UDForge - Build desktop apps with UD

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UDForge - Build desktop apps with PowerShell Universal Dashboard https://ironmansoftware.com/udforge-build-desktop-apps-with-universal-dashboard/

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This looks like it could be very useful. Iā€™ll have to test it out and see how it goes.

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Cool! Let me know how it goes. There is lotā€™s of room for improvement. Just wanted to see if people were interested.

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This is so cool.
So how ā€œdifferentā€ is the development for UD Forge?
is it just to copy in the normal dashboard and your golden?

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The only difference right now is that it only supports a single file for the dashboard. Aside from that, you should be able to use it the same way. It doesnā€™t package UniverslDashboard with the application (yet) so youā€™ll need it on the target computer.

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This seem pretty simple to create on app from the dashboard. Below is a screen shot of the Ubetcha dashdoard app in the browser followed by a screen shot of the application created with UDForge.

Browser Instance:
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UDForge App Instance:
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Not quite sure how to package up the UDForge app though. I was expecting just the *.exe was the only file needed but there seems a dependency on ffmpeg.dll too.

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Iā€™m not 100% sure but you might need the whole output folder. I added an issue to simplify this with another tool to produce a single exe: https://github.com/ironmansoftware/ud-forge/issues/3

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BTW on the Readme.md on GitHub. It should be ā€˜Install-Moduleā€™ not ā€˜Import-Moduleā€™

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with this we can make like WYSIWYG Editor for ud

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UDForge also produces installers. I just pushed a new version that will automatically include UniversalDashboard with the package.

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Thanks. Also needs the option to include other supporting files in the package that the Dashboard app requires like XML,CSV and other config stuff.

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Just added support for it in 1.0.6: https://github.com/ironmansoftware/ud-forge#usage

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Does this not work with UD Community? I tried this out and I got an error that UD is not installed.

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It needs to be updated to check for UD Community too. No reason it couldnā€™t work with it.

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Getting more and more excited about this.

Is there any possibility of this can be run as a background app?

You know like if I wanted it to mimic the behavior of Skype where it minimizes to systray instead of closing.

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Yep. Itā€™s possible because I know Slack does that and itā€™s an Electron app. That said, no idea how to implement that. Will take some perusing for the Electron docs.

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Nice.
You know how to make a boy dream! :rofl:

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:blush:

I also made a YT video on how to use this: https://youtu.be/5Ktt5dqnGrc

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For a quick patch, I just changed the Copy-UniversalDashboard function to:

$UniversaDashboard = Get-Module -Name UniversalDashboard.community -ListAvailable

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