Windows port

[anishathalye]

A couple people have asked about a Windows port, so here's an issue where that can be discussed

[oliverguhr]

Looks like there is a Windows API function to set the brightness. MSDN SetMonitorBrightness

[anishathalye]

I don't have any Windows development experience, so it would be great if there's someone else who wants to build a Windows version.

(it shouldn't be too complicated, you can probably copy-paste most of the core logic from the Mac OS code cause it's basically C code)

[Braunson]

I wonder if this can be done with the Electron framework.

Edit; Yeah I get it, Electron is a hog and not ideal for this.

[chris-morgan]

@Braunson … and watch resource usage skyrocket. This is the sort of thing that should use near enough to no memory—I’m guessing it borrows a screen buffer rather than even needing to allocate enough space for that, so we’re probably talking hundreds of kilobytes only, not dozens or scores of megabytes as it would do with Electron. CPU usage would also be inordinate if you were implementing it via Electron.

There’s a place for things like Electron. This is definitely not it.

[AlaaAlShammaa]

Here's a windows version of the app: https://github.com/AlaaAlShammaa/Luminance

[anishathalye]

@AlaaAlShammaa added it to the list of related projects

[AlaaAlShammaa]

@anishathalye Thank you very much 👍

[anishathalye]

Closing this issue due to inactivity. If there are any other ports of Lumen that work on Windows, we should add them to the README.