win-vind v5.0 beta test

[pit-ray]

Thank you for your patience.

I have fundamentally rewritten the entire core key mapping system because win-vind has long maintained a complex and unmanageable mapping system and I had been unable to respond to many issues.

This makes it almost incompatible with the previous win-vind, but it allows for many things and is extremely simple to set up.

However, since the changes are extremely extensive, I cannot find the bugs completely on my own.

If anyone would like to contribute to the development, please try the new win-vind 5.0.0-beta from the link below and report any strange behavior in this thread. Please include reproduction steps in your report. Pull requests to master are also fine.

If you are participating, please read the change log in the release carefully.

https://github.com/pit-ray/win-vind/releases/tag/v5.0.0-beta1
https://github.com/pit-ray/win-vind/releases/tag/v5.0.0-beta2
https://github.com/pit-ray/win-vind/releases/tag/v5.0.0-beta3
https://github.com/pit-ray/win-vind/releases/tag/v5.0.0-beta4
https://github.com/pit-ray/win-vind/releases/tag/v5.0.0-beta5

ToDo List for production release

• Integration test
• The documents for v5 in v5docs branch.

[pit-ray]

When you input the command consisted only system key (e.g. <esc-right>), the parser will jam with them in beta1.
I fixed the problem as beta2.

Please try it instead of beta1.
https://github.com/pit-ray/win-vind/releases/tag/v5.0.0-beta2
https://github.com/pit-ray/win-vind/releases/tag/v5.0.0-beta3

[gilbh]

Just to make sure: I downloaded the chocolatey installer and copy-pasted the files in C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin\

The About shows 5.0.0. Is this indeed 5.0.2?

[pit-ray]

It's partially correct. This version is v5.0.0-beta2, so it shows 5.0.0.

win-vind adopts [major].[minor].[patch] style version format.
If the production release's 5.0.0 has some bugs and we fix them, it will be 5.0.1.

[gilbh]

I see. So I guess the portable version is the latest patch of v5.0.2

I will work with that.

[pit-ray]

Anyway, as long as the download source is correct, you should be fine.
The About's version is not for the beta version, only for the production version.

[pit-ray]

I have released beta3.
https://github.com/pit-ray/win-vind/releases/tag/v5.0.0-beta3

In beta3, I have deployed scripts in tests/runtime directory to automatically run the test in Python. If anyone can write Python, it would be helpful to add test cases (refer to the sample codes). To execute the test, please read documents in tests/README.md.

I plan test cases for each function like the following. Ideally, one case per function.

• Mouse movement
• Mouse jumping
• Window operation (create your own GUI in Python using TK or Qt and get parameters about the window.)
• Editor emulation. (create your own text area in Python to get cursor position)

I plan the target release date to be the end of this month.

Thanks.

[pit-ray]

I released the beta4, please check it.
https://github.com/pit-ray/win-vind/releases/tag/v5.0.0-beta4

[pit-ray]

v5 will be a modern icon like the following!

v1 ~ v4

v5

[pit-ray]

I released beta5 including new icon.
https://github.com/pit-ray/win-vind/releases/tag/v5.0.0-beta5

[pit-ray]

Release today. Thank you for beta testing.