V1! (last devlog before ship?)

Wew, I should have probably made a devlog in between my last one!

Windows support

I have added Windows support! Fun fact, I hate working with the Windows API, and I’ve just learned that!
In fairness, it’s a littleee bit awkward working with an API that is very obviously native to C, even if the Rust library gives it some Rustiness, but still, I dislike it. Greatly. Anyways, the important part is it works! And I had to use an undocumented Windows API to do a basic task (setting the default audio device). Nice. Cool! Awesome.
(i’ve been trying to switch to Linux for a reason)
Thankfully, someone already implemented that in the com-policy-config crate so I don’t have to find and try to convert a header file myself.

Saving the config!

After Windows support was done, the rest was relatively easy! Tauri has another plugin that makes it a little bit easier to manage a JSON store file and make it accessible to anything that has an AppHandle. config.json now stores the selected swap device and keybind, and these get automatically reloaded on startup. Lovely!

oh hey uh, how are we building this thing, exactly?

I use NixOS as my main operating system, so I already made a default.nix and shell.nix for running here. However, it doesn’t seem I can properly compile the regular bundles for .deb., .rpm, and AppImages (easily, anyway), and it would be tedious for every release anyways! Thankfully, tauri-action already exists, too! I made a GitHub Actions workflow that will compile and publish installers for both Windows and Linux when I make a new release. It’s pretty neat stuff, actually!

README, After All

This also means I finally took the time to make a nice README. It was nice to take a small step back to kind of overview this project.
A fun little over-engineered thing this is, something that could have stayed a CLI app with only Linux support and nobody would have blinked, but here we are!
It’s definitely been good practice for both my backend (Rust!) and frontend skills. I will definitely be using Tauri again in the future!

Hello, from v1.0.0! (and Windows!)