experimental windows support

jondot commented 13 years ago

Hi,

I think this pull request deserves some detail since windows and *nix (linux,darwin) worlds are much apart.

So here it is -- an experimental windows support, during which i've ruled out using powershell, Console2, PwrCmd as consoles (since some of those have tabs), and went with the plain cmd.exe console (which doesn't have tabs).

Some of the differences root in these details:

Currently, this implementation supports tabs-as-windows, there are no tabs in cmd.exe.
No capture.
Terminitor uses commands which are hardcoded (such as clear, open) -- these are not available under win32, so i've set up an internal translation map for these. As an example, clear => cls. You should be aware of that.

To Terminitor devs, i've changed the core tests support to remove fakefs (for some reason it cries about missing constant in windows). And i've expaneded the in_platform macro to include several options, a better way would be to test against a regex but i didn't want to stray away from the original impl too much. If you would examine this let me know if you want me to change / modify in any way. Whatever would make you feel more comfertable.

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To win32 devs examining this, i've tried (among other methods) using wscipt shell and pipes as methods of controlling cmd.exe and other consoles. Eventually i've settled at win32api process and window calls. You can also notice there is a tiny sleep when spawning a new process in order to enumerate through windows and get a HWND. I'd really be interested in better ways to do this.

All in all i've used and enjoyed it so far on Win7, Vista 32 and 64 bit. You can also find decent tests, which spawns (and kills, no worries) a real window in the process, so they're dirty in a sense.

Thanks

achiurizo commented 13 years ago

i've temporarily pull these commits into branch jondot-win32. Once I review the changes and check everything out, i'll merge them back to master. thanks

achiurizo commented 13 years ago

as of d5f7c119a4d380a6c27eddb2d0e9f78c986f34f0, this commit has been merged into master and released under version 0.5.0. thanks!

jondot commented 13 years ago

thanks achiu, i'll keep an eye :)

achiurizo / consular

experimental windows support #66