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Talon 97fa659422 feat(windows): UI overhaul -- toolbar, unified log, PM windows, channel counts, output volume

- Voice actions (Join Voice, Share Screen Audio) moved to a ToolStrip toolbar and
  a new Voice menu in the menu bar; removed from the bottom voice panel
- Activity log and chat log collapsed into a single RichTextBox (rtbLog); activity
  events appear in gray, chat messages in default color
- Private messaging reworked: each conversation opens in its own modeless
  PrivateMessageForm instead of sharing the main chat log via a scope dropdown;
  cboScope removed; main compose bar always sends to the current channel
- New "Messages -> New Private Message..." menu item (Ctrl+P) opens a UserPickerDialog
  listing all connected server users (not just the current channel) so you can PM
  anyone on the server
- Channel tree now shows live user counts, e.g. "General (3)" -- counts sourced from
  the existing _users dictionary which already tracks all server users with channel IDs
- Global output volume slider (TrackBar, 0-100, default 80) added to the right panel;
  wired to new vc_set_output_volume C ABI function that applies a master gain multiplier
  in the audio engine playback callback after mixing all streams
- vc_set_output_volume added end-to-end: voicecat.h, audio_engine.h/.cpp,
  client.h/.cpp, voicecat.cpp, NativeMethods.cs, VoiceCatClient.cs
- Documented Windows PowerShell ctest requirement in AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md:
  MinGW binaries exit 0xc0000139 in Git Bash; always run ctest/.exe via PowerShell

22/22 ctest green (PowerShell); dotnet build 0 warnings.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-06-20 14:24:54 +02:00

VoiceCat.App

feat(windows): UI overhaul -- toolbar, unified log, PM windows, channel counts, output volume

2026-06-20 14:24:54 +02:00

VoiceCat.Interop

feat(windows): UI overhaul -- toolbar, unified log, PM windows, channel counts, output volume

2026-06-20 14:24:54 +02:00

VoiceCat.Interop.Tests

feat(audio): per-stream mix controls in Windows client + vc_get_remote_stream getter

2026-06-18 02:06:44 +02:00

Directory.Build.props

feat(M4): Windows WinForms client, TOFU identity pinning, VAD threshold + always-on mode

2026-06-17 00:35:16 +02:00

README.md

build(cmake): clean up presets, add release/apple presets, cross-platform triplets

2026-06-18 03:16:01 +02:00

VoiceCat.slnx

feat(M4): Windows WinForms client, TOFU identity pinning, VAD threshold + always-on mode

2026-06-17 00:35:16 +02:00

README.md

VoiceCat — Windows client

WinForms (.NET 10 LTS) UI over voicecat.dll (MinGW-built libvoicecat shared library).

Prerequisites

Tool	Version	Notes
.NET SDK	10.0.x	`dotnet --version` should report `10.0.*`
CMake	3.25+	For building the C++ DLL
MinGW-w64 / MSYS2 UCRT64	GCC 13+	`C:\tools\msys64\ucrt64` is the expected location
vcpkg	any	`VCPKG_ROOT` env var must point to a bootstrapped clone

Build order

1. Build the server (for testing)

cmake --preset dev
cmake --build --preset dev --target voicecat-server

2. Build the DLL

cmake --preset windows-client
cmake --build --preset windows-client

Output: build/windows-client/bin/voicecat.dll

Verify no MinGW runtime dependencies remain:

& "C:\tools\msys64\ucrt64\bin\objdump.exe" -p build/windows-client/bin/voicecat.dll |
    Select-String "DLL Name"

Expected: only Windows system DLLs (KERNEL32.dll, WS2_32.dll, BCRYPT.dll, etc.). If libgcc_s_seh-1.dll, libstdc++-6.dll, or libwinpthread-1.dll appear, the -static-libgcc -static-libstdc++ -static -lwinpthread link flags in core/CMakeLists.txt are not taking effect — check the CMake log for the VOICECAT_BUILD_SHARED+WIN32 branch.

3. Build the C# solution

cd clients/windows
dotnet build VoiceCat.slnx

The app's Directory.Build.props copies voicecat.dll from ../../build/windows-client/bin/ into the output directory automatically on every build.

Running manually

# Terminal 1 — start the server
./build/dev/bin/voicecat-server.exe --name "My Server"

# Terminal 2 — launch the client
dotnet run --project clients/windows/VoiceCat.App/VoiceCat.App.csproj

On first connect to a new server:

Enter 127.0.0.1 as the host (not localhost — Windows resolves localhost to ::1 first, and while the server now dual-stacks, 127.0.0.1 is cleaner for local testing).
The server identity dialog will appear. The TLS leaf-cert SHA-256 fingerprint is shown; accept to pin it. Subsequent connects to the same server will be silent (MATCHED).

M5 — Moderation & admin UI

The WinForms client now exposes all M5 operations through the main menu and context menus:

Admin → Server accounts… — create, reset password, and delete server accounts (requires can_admin_accounts).
Channel tree right-click — create, edit, and delete channels. The edit dialog exposes the full per-channel Opus configuration: mono/stereo, sample rate, bitrate, frame size, application mode, FEC, expected packet loss, DTX, and complexity.
User list right-click — move, kick, ban, server mute/deafen, and set permissions (items are gated by your own permissions).
Activity log shows async GenericResult feedback for every moderation request.
User list shows text indicators for self-mute, self-deafen, server-mute, and server-deafen states.

These operations require an admin-provisioned account with the appropriate permissions; the connect dialog already supports username/password auth.

Known limitations

PTT is focus-scoped — the push-to-talk key only works while the VoiceCat window has focus. A system-wide WH_KEYBOARD_LL hook is not used in v1 (permissions + AV risk).
Receive-side noise reduction checkbox in per-user tuning is wired end-to-end but is a passthrough no-op until a real APM/NS backend is built (no working Windows/MSVC port of webrtc-audio-processing upstream — see docs/tech-stack.md §1).
TOFU pins the TLS leaf cert, not the declared Ed25519 identity fingerprint. Both are shown in the identity dialog, but the cert fingerprint is the value that is actually verified on reconnect. See docs/security.md §1.1.