The Windower 5.0 (alpha)

Hello everyone,

In pursuit of greater stability, functionality, and cleaner code, we have been working on Windower v5 for the last two years and it has finally reached the point where we would like to get some feedback from the community. Some of the new features added include:

• UDP packet events

• Data sharing across addons

• Access to memory from Lua

• Better UI tools to make prettier addons

• Low level C interface through FFI

• Redesigned addon API for simpler usage

That last point does mean that v5 will not be backwards compatible, meaning none of the old addons will work in v5. But to reassure you, we will be supporting Windower v4 for the foreseeable future and keeping it updated and fix bugs, so people who do not want to switch can still play with it.

In this alpha release, we are looking for:

• Feedback from potential future developers - Do the APIs and libraries work for you?

• Basic information from potential users - Did it crash when you tried to use it? Where is your crash log? etc.

Please note that while we consider the (core) API stable enough to start a public alpha there will certainly be some changes down the road. Entire libraries are still missing, others may be changed or rewritten, so expect fluctuations at this point.

Everything you need to start is on our wiki (including various download options):
https://github.com/Windower/packages/wiki

Communication will happen primarily on our Discord server in the designated "Windower 5" channels:
https://discord.gg/aUrHCvk

You can file bug reports in the channel in there or on the issue tracker:
https://github.com/Windower/packages/issues

Thanks!