Devlog #6 -> WinBind
Honestly nothing has happened.
Except few polishing, and making the base program called common features
Common features can do a looot of things, including enabling animations and also changing the wallpaper and cursor. Fine, not for normal use honest. Only if you are doing LoadConf[]. And yes, background music! How can i forget it?
The whole project currently only needs linking and polishing.
Thats it.
I think 40h, and i am done with this project.(more gif and img)

WinFlow -> Devlog 1

I am making a project called WinFlow

WinFlow => App that makes your workspace more fluent buttery with awsome UI.

Tech stack:
Tauri(RUST, html, css, js)
C++(Rust IPC)

I am building a litral file explorer called WinFlow Explorer, but for that I have to do CLI part.

I implemented a prototype, well commented code, and here is the result.

I will then begin by rust IPC and then start buiding the app and the UI.

My app is also better and faster than microsoft, because the explorer is not made by microsoft, it’s made by me

(secret: I use recursive method, while windows struggles to calculate the estimated time :))

Devlog #5 - WinBind

I am VERY dilapidated and crumbesome.
I hate WINDOWS!! Why does it NOT provide mere basic API’s!! Oh, change global accent?

Go to stack overflow, keep viewing for hours not counted as stardust and find NOTHING.

Anyway, I have introduced MANY features, mostly rectified the once that where NOT working

Now I can also do

Startup = [
"app.exe"
]

Basically add apps like this… and run them when app starts. That’s it.

But parsing the thing with a parser(I had to make it) took me time 😭 .
It took me more time when I was making keybinds, but Okay.

But I had a lot of trouble with this:

LoadConf[]

Took all my hardcoding to NULL, I had to rewrite a LOT of elements, create some kind of centralisation.

OK.

Anyway, It WASN’T easy, as you can see I got a Warning to Devlog NOW.
Fine, you can see my time ~8h. MAX is 10h.

Whatevers.

Site is updated. Please check if you want to :)

https://advay-cmd.github.io/WinBind
[Still in construction, documentation.html is made.]

Bi! Meet you soon with a working project(which will take ~thriple of the time done… lets see.)!, DON’T forget to follow me.

Devlog 4 - WinBind

Oh my god.
I am actually getting bewildered by windows.
What a weird OS.
Windows is SO bad, it doesn’t expose half the things I need, and very soon I am going to be needing injection pocking up on apps(YES, the same one malwares use! But I am helpless)
I am also going to use ‘’‘uxtheme.dll’’’ and others, going to hook, inject custom alg.
Might work.
Or I might not do at all.
Cause Windows is getting on my nerves.
The lowlevel coding burns you! Honestly
But right now I feel like 😭
Windows!!!!! WHY CAN’T YOU EXPOSE EVERYTHING?
Anyway, if I have to draw custom borders, I have 2 plans:

• Use LayeredWindows(Which CAN’T be used if transparency is on)
• Inject(Don’t scream Malware at me)

Its been a tough time, I really do hope to get x24 multiplier, honestly. Sometimes people should take in account of PAIN and time lost in reading millions of microsoft documentation which is not counted the the time logged 😭 .
I just want to know: Am I cooking 🧑‍🍳 or I am cooked
(Also fellas, YES, GITHUB CODE IS NOW UPDATED! GO CHECK, AND COMPILE!)
Site is Published, YET not complete: https://advay-cmd.github.io/WinBind/
You can tell me improvements for the website too.
For DOCS, go to github, go to WinBind/Docs/md, not all of the md’s are there so you gotta wait. Anyway that’s it. I am really tired so i might not be able to write it like you want me to. (Ninja special: StealFocus is AVAILIBLE! Watch video to see)

Anyway, thanks for reviewing.
I would like to know yet, am I cooking or getting cooked .

Devlog #3 -> WinBind

HONESTLY
At this point, my BRAIN is FRIED! IT IS BOILING!
MAN! HOW HARD IT IS TO MAKE A PROJECT?
IT IS TOUGH! DOESN’T ANYONE HAVE EXAMS?

Honestly, I JUST WANT TO QUIT MY LIFE 😭

Ok, you are not here for my emotional scene. Your here for my devlog. Honestly, I have forgot my name, how much I am working on the computer, probably forgot life; this work is exausting and tiering…

I thought I loved coding. Slowly the PAIN is catching up, with me realising WHY adults hate coding.

Ok, enough of my distribution on PAIN, lets go to WHAT I DID.

I achived to colour(color) to blue, that can be customized. The mod is yet not merged to the official one. This won’t work for Win10, as I use official DwmSetWindowAttribute() function that works ONLY AND ONLY on Windows 11.

