Feature getOpenWindows to have list of open windows

[miniben-90]

Why

In my case I need to have access to the active window and the list of open windows.

Changes

• Some codes moved into functions to avoid duplication of it.
• Add to all systems some codes to have access to the informations.
• getOpenWindows (promise version) and getOpenWindowsSync (sync version) return a Map<string, {processes: activeWindow.Result[]}>

[sindresorhus]

Thanks for working on this. Make sure you look over your own diff and try to improve it. This will save me time so I don't have to point out lots of nitpick stuff.

[sindresorhus]

Maybe you can find some inspiration here: https://github.com/glsorre/amethystwindows/blob/340d54a076b8c04e74b5f096af7c34b5c2f41ba5/AmethystWindows/DesktopWindowsManager/DesktopWindow.cs#L28-L36

And here: https://github.com/newlooper/VirtualSpace/blob/815e5dc8f10dcec99b2ab997e2053261cb6fe2ad/VirtualSpace/VirtualDesktop/Filters.cs#L26-L33

Basically, this search: https://github.com/search?q=dwmapi.DwmGetWindowAttribute+DWMWA_CLOAKED&type=code

[sindresorhus]

And: https://github.com/adamecr/AppSwitcherBar/blob/b73103e376b2e06262c94e0ec99b7a980fea64c3/readme.md?plain=1#L275-L283

[miniben-90]

Hi,

I added the modification to filter for win32 system like your links (I use this https://stackoverflow.com/a/62126899 to help me with the condition). He's code work like alt+tab of Microsoft and return only window who are not cloaked or it's not a window toolbar.

Can you be more specific about your links?

[sindresorhus]

Can you be more specific about your links?

The projects I linked to are mature and have a lot of code to handle edge-cases. We can borrow some of that, which are the lines I linked to.

[miniben-90]

I make some big breaking change for windows cause of a issue with ffi-napi end Workers. I change it for a native node addon (with node-addon-api, node-gyp).

I also change your main.yml to update version and add node 18 to the test.

I created a release.yml file to generate binary for windows at release (it's important to change version of package.json before a release).

For your previous links, it's not logical to filter with className (example with terminal), I just keep the idea of the last link.

[sindresorhus]

This is starting to look good. Although, I'm not super excited to have to maintain C++ code. I would much have preferred Rust and https://napi.rs. Which would have made the code easier to maintain, read, and build.

[miniben-90]

This is starting to look good. Although, I'm not super excited to have to maintain C++ code. I would much have preferred Rust and https://napi.rs. Which would have made the code easier to maintain, read, and build.

Unfortunately, I don't have time to learn a new language at the moment. But you are welcome to make the change on the basis of the main.cc :).

[sindresorhus]

@miniben-90 The binary publish step failed: https://github.com/sindresorhus/active-win/actions/runs/3686184879

[sindresorhus]

@miniben-90 Different failure: https://github.com/sindresorhus/active-win/actions/runs/3686737172