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Sep 18, 2020

Hostbridge works again on Windows hosted

In the latest months, HostBridge for Linux gained several new features, among them the ability to scan your Linux distribution for installed applications and integrate them automatically. This led to a huge quantity of changes to HostBridge scripts and, although I tried to keep them as much platform-agnostic as I could, with no surprise at all they basically broke compatibility with Windows hosted version. While Linux HostBridge got better and better, Windows one was stuck at the same point it was with Icaros 2.2.7, and it also stopped working. After all, there were little chances I could bring forward the two versions at the same time. Moreover, most of the Linux part of HostBridge is work of Nicola Scendoni, and now I have to port what he did for Linux to Windows. Microsoft's OS is much different and has its own tool and its ways to manage things. For instance, .lnk files have their own encoding and icons are stored within the executables, so writing a procedure to import the Star Menu programs into HostBridge is really a matter of parsing them and extracting the right icons, when available. I have now found a program called lnkanalyser from Mark Woan which can be very helpful and, as far as I know, it should be open source and free to use and redistribute. So, crossing fingers, there is a chance Windows users will have a better HostBridge too, at least at the same feature-level of the Linux one. 




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