ScreenPlay is an open source cross plattform app for displaying Wallpaper, Widgets and AppDrawer. It is written in modern C++17/Qt5/QML. Binaries with workshop support are available for Windows/Linux/MacOSX via Steam. Join our community: Homepage, Forum
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The ScreenPlay Project

• General user docs. Contains infromations about content creation for ScreenPlay. Hosted on gitlab, made with mkdocs:
  • Contribute at: https://gitlab.com/kelteseth/ScreenPlayDocs
  • View at : https://kelteseth.gitlab.io/ScreenPlayDocs/
• Developer docs generated from the ScreenPlay source code of this repo. Hosted on gitlab, made with qDoc:
  • Contribute at: https://gitlab.com/kelteseth/ScreenPlayDeveloperDocs
  • View at : https://kelteseth.gitlab.io/ScreenPlayDeveloperDocs/
• Discussons and content can be found via:
  • Discord: https://discord.gg/3RygPHZ
  • Forum: https://forum.screen-play.app/
  • Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ScreenPlayApp/

Contributing

Everyone can contribute with code, design, documentation or translation. Visit our contributing guide for more informations.

• If you want to help translate
• If you are a programmer
• If you are a designer

Getting started

Basic

1. Install latest git + git-lfs
2. Clone ScreenPlay

git clone https://gitlab.com/kelteseth/ScreenPlay.git

3. Download the latest Qt 5.14. Earlier versions are not supported!
4. Start install-dependencies.bat to download dependencies into the Common/ folder

//Windows
.\install-dependencies.bat

//Linux
chmod +x install-dependencies.sh
.\install-dependencies.sh

• This will install these dependencies via vcpkg
  • libzippp
  • nlohmann-json
  • openSSL 1.1.1d
• Download these dependencies via git submodules
  • stomt-qt-sdk
  • qt-google-analytics

5. Follow the steps below for your OS. Then Open The ScreenPlay.pro via QtCreator.
6. Add install to the build steps. Projects -> Build -> Add Build Step -> Select Make -> Insert "install" into Make arguments.
7. Press build (the green play button). This will compile the project and copy all necessary files into your Qt installation.

Windows

1. Download and install MSVC 2019 Community
2. Download and install Qt 5 binary installer from qt.io
   • Install the Maintaince tool
   • Select the following features to install:
     • Qt 5.14.0
       • MSVC 2017 64-bit
       • Qt WebEngine

Linux

1. Install dependencies for your distro:

# Debian/Ubuntu
sudo apt install build-essential libgl1-mesa-dev

# Fedora/RHEL/CentOS (yum)
sudo yum groupinstall "C Development Tools and Libraries"
sudo yum install mesa-libGL-devel

# openSUSE (zypper)
sudo zypper install -t pattern devel_basis

2. Download and install Qt 5 binary installer from qt.io
   • Install the Maintaince tool
   • Select the following features to install:
     • Qt 5.14.0
       • GCC
       • Qt WebEngine

OSX

1. Install XCode via the app store
2. Launch XCode and install the XCode command line tools. (This may take a few minutes)
   • If in doubt or unsure, execute 'xcode-select --install'
3. Download and install Qt 5 binary installer from qt.io
   • Install the Maintaince tool
   • Select the following features to install:
     • Qt 5.14.0
       • Qt WebEngine
     • Developer and Designer Tools
       • OpenSSL 1.1.1.c Toolkit
         • OpenSSL 64-bit binaries
4. Change your default kit: QtCreator -> Options -> Kits -> Select your default kit (Desktop Qt 5.13.0) -> Change c and c++ Compiler to Apple Clang (x86_64)