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winapi-easy

An ergonomic and safe interface to some Windows API functionality.

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Design

This is an experimental library designed as an abstraction over the Windows API with the following properties:

  • Properly typed parameters, making wrong usage of the API difficult
  • Automatic release of resources on drop
  • No unsafe functionality exposed to the user outside of 'escape hatches'
  • Consistent error handling without special numerical return values

Expect breaking changes between versions. Any kind of feature completeness is also unrealistic given the huge size of the Windows API.

Features

  • Keyboard and mouse control (sending events, hotkeys, hooking)
  • Creating windows and manipulating window properties
  • Window actions like minimize, flash, taskbar progress animation
  • Creating notification icons & menus
  • Magnification API
  • Running message loops & listening for events
  • Process and thread functionality (including CPU & IO priority)
  • File transfers with progress notifications

License

Licensed under either of

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.

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