null-widget

A Windows API and C++ based Windows widget application.

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Installation

You can install null-widget by compiling the project files, or by downloading and running the binaries present in release and running them.

Strictly for Windows, obviously.

To compile, run

  git clone https://github.com/ad4rsh2701/null-widget
  cd null-widget

  cmake -G "Ninja" -S . -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
  cmake --build build

For development, always use -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug flag while building.

null-widget successfully compiles using the llvm clang compiler, I cannot garuntee if it will compile using other compilers like GCC or MSVC ...yet.

And to close the widget, right click to find the close option.

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Features.. I guess?

A nifty little floating window on your screen with Day and Time. What more could you possibly need?

• Low memory usage
• Multiple fonts support
• To-Do integration (Soon)

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Known Issues

1. Lack of Cross-Compiler Support

• Yea... only Clang++ is truly supported, if it works on others then, do let me know.
• Will provide cross-compiler compilation if I feel like it.

Please refere the Issues section for latest issues

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FAQs

1. Why?
   • I felt like it, and actually, the main idea is to integrate my tasks present in my todo.txt to be displayed in that widget in some form.
   • I have a general idea of the concept, and with this, the implementation too, so working towards that.
2. Why not switch to Linux?
   • Good Question
3. Is this AI-generated or AI-assisted?
   • No, it's not AI generated, however, AI was used to get answers to questions like "why does WM_CREATE expand to integer 2 and what does it do?" or "what is lpfnWndProc??!".
   • AI was also used to create a basic template/idea code at the start, which is present here if you want to check it out, I obviously had no idea of this Macro abomination called WindowsAPI