R5

Cargo.toml

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 [package]
 name = "contrac"
 description = "ISP connection tracker"
-version = "0.4.0"
+version = "0.5.0"
 authors = ["John Shewchuk <[email protected]>"]
 edition = "2018"
 repository = "https://github.com/johnshew/contrac"

README.md

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 # Contrac
 
-Track your Internet Service Provider and generate a log of down time.
+Contrac monitors your Internet Service Provider and generates a log of down time.
 
 This tracker pings Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco to determine connectivity.
 
-## Notes
+This windows app is a single file .exe, with embedded resources, tray notification, and window minimization to the tray.
+
+## Installation
 
-Resources
+Copy the latest release of the exe to your computer from here
 
-#! for windows - no console
+https://github.com/johnshew/contrac/releases
 
-Should add minimimize and restore to native-windows-gui
+Since Contrac automatically writes to the log files every 5 minutes it is good to put the exe in the directory you want the logs to go.
+
+## Notes
 
+This was an interesting first project to learn Rust. Thanks to [Gabriel Dube](https://github.com/gabdube) for creating native-windows-gui, a nice toolkit for small native Win32 apps.
 
-Might want to include WS_CLIPSIBLINGS in flags.
+The graph rendering in Contrac is a hack.  Since there are currently no easy-to-use drawing capabilties with native-windows-gui, Contrac uses a collection of small image controls to represent the bars of the graph.
 
+On Windows, by default, Rust starts a console.  If you want a Windows app put the following at the top of main.rs.
 
-### Recommended Visual Studio Extensions
+``` #![windows_subsystem = "windows"] ```
+
+Here a few things that I thought about PRing into native-windows-gui:
+* Minimize and restore windows
+* Maybe enable WS_CLIPSIBLINGS in flags for controls and enable z-ordering
+* Provide more access to the nwg::win32 helper functions
+
+## Recommended Visual Studio Extensions
 
 * https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=rust-lang.rust
 * https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vadimcn.vscode-lldb
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