win32 2.0.0

A Dart library for accessing common Win32 APIs using FFI. No C required!

2.0.0

• Stable version w/ sound null safety.

2.0.0-nullsafety.12

• Fix a string bug

2.0.0-nullsafety.11

• Make VARIANT more representative of the underlying type.
• Add more tests.
• Bump to ffi 1.0.0

2.0.0-nullsafety.10

• Make VARIANT more representative of the underlying type.
• Add more tests.
• Bump to ffi 0.3.0-nullsafety.1

2.0.0-nullsafety.9

• Workarounds to fix sizing of BLUETOOTH_PIN_INFO and SHITEMID structs.
• Add waveOut* APIs from winmm.dll (thanks @slightfoot)
• Updated memory allocation due to FFI breaking changes.

2.0.0-nullsafety.8

• New JSON-based metadata format for Win32 APIs that supports API sets and minimum versions, and more robust tooling for loading and saving metadata
• 100+ new APIs in kernel32, user32, ole32, advapi32, shell32 and gdi32
• Migrated Windows Runtime APIs into core unmanaged metadata
• Added COM tests and exported several COM interfaces that were missing
• New shell tray notification example (thanks @ilopX)

2.0.0-nullsafety.7

• Documented more constants and callbacks
• Add AnimateWindow, ChildWindowFromPoint, ChildWindowFromPointEx, EnumChildWindows, LogicalToPhysicalPoint, OpenIcon, PhysicalToLogicalPoint, PostThreadMessage, ReplyMessage, SetForegroundWindow, SoundSentry, WaitMessage user32 APIs
• Add CreateHatchBrush gdi32 API

2.0.0-nullsafety.6

• Add GetDpiForWindow, GetSystemMetricsForDpi, GetWindowRect, IsZoomed, PostMessage user32 APIs for @callmebit

2.0.0-nullsafety.5

• Add dialog box example and supporting extension methods

2.0.0-nullsafety.4

• Add remaining Win32 dialog calls

2.0.0-nullsafety.3

• Add button and dialog style constants
• Add DLGTEMPLATE and DLGITEMTEMPLATE

2.0.0-nullsafety.2

• Add extended window style constants (WM_EX_*)

2.0.0-nullsafety.1

• Add a number of GDI calls
• Rework API wrapper to use functions instead of properties
• Convert API tests support reworked API wrapper
• High-fidelity INPUT struct that demonstrates an approach for union structs in Dart FFI
• Document some more constants

2.0.0-nullsafety.0

• Enable sound null safety

1.7.5

• WinMM: Add PlaySound (thanks @Hexer10)

1.7.4

• Add SysAllocString, SysFreeString, SysStringByteLen, SysStringLen, SHCreateItemFromParsingName
• Rename VARIANT_POINTER to VARIANT

1.7.3

• Expand Win32 API documentation.
• New APIs:
  • User32: ClipCursor, CopyIcon, DestroyIcon, DrawIcon, GetCursor, GetCursorPos, GetSystemMenu, SetMenuInfo, SetMenuItemInfo, ShowCursor

1.7.2

• Add Win32 API documentation and a couple of minor APIs.

1.7.1

• Add version information APIs and example.

1.7.0

• Changed how the C-style APIs are generated. This should result in far better code smarts in your editor, as well as major improvements to the auto-generated documentation.
• Added many new APIs, including GetCurrentProcess and GetModuleFileName

1.6.10

• New APIs
  • Shell: LockWorkstation, SHEmptyRecycleBin, SHGetDiskFreeSpaceEx, SHGetDriveMedia, SHQueryRecycleBin, InitCommonControlsEx, DrawStatusText
  • Add high-precision timing APIs: QueryPerformanceFrequency, QueryPerformanceCounter
  • User32: SetParent, CreateWindow macro, MonitorFromPoint, SetWindowsLongPtr
  • Kernel: Add SystemParametersInfo and related constants
  • Kernel: Add EnumProcessModulesEx (thanks @Hexer10)
• Samples
  • Add example of using app manifests to declare support for UAC permissions and Windows 10 opt-in behavior
• Windows Runtime metadata
  • Greatly expand WinMD utility to generate APIs directly from Windows Metadata
  • Autogenerate all Windows Runtime classes except ICalendar and IFileOpenPicker from metadata
• Code tidy up
  • Add more tests
  • Go through all the code with a stricter linter
  • Update README with screenshots and examples
  • Update Flutter Windows examples to the v4 template

