conan-app-launcher 0.3.1

App Launcher for quick starting applications with conan

Conan App Launcher

Quick Overview

The goal of this project is to provide a frontend to start executable contained in packages of the package manager conan. It is intented to be used on Windows and Linux x64 platforms.

Features:

• configurable layout (tabs and applications) with json file
• installs all referenced packages automatically
• automatic settings resolution for your platform
• integrated console for information an packages and config file
• installable with pip

How to install?

Prequisites on Linux

Qt for Python must be installed with the native package manager, like:

sudo apt install python3-pyqt5

Ubuntu 16.04 is currently not supported, because of Python 3.5 syntax.

With pip from Pypi

pip install conan-app-launcher

From source

After checkout use the command: pip install .

Running

Execute conan_app_launcher, if the Python "scripts" folder is on your system path, or look it up manually in the site-packages folder.

Config File

The config file uses the following exemplary schema:

{
    "version": "0.2.0", // please update the schema manually, no auto update available
    "tabs": [
        {
            "name": "Basics",
            "apps": [
                {
                    "name": "App1 with spaces", 
                    "package_id": "app1/0.1.0@user1/stable", // full conan reference
                    "executable": "bin/app1", // relative to conan "package folder"
                    "icon": "MyIcon.png" // relative to this config file,
                    "console_application": true, // start console application in extra window
                    "args": "--version" // args to start the application with
                },
                {
                    "name": "App2",
                    "package_id": "app2/0.2.0@user2/testing",
                    "executable": "bin/app2", // forward slashes are preferred
                    "icon": "C:\\CustomIcon.ico" // but escaped backslashes also work
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Extra",
            "apps": [
                {
                    "name": "App3",
                    "package_id": "app3/0.3.0@user3/stable",
                    "console_application": true, // starts in a new console window
                    "executable": "bin/app3", // extension (.exe) can be ommited for windows
                    // Icon can be ommitted
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Toolchain

This project uses Python with Qt as a frontend using the PyQt integration. The IDE integration is done for VsCode.