Aerial: Create New Project Using Archetype

Since 0.0.5 version Aerial has an ability to generate Java projects from archetypes to get sample working project quickly. In this post I'll describe the steps for doing this.

Sirius: Adding new component Demo

Here is the demo showing how to add new component to the Sirius platform. The example demonstrates how to create server module from the scratch and how to apply client for this.

Sirius (Java): writing Win32 client library + Live Demo

Recently I described the creation of Win32 server part and at the end I wrote the function which finds the main window by specified attributes and gets the handle for it. This is quite fundamental thing as once we have a handle of the window we can send any messages to it simulating various GUI interaction actions. At the same time the server side library contains only set of functions as Win32 API is all about the set of functions. But it's too raw for writing tests. It's much more convenient to apply some object model to the window objects. So, it requires some effort on the client side. In this article I'll describe the process of Win32 client API creation. I'll create classes interacting with top level windows and create some sample test to demonstrate how that functionality works.

The final output will contain the functionality interacting with top level Win32 windows as well as some demo showing how to work with it.