1.6.9

• Add credential management APIs (thanks @hpoul)
• Add battery and power management APIs
• Overhaul HRESULTs and add more tests

1.6.8

• Add font enumeration example
• Experiment with hosting documentation on GitHub

1.6.7

• Add basic registry checks
• Add initial Bluetooth discovery support
• Add a system information sample
• Guard tests so that they work on Windows 7
• Add some shell APIs and more tests

1.6.6

• Add more process management APIs
• Add high level monitor configuration API

1.6.5

• Add a broader array of console APIs
• Add a wallpaper example

1.6.4

• Lots of documentation and linter cleanup

1.6.3

• Add TaskDialog and dynamic library loading APIs
• Add dynamic load and Windows Runtime metadata samples
• Fix an annoying bug with WindowsDeleteString usage
• Add more tests and restructure code
• More library-level documentation
• Add script for generating classes

1.6.2

• Clean up some of the generated documentation

1.6.1

• Lots of minor refactoring and tidy up
• Some early WinMD parsing
• Add many more unit tests

1.6.0

• Add WinRT examples, including Windows.Globalization.Calendar and Windows.Storage.Pickers.FileOpenPicker
• Add various process management and kernel APIs: CloseHandle, EnumProcesses, EnumProcessModules, GetModuleBaseName, GetModuleFileNameExt, OpenProcess, ReadProcessMemory and WriteProcessMemory.
• Add modules.dart sample
• Lots of refactoring and tidy up work.

1.5.1

• Add GetTempPath()

1.5.0

• Use automated Dart tool to generate all COM classes
• Add IFileDialogCustomize, IShellItem2, IShellItemArray, IShellItemFilter
• Fill out all the class methods
• Fix some embarrassing bugs

1.4.2

• Fix a few bugs
• Add support for desktop background management with IDesktopWallpaper

1.4.1

• Expand COM support to include IShellItemArray and various WMI classes

1.4.0

• Add COM support
• Add implementations for IOpenFileDialog, IFileDialog, IModalWindow, IShellItem, IUnknown
• Add common item dialog example

1.3.2

• Add Snake GDI example
• Add PeekMessage, MoveTo, VirtualAlloc/Free, StretchDibBits, Beep
• Tidy up code and test

1.3.1

• Add RegisterWindowMessage
• Fix bugs in ACCEL and FINDREPLACE structs
• Fix various bugs in Notepad example

1.3.0

• Add notepad example
• Add 20+ new APIs for common dialogs, message sending, accelerators, menus, fonts and GDI object manipulation
• Fix APIs to be 32-bit safe
• Fix some minor bugs

1.2.6

• Add window enumeration (FindWindowEx, EnumWindows, IsWindowVisible, GetWindowText, GetWindowTextLength) and example

1.2.5

• Added Flutter example
• Added common dialog example

1.2.4

• Added volume management APIs

1.2.3

• Add scrolling APIs and example
• Add 'new' known folder API
• Add some basic unit tests

1.2.2

• Add known folder plus GUID classes

1.2.1

• Added SendInput, Sleep and ShellExecute

1.2.0

• Implemented a good sample of GDI calls
• Added support for timers
• Added virtual keyboard constants
• Added a GDI paint sample
• Added a more comprehensive sample game (Tetris)

1.1.1

• Add class styles
• Match recommended package structure per pub.dev

1.1.0

• Added MessageBox and console APIs

1.0.0

• Initial version