slint/tools/viewer/README.md
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# Viewer for SixtyFPS
This program is a viewer for `.60` files from the [SixtyFPS Project](https://sixtyfps.io).
## Installation
The viewer can be installed from crates.io:
```bash
cargo install sixtyfps-viewer
```
Alternatively, you can download one of our pre-built binaries for Linux or Windows:
1. Open <https://github.com/sixtyfpsui/sixtyfps/releases>
2. Click on the latest release
3. From "Assets" download either `sixtyfps-viewer-linux.tar.gz` for a Linux x86-64 binary
or `sixtyfps-viewer-windows.zip` for a Windows x86-64 binary.
4. Uncompress the downloaded archive and run `sixtyfps-viewer`/`sixtyfps-viewer.exe`.
## Usage
You can open .60 files by just passing it as an argument:
```bash
sixtyfps-viewer path/to/myfile.60
```
## Command line arguments
- `--auto-reload`: Automatically watch the file system, and reload when it changes
- `--save-data <file>`: When exiting, write the value of public properties to a json file.
Only property whose types can be serialized to json will be written.
This option is incompatible with `--auto-reload`
- `--load-data <file>`: Load the values of public properties from a json file.
- `-I <path>`: Add an include path to look for imported .60 files or images.
- `--style <style>`: Set the style. Defaults to `native` if the Qt backend is compiled, otherwise `fluent`
- `--backend <backend>`: Override the SixtyFPS rendering backend
- `--on <callback> <handler>`: Set a callback handler, see [callback handler](#callback-handlers)
Instead of a path to a file, one can use `-` for the standard input or the standard output.
## Callback handler
It is possible to tell the viewer to execute some shell commands when a callback is recieved.
You can use the `--on` command line argument, followed by the callback name, followed by the command.
Within the command arguments, `$1`, `$2`, ... will be replaced by the first, second, ... argument of the
callback. These will be shell escaped.
Example: Imagine we have a myfile.60 looking like this:
```60
MyApp := Window {
callback open-url(string);
//...
}
```
It is possible to make the `open-url` callback to execute a command by doing
```bash
sixtyfps-viewer --on open-url 'xdg-open $1' myfile.60
```
Be carefull to use single quote or to escape the `$` so that the shell don't expand the `$1`
## Dialogs
If the root element of the .60 file is a `Dialog`, the different StandardButton might close
the dialog if no callback was set on the button.
- `ok`, `yes`, or `close` buttons accepts the dialog
- `cancel`, `no` buttons reject the dialog
## Result code
The program returns with the following error code:
- If the command line argument parsing fails, the exit code will be *1*
- If the .60 compilation fails, the compilation error will be printed to stderr and the exit code
will be *-1*
- If a Window is closed, the exit code will be *0*
- If a Dialog is closed with the "Ok" or "Closed" or "Yes" button, the exit code will be *0*
- If a Dialog is closed with the "Cancel" or "No" button, or using the close button in the window
title bar, the exit code will be *1*
## Examples
`sixtyfps-viewer` can be used to display an GUI from a shell script. For examples check out the
[examples/bash](https://github.com/sixtyfpsui/sixtyfps/tree/master/examples/bash) folder in our repository.