adsozuan/riptop

riptop

A simple htop clone to accustom myself to modern C++.

Operating systems

• Windows 10 x64 only.

Usage

Run riptop.exe.

Press 'q' for exiting.

Press 'x' to show help.

Move in process list

• Up or 'k' key for going up.
• Down or 'j' key for going down.
• Home go to start of list.
• End go to end of list.

Column sorting

• Press key in parenthesis in column name
• Press again to change sorting order

Search process by name

1. Press '/' to show search bar.
2. Enter process name and press RETURN.
3. ESCAPE for closing search bar.

Build instructions:

Tested with Visual Studio 2019 only (may work with mingw-gcc and Cie).

Requirements

• CMake 3+
• Visual Studio 2019 (or build tools)
• NuGet for getting WIL dependency, and must be in PATH.

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
cmake --build .

Architecture overview

main -->-->-----UI thread ----------->------------------- Receives probes data -->-- Render -->-- Handle Inputs ---
        \                                                        |     |
         \                                                       ^     ^
          \                                  system_info_channel |     | processes_channel
           \                                                     ^     ^  
            \                                                     \   /
             `--Acquisition thread -->-- Acquire all probes -->-- Send probes data to UI --------------------------

External dependencies

• FTXUI library for terminal UI.
• WIL (Windows Implementation Libraries) for accessing Windows API in a modern safe C++ way.
• Catch2 for unit tests.

Similar projects and inspirations

• NTop written in C.
• bottom written in Rust.