Alhumdulillah! Notify the user is an update is available 🎉

Author: mominul

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 # Change Log
+## 1.4.0
+* Fixes a serious bug [#26](https://github.com/OpenBangla/OpenBangla-Keyboard/issues/26).
+* OpenBangla Keyboard will check for updates automatically and notify the user if an update is available.
 ## 1.3.0
 * OpenBangla Keyboard now features a Phonetic AutoCorrect Preference Dialog [#20](https://github.com/OpenBangla/OpenBangla-Keyboard/pull/20). User now can view/edit/add AutoCorrect entries.
 * Better Topbar integration with X11 windowing system and reduce the size of TopBar [#22](https://github.com/OpenBangla/OpenBangla-Keyboard/pull/22).

README.md

@@ -87,7 +87,8 @@ Use iBus UI or run `ibus-setup` to add **OpenBangla Keyboard**. To get help on c
 ## Acknowledgements
  - Mehdi Hasan Khan for originally developing and maintaining Avro Keyboard,
  - Rifat Nabi for porting Avro Phonetic to Javascript,
- - [Sarim Khan](https://github.com/sarim) for writing ibus-avro.
+ - [Sarim Khan](https://github.com/sarim) for writing ibus-avro,
+ - [QSimpleUpdater](https://github.com/alex-spataru/QSimpleUpdater) for providing update mechanism.
 
 ## License
 Licensed under [GPL 3 Licence](https://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-3.0).

src/frontend/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-include_directories(../engine/ ../shared ../engine/libengine)
+include_directories(../engine/ ../shared ../engine/libengine 3rdParty)
 set(CMAKE_AUTOMOC ON)
 set(CMAKE_AUTOUIC ON)
 set(CMAKE_AUTORCC ON)

src/frontend/TopBar.cpp

@@ -32,8 +32,11 @@
 #include "SettingsDialog.h"
 #include "LayoutConverter.h"
 #include "AutoCorrectDialog.h"
+#include "QSimpleUpdater.h"
 #include "ui_TopBar.h"
 
+static const QString DEFS_URL = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenBangla/OpenBangla-Keyboard/master/UPDATES.json";
+
 TopBar::TopBar(QWidget *parent) :
     QMainWindow(parent),
     ui(new Ui::TopBar)
@@ -42,6 +45,7 @@ TopBar::TopBar(QWidget *parent) :
 
     gLayout = new Layout();
     gSettings = new Settings();
+    updater = QSimpleUpdater::getInstance();
 
     /* Dialogs */
     aboutDialog = new AboutDialog(this);
@@ -54,6 +58,7 @@ TopBar::TopBar(QWidget *parent) :
     SetupTopBar();
     SetupPopupMenus();
     SetupTrayIcon();
+    checkForUpdate();
 }
 
 TopBar::~TopBar()
@@ -92,6 +97,13 @@ void TopBar::SetupTopBar() {
   }
 }
 
+void TopBar::checkForUpdate() {
+  updater->setModuleVersion(DEFS_URL, PROJECT_VERSION);
+  updater->setNotifyOnUpdate(DEFS_URL, true);
+  updater->setDownloaderEnabled(DEFS_URL, false);
+  updater->checkForUpdates(DEFS_URL);
+}
+
 void TopBar::SetupPopupMenus() {
   // Layout Popup Menu
   layoutMenu = new QMenu("Select keyboard layout", this);

src/frontend/TopBar.h

@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ class AboutDialog;
 class AboutFile;
 class SettingsDialog;
 class AutoCorrectDialog;
+class QSimpleUpdater;
 
 class TopBar : public QMainWindow
 {
@@ -81,6 +82,7 @@ private slots:
     bool canMoveTopbar;
     int pressedMouseX, pressedMouseY;
     QSystemTrayIcon *tray;
+    QSimpleUpdater *updater;
 
     /* Dialogs */
     AboutDialog *aboutDialog;
@@ -120,6 +122,7 @@ private slots:
     void SetupTopBar();
     void SetupPopupMenus();
     void SetupTrayIcon();
+    void checkForUpdate();
 
     void RefreshLayouts();
 };

src/frontend/main.cpp

@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
 
 int main(int argc, char *argv []) {
   QApplication app(argc, argv);
+  app.setApplicationName("OpenBangla Keyboard");
+  app.setApplicationVersion(PROJECT_VERSION);
 
   // Prevent many instances of the app to be launched
   QString name = "com.openbangla.keyboard";