How Does It Work is a CLI program which allows you to view what makes a certain program / game run. HDIW makes it super simple to find out what certain programs use, but just making you input the directory!

To use HDIW, simply run it with a directory parameter, for example: python3 hdiw "C:\Users\user\Downloads" would scan the entire Downloads directory, but you probably don't want to do that.

Below is an example of an output generated by HDIW

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The most common way of using HDIW is on games, you just need to copy the game's directory and then run HDIW like shown above!

To install HDIW you can simply just download the zip from github, and then unzip it. To test if it works you can type run the command python3 hdiw.py -h. If you get a help message, you have succesfully installed HDIW!

Let's say you want to scan a directory, but there's some folders in there you don't want to scan. That's what hdiwignore is for! To utilize hdiwignore, make a file called hdiwignore.json in the directory you want to scan, and then just put a json list of the files / directories you want to ignore!

For example:

["bin", "theme.eft"]

would ignore everything in the bin folder, and ignore theme.eft.

There are many things that HDIW needs help with, whether it's adding new Game Engines / Frameworks, or optimizations, bugfixes, or quality of life features. We're always open to accepting pull requests!

To add a new technology, open the main.json file. You will see file-extension, name-contains, and name-colors. Let's say you want to make files ending with .py add Python as a result, you would add the following to file-extension:

".py": {
	"name": "Python",
	"chance": 100,
	"category": "Programming Languages"
}

name: The name of the technology chance: How certain you are that the directory contains this technology. category: The category of thetechnology

You can also use name-contains the same way, except make the key of the dictionary the text you want to look for.

Next, you want to set a color for your technology. Under name-colors add a new line. For this example it will be "python": "YELLOW".

The colors you can currently use are

BLACK, RED, GREEN, YELLOW, BLUE, MAGENTA, CYAN, WHITE, RESET
LIGHTBLACK_EX, LIGHTRED_EX, LIGHTGREEN_EX, LIGHTYELLOW_EX, LIGHTBLUE_EX, LIGHTMAGENTA_EX, LIGHTCYAN_EX, LIGHTWHITE_EX