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#61

Work in progress / Re: New resizer discussion

Last post by Vortex - November 22, 2025, 07:44:23 PM

It's maybe a matter of personal tast but like Timo, I support open source projects.

#62

Work in progress / Re: New resizer discussion

Last post by TimoVJL - November 22, 2025, 07:28:10 PM

I was just a hobby programmer, but now retired and invalid.
But i bought a new HP laptop Windows 11, as it was so cheap, only 236 €

At another site

I bought an very cheap HP laptop with Intel® Core™ i3-N305 processor, so i can test code with it too.

#63

Chit-Chat / Re: WinDirStat

Last post by John Z - November 22, 2025, 05:23:34 PM

Kindly, could you share your inspection results with us?

I download the .zip installation.  Unzipped into a directory. A single .exe
Started with no system network - didn't see any attempt to communicate.
Disabled the HTTPS servers feature. Enabled the system network and started it up again.
Nothing was seen in the firewall logs or in the resource monitor.

I let it index the main drive, it created a 33 mb db in the program directory.
The everything.db was not readable with sqlite - said it was not a db. HEXEDITOR
showed ESDb as the initial DB file bytes.

Searching was fast once the index was already created, which was fast too.

Everything seems to remain in the installation directory.  There is a user
editable .ini file.  The program interface for options seem to have most of the setting.

I disabled run in background - personal choice

Didn't see anything in appdata. Didn't try the HTTPS server feature.

So looks ok to me.

John Z

#64

Work in progress / Re: New resizer discussion

Last post by John Z - November 22, 2025, 02:55:32 PM

What is a 'closed' project? - this is still developing not closed.

If you are referring to just releasing the source code it is still developing and will be released soon, as I have done with almost everything I've posted.... buggy or incomplete code shouldn't be released IMO.

The library was posted to hopefully get some feedback on it other than just my own testing, opinions and thoughts.

Once released (soon) I hope some of the more professional developers can improve my amateur programming.


John Z

Update: Attached the project zip for building the library.  Still to be done - make it
compatible with both ANSI and UNICODE - as posted it is not UNICODE aware.

Removed attachment see https://forum.pellesc.de/index.php?topic=11682.0

#65

Work in progress / Re: New resizer discussion

Last post by TimoVJL - November 22, 2025, 02:37:08 PM

Closed projects are never of interest to me.

#66

Work in progress / Re: New resizer discussion

Last post by John Z - November 22, 2025, 01:09:38 PM

Update: 
Child of Child tested ok - no problem
Static controls class handling is updated ( I did not know a bitmap was a static control ) but fixed now.

Added simple method to inhibit resizing of individual controls providing a capability similar to the IDE settings in Resizable Dialogs, except not orientation specific.

New library for testing will be posted after some more clean up.

John Z

Update: Posted complete project with source at https://forum.pellesc.de/index.php?topic=11682.0

#67

Beginner questions / Re: Lib HID / HID API

Last post by Vortex - November 22, 2025, 09:32:21 AM

Converting the import library to the module definition file :

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LIBRARY hidapi
EXPORTS
"hid_close"
"hid_enumerate"
"hid_error"
"hid_exit"
"hid_free_enumeration"
"hid_get_device_info"
"hid_get_feature_report"
"hid_get_indexed_string"
"hid_get_input_report"
"hid_get_manufacturer_string"
"hid_get_product_string"
"hid_get_report_descriptor"
"hid_get_serial_number_string"
"hid_init"
"hid_open"
"hid_open_path"
"hid_read"
"hid_read_error"
"hid_read_timeout"
"hid_send_feature_report"
"hid_send_output_report"
"hid_set_nonblocking"
"hid_version"
"hid_version_str"
"hid_winapi_descriptor_reconstruct_pp_data"
"hid_winapi_get_container_id"
"hid_winapi_set_write_timeout"
"hid_write"

All the functions are following the __cdecl calling convention.

#68

Beginner questions / Re: Lib HID / HID API

Last post by RKSJBeck - November 21, 2025, 11:48:27 PM

Thanks for the help TimoVJL!

I'll give it a go.
It does compile without errors or warnings, and it links.

#69

Chit-Chat / Re: WinDirStat

Last post by John Z - November 21, 2025, 01:35:07 PM

Definitely can but it will be a little while yet.

John Z

#70

Chit-Chat / Re: WinDirStat

Last post by Vortex - November 21, 2025, 08:03:44 AM

I wounder though if the Everything software 'phones home' or sends other telemetry without notification.  I'll install at some point and check.

Kindly, could you share your inspection results with us?