I HAVE AT LEAST 10 PAGES OF WIN32 DOC OPEN IN MY BROWSER!! 😭

The documentation says it simply:
HRESULT DwmSetWindowAttribute(
[in] HWND hwnd,
[in] DWORD dwAttribute,
[in] LPCVOID pvAttribute,
[in] DWORD cbAttribute
);

Simple enough right?

Guess what? WRONG!

• Error Handling
• Memory management
• Conf reader
• Documentation
• Faliure Breakpoints
  and so on.
  It is still kindda unstable - it crashes when a privlaged window is open, also, it DOESN’T loop, till now.
  Follow pls, enjoy the beauty(or whatever you want to call. You can say unstable) of my app, till ALL of it’s source code is RELEASED at ONCE.
  (Meaning, its still not updated. 😕 )(Someone should give stardust for mental un-sanity)

Devlog #2 -> WinBind

I had been focusing too much on c++… I needed rest and I had to remind myself, no software was complete without Documentation.
I started creating the website. Though I have created the site on my own(a little elements copied from previous website), it is still in development.
Translucentcy has now been divided into .h and .cpp(YET to merge), but good news is that MANY found bugs(ahem, they crashed my PC with BSOD) are ELIMINATED. It works like a charm now.

Honestly, for me these two are very important. I work with WinBind everyday, and now I have too becomed customed to it. It is really good application, seriously helpful for me to.

Git code has NOT been updated. Don’t bother checking the old code and compling. I will post the newest one sometime else….

This has been the MOST draining week ever. My dream is to get 1,688-1,815 stardust… and so far, this is soo hard a target! Anyway… I will try my best. Follow for making my torture worth it(I am working at midnight and then sleeping because of this!).

Hello there! Welcome to the world of WinBind

I have created an app called WinBind.
WinBind: Windows binds to your Personalisation

Right now I have made the KeyBinder: KeyBinder allows you almost ULTIMATE customizability over what shortcut does, how does it behave and everything else. Right now only 2 features - Move_Switch and Move are implemented.

More features will bring - Other shortcuts to do same task (CTRL+ SHIFT + V doing CTRL + V), and execute various commands and apps, by just a shortcut.

Also I may add the keyboard remapping function, but its a doubt, windows already has in settings.

Anyway, with time, I would implement, window decorations, custom animations and more!

I coded this in C++, as I wanted the app to be extremely responsive, and do a delay time for processing to 0.04ms(untested, just an estimate). I also thought, low-level language will be the best at doing this delecate things… and a UI at this early stage is not required.

It is really optimized and uses only a whopping MAX of 1.8MB of the memory(RAM)(tested)(Lowest: 0.2MB), running silently while you do your work effortlessly (I spent a LOT of time fixing my little[huge] mistake of overoptimizing).

It is hard for me to make overall this project, like the bolders I have faced and got angry at… It took me time to first design the struct of conf, inspired by Hyprland and .lua scripts… It took me a lot of time on pen and paper, before I present this .conf to you. It might look simple, but as things add, if not carefully planned, things will fall from a slide dangerously steep. My second headache was coding the whole thing. I was getting so hallucinated by pointer and win32 api’s, I had no choice but to give this task to AI(though I HAD TO DO AFTER IT GENERATED BOILERPLATE). It was scary to imagine if i would make a mistake and then my computer will crash, probably blaring SegFault. My third headache was the .exe. It was getting blocked by defender, ‘cause it thought my code is a trojan horse malware. After hurdling that, I got WDAC blocking my app. The only workaround was to change filenames,,, Later, I will see signing the .exe. These three were nightmares, and belive me, 3h were easily spent on this with the additional 3h to make the program. Pheww… But I fear that there is harder things to come in my way. I would be very happy if I achieve window decorations/skins. (Stardock, OpenSource WinBind is gonna compete with you, and if I succeed, you WILL lose. OpenSource > Paid Products that StarDock makes).

2: I have also coded the translucentcy function, but that is still in progress to merge with the actual project. Stay Tuned! [Uses 0.1-NIL memory]

Technical Stack:
CPP code(obviously)
Batch Files

Till now, I am trying to make this app with no admin privlages required, and will try to keep up(Its not a pleasant sight to the developer when creating a app that doesn’t have admin permissions. I had to write ALL undocumented GUIDS and try them one by one on each computer… Maybe sooner or later I would need admin privlages).

Thank you for giving your time to this app, and will see you soon again(Also, watch the video 😊)!