Daily-Commit-Tracker

What I learned...

Throughout creating this project I learned how to call API's in C++, properly connect libraries through the tasks.json, properly use relative paths, project file structures, use the windows tray. I am still learning to use Make to statically link the files and store them in the .exe file directly but that will be done in the private repo.

Overall what this project taught me most was how effective using C++ is for creating real deployable software.

This Repository as Been Archived!

I am planning on selling this software in the future. It wouldn't really be a good idea to have this code public while I work on it lol. This project started out as a way to learn C++ and has turned into a lot more.

Purpose

This is a tray icon that appears green if the user has done a GitHub commit today. It appears gray if the user has not. You must give the application permissions through a GitHub token. The user must also install the necessary libraries and more. I will fix these problems in the next release!

App Installation

Github Access Token

If you want to count commits for private repositories use this method

1. Go to Github Developer Settings
2. Click Generate new token (classic)
3. Name the token
4. Set the expiration to any time.

• Longer experiration: less hassle
• Shorter expiration: more secure

5. Under select scopes check [X]repo:status
6. Generate Token
7. Place your token in the "TOKEN.env" file

Binary Installation / Instructions

libcurl

1. Download libcurl curl-8.10.1

• Site Link
• Download Link

2. Extract zip file
3. Open the extracted folder and drag it into this folder

• Note: It's inside the unzipped folder with the same name

4. Run curl.exe inside bin\
5. Add the bin folder to your system environment variables under path

• {Whatever path you need}\Daily-Commit-Tracker\bin\curl-8.10.1_1-win64-mingw\bin

6. I added this functionality already but if you want to know where I got it: Make a cacert.pem file and place it in the Daily-Commit-Tracker folder

• Site Link
• Download Link

Daily-Commit-Tracker | lib | | curl-8.10.1_1 (folder) | | | bin |README.md

If you want to change directory make sure you update the environment variables and the .vscode/tasks.json

nlohmann

1. Download nlohmann\json.hpp

• Site Link
• Download Link

2. Place it in the nlohmann folder

shell32.lib

1. Add "-lshell32", to tasks.json

Release Creation

I downloaded Inno from here Site Link

Other

Adding the application to startup

1. Win+R Windows Key + R
2. input: shell:startup
3. Place a LINK/shortcut to the main.exe file in this folder
   • if it isn't a link/shortcut this will not work

• After this it should open on startup although I am not certain lol
• (I will try and make a way for the user to press a button and do this)
• Example: C:\Users\[YourUserName]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

Completed To-Do

1. Create anything in the taskbar tray
2. Implement taskbar changes to code
3. Fix file structure
4. Create method to type in or change information on first startup
5. Add an icon for when no connection
6. Change file paths to be based on the root folder to allow running the .exe to be consistent.
7. Make Private Repository to add this to my patreon

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