  console.log(await extractIcon("path/to/icon"));
	// data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAKsAAADV.....
})();

Architecture

This package requires the following files:

• src/index.ts: exposes plugin functionality through strongly-typed, easy-to-use functions.
• src/generated/plugin.d.ts: automatically generated types from @todesktop/plugin-get-app-icon's index.ts file.

Development

Refer to the root repo for development instructions.