winctl | Windows window manipulation for node.js

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winctl is a C++ library. winctl has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

Windows window manipulation for node.js. winctl wraps a few functions of the windows api to allow iterating over currently opened windows and performing a few limited operations on them. This is not a production ready module! There is no real documentation either yet. Sorry for that. The example has to suffice for now.

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winctl has a low active ecosystem.

It has 57 star(s) with 26 fork(s). There are 4 watchers for this library.

It had no major release in the last 6 months.

There are 6 open issues and 0 have been closed. There are 1 open pull requests and 0 closed requests.

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The latest version of winctl is current.

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winctl Examples and Code Snippets

Example

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var winctl = require('../');

var win = winctl.GetActiveWindow();

// Output some information about the currently active window
console.log("Active Window Hwnd:", win.getHwnd());
console.log("Active Window Title:", win.getTitle());
console.log("Dimen

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npm install -g node-gyp

node-gyp configure
node-gyp build

Community Discussions

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Detect when the user unlocks the workstation

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Detect when the user unlocks the workstation

Asked 2017-Apr-13 at 12:01

I'm trying to detect when a user unlocks their workstation. The following code attempts to register the window to receive session change messages using WTSRegisterSessionNotification(). Supposedly after this I can listen for WM_WTSSESSION_CHANGE which can contain WTS_SESSION_UNLOCK as a param.

Issue: Currently WTSRegisterSessionNotification() always returns false.

Anyone know how I can achieve this? I'm on Windows 10 btw.

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Answered 2017-Apr-10 at 01:52

You should not be using winctl.GetActiveWindow to get a HWND because you don't actually know which window is active. As far as I can tell GetActiveWindow calls GetForegroundWindow internally and that is insane for two reasons:

GetForegroundWindow returns the foreground window on the users desktop and could be a window in another application.
Windows has an actual function named GetActiveWindow and it is not the same as calling GetForegroundWindow.

Create a hidden native window somehow or use a window provided by electron (GetTopLevelNativeWindow perhaps?)

GetLastError returns the wrong value because you are calling it too late. There is a thick layer of stuff between you and the native Windows function and something is calling SetLastError before you regain control. The 'ffi' library needs a way to specify that you want it to call GetLastError on your behalf immediately after calling the requested function.

And finally, a Windows BOOL is int sized and I'm guessing node.js treats it as a byte?

Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43310224

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