win32 2.2.2

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

2.2.2

• Add Windows Spooler library support.

2.2.1

• Add initial support for the Windows Socket library (winsock2).

2.2.0

• Fixes convertToHString to return an int, since HSTRINGs are handles. This is a breaking change for any apps that use WinRT APIs, but given the limited availability of WinRT classes that fall into this category, updating only the minor version.
• Add low-level Device IO and structured storage APIs and diskinfo.dart sample.

2.1.5

• Add smart card reader support.

2.1.4

• Add helper functions for COM along with extra documentation.

2.1.3

• Fix bug in shell COM APIs.
• Add examples for shortcut creation and named pipes.

2.1.2

• Add serial port comms APIs
• Add additional shell COM APIs

2.1.1

• Work around FFI regression in Dart master and dev builds.

2.1.0

• Upgrade to Dart 2.13, which supports packed structs and arrays in FFI. This enables support for more automated generation of structs, which in turn increases development velocity for this package.

• Other APIs included in this release include:

  • More complete Bluetooth support
  • MIDI support
  • High DPI support
  • IDispatch support
  • Many more core user32 APIs

2.0.5

• Add some debugging APIs to allow enumerating exported symbols, along with a sample (dump.dart).
• Free memory allocations in samples.
• Use latest version of Win32 metadata from winmd package, and generate most structs automatically using this metadata.
• Generate COM helper classes wherever metadata supports it, instead of requiring a manual decorator.
• Add about 20 new kernel32 APIs.

2.0.4

• Add network events, thanks to a contribution from @sunbreak.
• Update COM vtable generation, thanks to a contribution from @bonukai.
• Update to use the latest WinMD package.

2.0.3

• Add spellchecking COM APIs, thanks to a contribution from @bonukai.

2.0.2

• Adds named pipe APIs to support projects like TerminalStudio/pty.

2.0.1

• Adds a demo of custom window shapes.
• Removes Windows Metadata classes (now in the winmd package). This is a breaking change, but it's not anticipated to be a problem since these classes are only used for code generation.
• Update to latest WinMD package
• Add shell folder APIs
• Add registry key APIs

2.0.0

• Stable version w/ sound null safety.
• Update to ffi 1.0.0 and address breaking changes.
• 100+ new APIs in kernel32, user32, ole32, advapi32, shell32 and gdi32, as well as a series of COM interfaces.
• Rework API wrapper to use functions instead of properties
• New JSON-based metadata format for Win32 APIs that supports API sets and minimum versions, and more robust tooling for loading and saving metadata
• Migrated Windows Runtime APIs into core unmanaged metadata
• Add waveOut* APIs from winmm.dll (thanks @slightfoot)
• Make VARIANT more representative of the underlying type.
• Add DLGTEMPLATE and DLGITEMTEMPLATE structs with extension methods.
• Add more tests.
• Add dialog box example and supporting extension methods
• New shell tray notification example (thanks @ilopX)
• Better documentation of constants and callbacks

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