vaginessa / pushbullet-desktop-app

A stub of a desktop app for Pushbullet. WARNING: this is incomplete.

PushBullet desktop app stub

Introduction

Remember this post? I'm the author of that app. Unfortunately I didn't have the time to finish it but I'm sharing the sourcecode, which is a VS 2010 C# project, since it could help the authors to implement some things I did.

What is working

• Pushing files with the contextual extension.
• Multiple devices.
• Per-user configuration.

What is not working

• Automatic installation of the contextual extension. In src/PushBullet/PushBulletExt/deploy-extension you can find a register.bat script which registers the extension, along with an unregister.bat. You need to copy the DLL of the extension with the libraries and then run the scripts.
• Hotkeys. There's quite a bit of code about hotkeys, but I didn't manage to finish it. You can ignore that part (it should not cause any issues)

Explanation of the projects

There are four (4) different projects:

• PushBullet, which is the main project. It contains the Upload and the API key selection GUIs. It also contains a TrayManager.cs class which is not used anymore (this app was designed to run in the tray, but this isn't the case anymore).
• PushBulletAPI, which is a DLL designed to provide easy access to the PushBullet API. This contains the Newtonsoft.Json JSON library. See the inside of the class to learn about the different return types/objects, or see a live example in the PushBullet class.
• PushBulletCLI, which is a working implementation of the API as a command-line project. This is not used anymore.
• PushBulletExt, which is the contextual extension. It is based on the SharpShell library, and it is a DLL.

License

I'm releasing this stub under the BSD-2 license, which should be permissive enough. You can read the (short) text in the LICENSE file.

Note

I'm sorry if there are typos or any kind of errors, I wrote this quickly.

The .gitignore automatically removes the compiled stuff. I can upload the binaries if necessary.

Also I'd like to say a big thank you to the PushBullet authors. You made an amazing work. Keep it going!