Install vJoy and HidHide directly from their official sources - #38
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The driver banner used to only link out to each project's download page, leaving the user to find, download, and run the installer by hand. It now asks each project's own official source for its latest installer (vJoy via SourceForge's release API, HidHide via the GitHub releases API) and downloads and launches it directly, showing the latest available version next to the button. A manual "open page" link stays as a fallback. Neither driver is bundled inside MIM's own installer: both are kernel-mode drivers maintained upstream, so always pulling the current release avoids MIM ever shipping a stale, unpatched copy.
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Follow-up to #38: the README still said MIM doesn't install vJoy/HidHide for you. It now does, via the driver banner. Co-authored-by: Constantinos-T <Tsigaridas.constantinos@gmail.com>
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The driver banner used to only link out to each project's download page,
leaving the user to find, download, and run the installer by hand.
It now asks each project's own official source for its latest installer:
and downloads and launches that installer directly from MIM, showing the
latest available version next to the button (e.g. "Install vJoy
(2.1.9.1-160719)"). A smaller "or open page" link stays as a manual
fallback if the automated download fails for any reason.
Neither driver is bundled inside MIM's own installer. Both are signed
kernel-mode drivers maintained upstream, so always pulling the current
release from the source avoids MIM ever shipping (or getting stuck on) a
stale, unpatched copy. Both installers request their own elevation via
their manifest, so MIM doesn't need its own UAC wrapper here like it does
for vJoyConfig.exe.
Verified the network layer directly (live calls to both APIs return the
correct filename/version/URL, and the vJoy download's redirect chain
resolves to real binary content). Couldn't exercise the banner UI itself
end-to-end since both drivers are already installed on my machine, the
banner (and its buttons) only render when a driver is missing.
Closes nothing specific, this was a follow-up from chat about MIM not
bundling the drivers it automates.