added sending closing event message to settings windows (#7)
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Reviewed-on: #7
Co-authored-by: Aleksandr Neychev <alexnejchev73@gmail.com>
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the layout tracking. No UI, and it must stay that way — whatever lands there lands
in the background process.
The connection between the two is `settings.json` and nothing else. The window
writes it — whole, into a temporary file moved into place in one step — and then
Everything the window has to say to the agent goes through `settings.json` and
nothing else. The window writes it — whole, into a temporary file moved into place in one step — and then
posts a registered window message to the agent, which re-reads. The message carries
no data: sending the changed values along would make the file stop being the only
source of truth. An agent that is not running is a normal case — the window works the
same. Nobody watches the file: it has one writer, and that writer speaks up.
The one word in the other direction is the last one: Exit in the tray menu asks an
open settings window to close before the agent goes, so that no window is left
belonging to nothing. It travels as a named event of the session rather than a
window message — the agent starts that process and deliberately keeps no handle to
it. Nobody listening is the usual case, and it is a normal answer.
## The tray
The settings window is a guest on the screen rather than the app itself: it shows
up after the installation and whenever the icon or its menu is asked for. Both
buttons in its title bar mean what they say — the window closes and its process
ends. The way out of the app itself is the Exit item of the tray menu.
ends. The way out of the app itself is the Exit item of the tray menu — and it
closes an open settings window along with the agent.
The menu of the icon is a system one, drawn by Windows. Its captions still follow
the language chosen in the settings, but the theme no longer reaches it: a WPF