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Dogehouse for Desktop (Baklava)

This is the desktop application for Dogehouse. It uses ElectronJS as a wrapper for dogehouse.tv and adds other native capabilities.

Features

• Notifications
• System tray
• Global keybinds
• Splash screen

How to run

On the latest additions that allow the use of global keybinds a few things have to be noted:

• Specify your Nodejs ABI number in package.json under iohook/targets

  • Run node -v and note down your nodejs version
  • Note down the NODE_MODULE_VERSION from here by referring your previouly noted down nodejs version
  • In package.json add node-%NODE_MODULE_VERSION% to iohook/targets

• Specify your electron ABI in package.json under iohook/targets

  • Run an electron app using npm run start without importing iohook (i.e. remove/comment all imports of iohook from src/electron.ts and src/util.ts)
  • Open the dev console and type process.versions.modules
  • In package.json add electron-%process.versions.modules% to iohook/targets
  • Now uncomment/add the previously removed iohook imports

• Run npm i iohook

• Run npm run start and you global keybinds (including PTT) should start working

• (Optional) Run npm run build:%YOUR_PLATFORM_CODE% and install the app from the build (located in /builds)

If you encounter any errors while building please mention it in issue #1002 or ask for help on the Discord. If you encounter any other errors make a new issue.

NOTE: I have no idea why iohook requires this but it does. And I only found iohook to be a reliable module to detect the keyup and keydown events (when app in background) for use with PTT.

Using hot reload

The electron wrapper has the capability for hot reloads during development. You can run the app in hot reload mode using npm run dev.

While in hot reload mode, any time you save changes to a ts file, the electron app will recompile and relaunch itself. To exit hot reload mode, use Ctrl+C in the console. This will however, leave the current app window open, so be sure to close that also, as it will no longer have access to hot reload. Hot reload functanality is disabled for now