Spike: Find what will be the best GUI library (C++) for this software.

[hetulbhatt]

This software is not UI intensive - so we need a light GUI library in order to have basic form controls and run in tray (background) functionality.

Find - by what margin will the bundle size of the software increase. It is currently standing at ~3 MB statically linked compiled exe.

[acinis]

I was going to suggest FLTK, but it doesn't seem to support tray icons (see https://www.fltk.org/str.php?L3486).

If you don't plan to support other platforms (at least for now), I think native Windows API is best bet for minimal - but functional - user interface. Small and efficient.

[hetulbhatt]

Thanks, @acinis! Even I was thinking of Win32 - just wanted to know whether there is a better way to do it with lesser boilerplate.

[acinis]

If we look at file size and external dependecies I don't think that there is something better than native API.

Also in apps like KeyFlow some features can be hard to implement or even not possible in frameworks.

I think I can find some spare time this or next week and make some basic GUI in Win32 API so you can decide if you like it.

[hetulbhatt]

Feel free to go ahead @acinis. Let me know if you want to discuss the wireframeing before commencing the development.