Is someone still working on this?

[LalaGhost]

Is someone still working on this? Otherwise I dont post bugs and feature requests here.

[stefansundin]

I am not actively working on it, have too many other things going on that are more important at the moment. But I could see one day when I pick this up again. But that day is not today.

[mmahmoudian]

@stefansundin Would you accept one or two maintainers to the project? There are 85 issues in this repo and 9 PRs at the time of writing this comment and it seems there is at least some interest from people who are familiar with the codebase.

If so, perhaps you can start by one or a combination of the following:

1. Pin a post in your issues that you are open to collaboration and specify the conditions and situations of healthy collaboration
2. Create a shortlist of those who are potential contributors based on the following and contact them:
   • Those who have submitted PR
   • Those with forks that have commits ahead of yours
   • Those who have been active in issues in answering others

Regarding option 2, I have done a similar analysis for another opensource repo (here, here, and here) and I can help you in creating the shortlist.

In addition to all these, I also would like to suggest having a button on the altdrag website to provide a direct link to this repo (not the release pages), or maybe add one of those "Fork me" diagonal ribbons to the top right corner of the website.

[savchenko]

@mmahmoudian , there is an ongoing discussion regarding including the functionality of AltDrag into the PowerToys: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/269

[savchenko]

Fingers crossed: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/pull/6979

[RamonUnch]

I made my own fork of AltDrag and I plan to keep development as long as I will use Windows. In this version, I removed the HoockWindows feature that was very buggy, useless unless you are using XP and forced to mix 32 and 64bit code.

My version fixes quite some Windows 10 bugs, The change log thread and downloads can be seen in the MSFN forms:

https://msfn.org/board/topic/181937-altdrag-for-nt42kxp-and-windows-7810-modified-from-stefan-sundins-altdrag/

[savchenko]

@RamonUnch , thanks for picking it up, but where is the code? Stefan has published AltDrag under GPL-v3 and all I can find at the Mega folder apart from binaries is this:

*=========================================================================*
*                        ALTDRAG for NT4 to Win10                         *
*   Modified by Raymond Gillibert from original source by Stefan Sundin   *
*                    release 1.27 (November 17, 2020)                     *
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------*
* Download: https://mega.nz/folder/mW5ExCCT#gI8DQICICk-y4FIjxaqtGg        *
* Original Stefan Sundin: https://stefansundin.github.io/altdrag/         *
*=========================================================================*

[RamonUnch]

I Added the source release in the MEGA directorry (with src sufix). Note that the source is still quite a mess...

[savchenko]

Thanks. If I might suggest a few things:

• Push your work changes into a new repository, publish it and link here
• Once it's up, gently ping @stefansundin and @AnuthaDev who is working on AltDrag PowerToys module.

From there, we have the following options:

• You keep developing your fork independently (which is fine), but have a chance to receive valuable feedback.
• You decide to join forces with @AnuthaDev and work on PowerToys module. This way your work will be vetted by someone at MS.

Your call.

[RamonUnch]

I will try to move my project to GitHub, for the moment it is just on my HDD.

I am very pleased to see this PowerToy project but, I would like to keep AltDrag as a standalone option. Plus I also use Win7 and also olders windows occasionally.

[savchenko]

I will try to move my project to GitHub

Could you please ping this thread once it's up?

I would like to keep AltDrag as a standalone option

That is totally fine. In fact, I sometimes close PowerToys, but have AltDrag running at any time I use Windows.

[RamonUnch]

Could you please ping this thread once it's up?

I will, sure.

[garoto]

FWIW, I grabbed AltDrag1.27bin.zip from your mega link, and I must say that it already behaves much better on my daily driver Windows 8.1 installatation than the pre-compiled binaries currently been made avaiable. So kudos for that and also yes for setting up a GH (or any other git frontend website of your choosing) repository, even if you don't plan to keep working on this in the nearest future, but I think it's important.

[savchenko]

@RamonUnch, ...and you might consider merging changes from build.sh#L13-L17 :)

[RamonUnch]

Here is a new AltDrag repository on GitHub, based on Stefan Sundin's Altdrag. @stefansundin and @AnuthaDev, I will work on this fork to keed this programm small, handy and independant.

https://github.com/RamonUnch/AltDrag/

New release (1.28) https://github.com/RamonUnch/AltDrag/releases

[patricknelson]

Thanks so much for this @RamonUnch! ❤️ And thank you @stefansundin for making this; I've been using it every day for years.

I didn't realize that a newer maintained version of AltDrag existed, so I've been dealing with the minor bugs that piled up over time. After about a year, I decided once more to manually check and stumbled upon your version. It'd be awesome if maybe this repository had a small notice for users who also end up landing here.

To make it super quick and easy, I whipped up a quick PR with a very basic link pointing to @RamonUnch's version. Please see #141.