node-win32api

Asynchronous, non-blocking win32api bindings for node.js .

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NAME

node-win32api - Asynchronous, non-blocking win32api bindings for node.js .

USAGE

Install with npm install win32api.

var win32con = require('win32con');
var win32api = require('win32api');
var MessageBoxA = win32api.new('user32', 'MessageBoxA', 'LPPL', 'L');
var result = MessageBoxA.call(win32api.hWnd, 'Hello, Win32API', 'test message',
  win32con.MB_ICONINFORMATION | win32con.MB_OK);
win32api.print(result);
var MessageBoxW = win32api.new('user32', 'MessageBoxW', 'LPPL', 'L');
var result = MessageBoxW.call(win32api.hWnd, 'from utf8string', 'auto convert',
  win32con.MB_ICONINFORMATION | win32con.MB_OK);
win32api.print(result);

FEATURES

API

See the API documentation in the wiki.

BUILDING

This project uses VC++ 2008 Express (or later) and Python 2.6 (or later) . (When using Python 2.5, it needs multiprocessing 2.5 back port .)

Bulding also requires node-gyp to be installed. You can do this with npm:

npm install -g node-gyp

To obtain and build the bindings:

git clone git://github.com/idobatter/node-win32api.git
cd node-win32api
node-gyp configure
node-gyp build

You can also use npm to download and install them:

npm install win32api

TESTS

mocha is required to run unit tests.

npm install -g mocha
nmake /a test

CONTRIBUTORS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Inspired WIN32API

LICENSE

node-win32api is BSD licensed.