active-window-title

NodeJS addon that returns the current foreground window title

Build

Run npm run build with the cli argument --arch to choose the architecture to build the addon with. Generally you will need to build both ia32 and x64 for windows.

Usage

Place activeWindowTitle.node from build/Releases into your project and require it. Call the title function using title().

const activeWindow = require('./activeWindowTitle.node')

//Display title of current foreground window
console.log(activeWindow.title()) 

Module

The activeWindowTitle Folder is also a module in itself that has prebuilt binaries for x64 and ia32 architecture, with a wrapper to select the appropriate one for the current node environment. A rebuild should not be necessary for future node versions.

const activeWindow = require('activeWindowTitle')

//Display title of current foreground window
console.log(activeWindow.title()) 

Tera Proxy

Since Proxy unloads all modules and their child modules, the re-requiring of node native addons will throw error. A workaround is to use the global namespace, thus, use this method to require this addons in your projects if you are creating modules for Tera Proxy. Since a few of my modules have used the activeWindow variable in the global namespace, use this same variable too, to reduce namespace pollution. You can require the module like so:

if(!global.activeWindow) global.activeWindow = require(./activeWindowTitle.node)

console.log(activeWindow.title())

Advice

Advice is appreciated if anyone is experienced in creating a simple interface to use windows native methods in nodeJS using no dependencies.