https://github.com/ihameed/task-homie

https://github.com/ihameed/task-homie

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• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ihameed/task-homie
• Owner: ihameed
• License: other
• Created: 2014-10-26T22:37:44.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2014-10-26T22:54:19.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-11T10:48:07.578Z (3 months ago)
• Language: C++
• Size: 125 KB
• Stars: 50
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 8
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.txt
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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README

        
task-homie is a tiny Windows applet that completely hides auto-hidden

taskbars, such that the edge of the screen containing the taskbar is no longer

a giant unusable ~ danger zone ~.

  __

 /..\

 \_O/

Usage:

Acquire win2k+. Run task-homie.exe. Aggressively smash the left or right

windows key to summon the taskbar and start menu.

Build:

Get a recent copy of premake 4 and a copy of Visual Studio 2013. Punch your

keyboard until an executable comes out.

Known Issues:

task-homie leaks two USER handles every time it receives a "TaskbarCreated"

broadcast message if the hooking target thread no longer exists (this can

happen if explorer crashes/is terminated and is later restarted). When this

happens, the "UnhookWindowsHookEx" call fails without modifying the last-error

code.  As a workaround, task-homie will restart on receipt of a

"TaskbarCreated" message.

C++?

:(

I regret having contributed to the existence of more C++ software (I initially

wrote this in F#), but starting the entire .NET RTS in the hook target process

for a hook as trivial as this is overkill!