winsafe-examples VS yatta

You might be interested in winsafe. There are a few examples how it can be used without unsafe code.

If you think this is nuts, just wait until you find out that people are writing high level, native desktop applications in pure Rust!

The easy path is just to build your structs normally, letting the burden of Rc/Arcing everything to the user. My first design was like this. Once I decided to bury this stuff inside the library, then my headaches began. But the API ends up being very ergonomic.

For example, a button click, where self.wnd is the parent window, looks like this:

Well, I can't really say it's new, but I'm working on a safe GUI API for native Win32 applications, where you can draw the windows using a WYSIWYG resource editor, like this example. And I'm having a lot of fun with it.

I used Rust to prototype a new window manager in public and I found it very productive, easy to iterate on and make large changes without worrying about breaking anything.

Thanks! I had a look through the latest commit that you pushed to grist, and I noticed you handling errors from windows-rs in a similar way as I was doing in a previous project (yatta.

In general, I feel a lot better about this code base, the choice of data structures, and particularly the added safety around how I am calling unsafe Windows APIs in cleaner ways that allow me to propagate and handle errors when responding to WinEvents or socket commands (compare this mishmash to this much cleaner module!)

I wrote my very first window manager for Windows 10 in Rust earlier this here, I built it from the ground up using the new windows-rs crate. It was my first time developing anything for Windows and I was pleasantly surprised with the quality of the MS documentation ecosystem, and I also had a lot of great example code to learn from thanks to other projects like nog.

https://github.com/LGUG2Z/yatta/commit/87bc73eaa4f6ba7d00dbab2a6fb100f060b88ed8 Creating window floating rules based on partial title matching is added with this commit

I thought you might be interested to know that I have now implemented floating rules across all workspaces for applications both by class and process name! Example is on the README: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/yatta#keybindings

I started working on yatta for Windows 10 because I was missing yabai and bspwm after I started working from a Windows 10 desktop last year.

I made a post about it on the Rust subreddit yesterday looking for more contributors: https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/lh4uyq/yatta_bsp_tili...

It's still early days, but it has automatic tiling, gap control, focus switching, directional moving and tree orientation toggling and you can use AHK or any other hotkey daemon to manage your keybindings.

You still have to build it from source at the moment, but I'm hoping to have it installable via the Scoop package manager in a month or two.

https://github.com/LGUG2Z/yatta

I spent a couple of days hacking away to get something that works on Windows 10 with the bare minimum TWM functionality that my hands are used to, and I've managed to throw together Yatta: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/yatta (there is a demo gif on the readme).