Add new window option (#1111)

* add new window menu option [WIP]

* Add dock menu building function

add option to create new window to top menu bar

main/src/main.ts

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import * as path from "path"
 import { app, BrowserWindow, ipcMain, Menu, webContents } from "electron"
 
 import * as Log from "./Log"
-import { buildMenu } from "./menu"
+import { buildDockMenu, buildMenu } from "./menu"
 import { makeSingleInstance } from "./ProcessLifecycle"
 
 global["getLogs"] = Log.getAllLogs // tslint:disable-line no-string-literal
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ if (!isDevelopment && !isDebug) {
     })
 }
 
-function createWindow(commandLineArguments, workingDirectory) {
+export function createWindow(commandLineArguments, workingDirectory) {
     Log.info(`Creating window with arguments: ${commandLineArguments} and working directory: ${workingDirectory}`)
 
     const webPreferences = {
@@ -130,6 +130,8 @@ function updateMenu(mainWindow, loadInit) {
     if (process.platform === "darwin") {
         // all osx windows share the same menu
         Menu.setApplicationMenu(menu)
+        const dockMenu = buildDockMenu(mainWindow, loadInit)
+        app.dock.setMenu(dockMenu)
     } else {
         // on windows and linux, set menu per window
         mainWindow.setMenu(menu)

main/src/menu.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,19 @@
 import * as os from "os"
 
 import { app, dialog, Menu, shell } from "electron"
+import { createWindow } from "./main"
+
+export const buildDockMenu = (mainWindow, loadInit) => {
+    const menu = []
+    menu.push({
+        label: "New Window",
+        click() {
+            createWindow([], process.cwd())
+        },
+    })
+
+    return Menu.buildFromTemplate(menu)
+}
 
 export const buildMenu = (mainWindow, loadInit) => {
     const menu = []
@@ -98,6 +111,15 @@ export const buildMenu = (mainWindow, loadInit) => {
             {
                 type: "separator",
             },
+            {
+                label: "New Window",
+                click() {
+                    createWindow([], process.cwd())
+                },
+            },
+            {
+                type: "separator",
+            },
             {
                 label: "Save",
                 click(item, focusedWindow) {