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Electron Windows Badge plugin to access and modify the badge number of the app icon in windows.
Electron Windows Badge plugin to access and modify the badge number of the app icon in windows.
$ npm i electron-windows-badge --save
1) Require electron-windows-badge in your main process:
const Badge = require('electron-windows-badge');
2) Initialize new object of badge while creating window:
function createWindow () {
win = new BrowserWindow({width: 800, height: 600});
const badgeOptions = {}
new Badge(win, badgeOptions);
}
3) To update the badge you just need to call this(you must do it in render process):
ipcRenderer.sendSync('update-badge', 1);
4) To remove badge just call this(you must do it in render process):
ipcRenderer.sendSync('update-badge', null);
Badge options
| Option Name | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
fontColor | 'white' | Font color |
font | '24px arial' | Font style |
color | 'red' | The color of badge |
fit | true | Be sure that your number will be fit into badge |
decimals | 0 | Numbers after dot (For float numbers) |
radius | 8 | The radius of badge |
FAQs
Electron Windows Badge plugin to access and modify the badge number of the app icon in windows.
The npm package electron-windows-badge receives a total of 849 weekly downloads. As such, electron-windows-badge popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that electron-windows-badge demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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