Gocd Tray - matroberts/GocdTray GitHub Wiki

Windows System Tray application to show go.cd pipeline status

Design Goals

• Correct reporting of go.cd status - including multistage pipelines
• No need to add and remove pipelines - new pipelines added automatically, old pipelines removed automatically
• Better highlighting of broken builds
• Better notification to build breaker

Feature List

• Alpha (1.0)

  • Basic operation showing list of pipelines and their status
  • Tray showing overall status

• Beta (1.1)

  • Sorting by Build Status and A-Z. Default to by Build Status.
  • Double click to open website in correct place
  • Opening position above tray.
  • Dark theme
  • fontawesome glyphs
  • Appveryor Build
  • Click Once Deploy
  • Set version number properly
  • Auto detect new versions available
  • autostart on reboot
  • Configure go.cd connection.
  • Password field for password
  • Test connection button and show connection errors.
  • Crash report

• Gamma (1.2)

  • Flash screen when build breaks
  • Show paused builds
  • Object style rows in tray, so can show more detailed information
  • Annoy build breaker
  • bootstrapper package seems to be the wrong version
  • pfx file - currently not signed. would a test cert be better?
  • Secure storage of credentials - is it actually necessary https://weblogs.asp.net/jongalloway/encrypting-passwords-in-a-net-app-config-file
  • Force build from the tray

• Later

  • Multi go.cd sources

Resources

• System Tray Application using WPF https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1173686/A-Csharp-System-Tray-Application-using-WPF-Forms
• WPF Command Pattern with MVVM https://www.codeproject.com/Tips/813345/Basic-MVVM-and-ICommand-Usage-Example
• WPF Styling https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/wpf/controls/styling-and-templating
• WPF Window Chrome https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6792275/how-to-create-custom-window-chrome-in-wpf/27845491#27845491
• Click Once Deploy
  • https://dustinoprea.com/2016/05/09/creating-a-clickonce-application-in-visual-studio-2015/
  • https://refactorsaurusrex.com/post/2015/how-to-host-a-clickonce-installer-on-github/
  • https://www.jdibble.co.uk/blog/building-and-deploying-clickonce-applications-with-appveyor/
• Three types of WPF styling
  • https://michaelscodingspot.com/2016/12/24/explicit-implicit-and-default-styles-in-wpf/
• Datagrid styling
  • https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/586132/WPF-DataGrid-Custommization-using-Style-and-Templa
• Notification Area
  • Need code signing to preserve the icon https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/asklar/2012/03/06/system-tray-notification-area-icons/
  • Cleanup https://winaero.com/blog/fix-notification-area-system-tray-icons-are-messed-up-in-windows-10/
• Font awesome to icon converter
  • https://gauger.io/fonticon/
• Eigengrau
  • https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigengrau
• Hammer sound
  • https://freesound.org/people/blukotek/sounds/337816/