TASKS.md

NutJS Windows Control Implementation Tasks

High Priority Tasks 🚨

Security Implementation

• Input validation
  • Sanitize window titles and paths
  • Validate coordinate ranges
  • Check string input lengths
  • Add rate limiting for rapid operations
• Resource access protection
  • Implement proper error handling for permission issues
  • Add timeout handling for long-running operations
  • Monitor and limit system resource usage

Critical Integration Testing

• Core cross-module interactions
  • Test keyboard + mouse combinations
  • Test window focus + keyboard input
  • Test clipboard + keyboard operations
• System state management
  • Implement proper cleanup after operations
  • Add state restoration for failed operations
  • Handle system resource cleanup

Medium Priority Tasks 📝

Error Handling Improvements

• Enhanced error reporting
  • Add detailed error messages with context
  • Implement error categorization system
  • Add recovery suggestions for common errors
• Resource management
  • Add keyboard state restoration
  • Implement mouse position cleanup
  • Add window state restoration

Performance Optimization

• Resource monitoring
  • Add memory usage tracking
  • Implement CPU utilization checks
  • Add performance metrics collection
• Operation optimization
  • Optimize rapid input sequences
  • Improve multiple window operations
  • Enhance large clipboard operations

Completed Features ✅

Window Management

• List all windows
• Get active window
• Get window title
• Get window size and position
• Focus window
• Resize window
• Reposition window
• [-] Minimize window (unsupported in libnut-core)
• [-] Restore window (unsupported in libnut-core)

Mouse Control

• Basic mouse movement and clicking
• Mouse scroll (up/down)
• Mouse drag operations
• Set mouse movement speed
• Cursor position tracking

Keyboard Control

• Basic keyboard input
• Key combinations support
• Key holding/releasing operations

Integration Features

• Clipboard operations
  • Text operations: get, set, check, clear
• Screen capture and size detection
• Basic active window detection

Testing Implementation

• Keyboard module unit tests
• Screen module unit tests
• Tools handler unit tests

New Roadmap Features 🎯

Automation Framework

• Add macro recording capability
  • Record mouse movements and clicks
  • Record keyboard inputs
  • Save and load macro sequences
• Implement action scheduling
  • Add time-based triggers
  • Support event-based triggers
  • Add conditional execution

Enhanced Window Management

• Add window pattern matching
  • Support regex for window titles
  • Add process name matching
  • Implement window class matching
• Window state tracking
  • Track window position history
  • Monitor window size changes
  • Detect window state changes

Advanced Integration

• Add OCR capabilities
  • Text recognition in screen regions
  • Support for multiple languages
  • Template matching for UI elements
• Process Management
  • Process start/stop control
  • Process monitoring
  • Resource usage tracking

API and Integration

• REST API interface
  • HTTP endpoints for control
  • WebSocket for real-time events
  • Authentication and access control
• Plugin system
  • Plugin architecture design
  • Hot-reload capability
  • Plugin marketplace structure

Known Limitations ⛔

• Advanced screen information (multiple monitors, DPI settings)
  • Only main display supported
  • No built-in multi-monitor support
  • Would require platform-specific implementations:
    • Windows: EnumDisplayMonitors()
    • Linux: XRandR extension
    • macOS: NSScreen API
• Window minimize/restore operations (unsupported in libnut-core)

References

• NutJS GitHub Repository: https://github.com/nut-tree/nut.js
• API Documentation: https://nutjs.dev/