Devlog 8 - Polishing is really Boring

• The project is near completion on terms of features
• Now i am just Polishing the app doing things like improving UX, Text Content, adding minor features.

Despite that here are two major things i did

1. Special Function Support

• remember my earlier devlog where i mentioned that, increasing and decreasing the brightness or vol is not as simple as just some keypress on keyboard
• These comes under special fucniton and although you can trigger then via physical keyboard, but can’t via the virtual ones.
• to do that you need to run some special code, on macos via Applescript and on window vis winShell, i am still figuring it out for linux.

2. Appearance settings

• user can now customize button’s color, bg, add icon and images (custom images are under dev)
• i did all this with backward compatibility in mind (Big Brains)

CI/CD Pipeline

• Used Github Action to build the application for major platforms (macos, windows, linux)
• yeah all that, thousand build erros , waiting 10 min for each github action just to see a red X, i will not rant i am past that now

Future

i will be straight forward

• add custom image support
• verify and improve the cross platform functionality
• add some pre built layouts
• maybe add a guide/tour for the layout builder