Storm Posted September 2, 2004 Share Posted September 2, 2004 Im downloading it now, looks nice :D Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/2/#findComment-584485151 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banzai Posted September 2, 2004 Share Posted September 2, 2004 ill give it a go ive got size down as <Size>9,75</Size> edit the changes you made fix the problem seems to work totaly fine now no memory leaching ill report if i have any problems but it seems to be all fixed Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/2/#findComment-584485175 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briandl79 Posted September 2, 2004 Share Posted September 2, 2004 The font size change fixed the problem. :D Anyhow, it now uses about 18mb which is not too bad and it's a nice looking program, looks like it's got a way to go but it's nice... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/2/#findComment-584485190 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmoove Posted September 2, 2004 Author Share Posted September 2, 2004 Well that is the damn problem. The fontsize. It has to do with the regional settings. Some countries use 9,75 and others use 9.75. Mine uses 9,75, so if your country uses 9.75 you are screwed (can't believe the .NET routines don't catch that problem....). Anyways, changing it to 10 (just an integer) fixes the problem. Download in the fist post is updated. Hope you can enjoy it now ;) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/2/#findComment-584485204 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Hoffman Posted September 2, 2004 Share Posted September 2, 2004 The 9,75 -> 10 fix solves my problem :-) nice app. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/2/#findComment-584485218 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briandl79 Posted September 2, 2004 Share Posted September 2, 2004 So now that I've seen it, I'd imagine themes that match with people's desktop icon themes woulde make this a pretty sweet program, also size adjustment would be nice, so it can match icon sizes. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/2/#findComment-584485234 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmoove Posted September 2, 2004 Author Share Posted September 2, 2004 (edited) So now that I've seen it, I'd imagine themes that match with people's desktop icon themes woulde make this a pretty sweet program, also size adjustment would be nice, so it can match icon sizes. You can make the PNG's used in the theme smaller, it will adapt to that size. Resizing the images dynamically could be possible, but will never gain nice results. I have to use Bicubic resizing algorithms then and that causes blur. So the skin defines the size of the monitor. Schmoove, you're using WinAPI, to get the battary state? tongue.gif ... Just wondering... Yes, marshalling a DLL. The .NET framework doesn't provide classes to read these values, so you will have to use the Windows API. BTW, sorry for the stupid bug... it's my first application in .NET (C#). Normally I only program in ANSI C and C++. I could have made this in C++ easily, but this application was specifically started to try out .NET so ;) Edited September 2, 2004 by Schmoove Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/2/#findComment-584485251 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazyhawki Posted September 2, 2004 Share Posted September 2, 2004 (edited) Something else you can do with the font size is set it to 9.75 instead of 9,75 and it works ok as well. However, on the control panel, no matter what size I set the text for, it never shows up and I can't read any options on the control panel for this app. Also, after making this switch, it is only using 5,316k of memory. Edited September 2, 2004 by Crazyhawki Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/2/#findComment-584485298 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy Posted September 2, 2004 Share Posted September 2, 2004 looks great, i'll try it later Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/2/#findComment-584485303 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMeK Veteran Posted September 2, 2004 Veteran Share Posted September 2, 2004 ok edited my xml so its size ten now thats stopped the massive cpu usage and lagging up of my latop but 20mb ram usage also, would be nice if when you pressed the show desktop button it didnt minimise ( i dont want it always on top) 1 more thing, could the font colour be change able :D Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/2/#findComment-584485322 Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Veteran Posted September 2, 2004 Veteran Share Posted September 2, 2004 Any chance you could distribute this in a zip file instead? ;) I don't have winrar installed right now and don't really feel like going to get it just for this one file :p Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/2/#findComment-584485331 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmoove Posted September 2, 2004 Author Share Posted September 2, 2004 Any chance you could distribute this in a zip file instead? ;) I don't have winrar installed right now and don't really feel like going to get it just for this one file :p here you go: http://users.skynet.be/bk265512/Battery_Mo..._dotNET_0_1.zip okedited my xml so its size ten now thats stopped the massive cpu usage and lagging up of my latop but 20mb ram usage also, would be nice if when you pressed the show desktop button it didnt minimise ( i dont want it always on top) 1 more thing, could the font colour be change able biggrin.gif Mem usage: It started as a training in .NET programming and .NET uses more RAM then a C++ program for example. Can't do anything about it besides recoding it in C++, which I'm not gonna do. Comes with the territory.... sorry. About the minimizing: I'll see if I can pull that off, though haven't got an idea how (besides putting it in always on top mode).... so maybe if I figure it out. Font color: maybe in the next version. Shouldn't be to hard to put in. Easy even ;) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/2/#findComment-584485342 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazyhawki Posted September 2, 2004 Share Posted September 2, 2004 Another thing I noticed is that any settings made (such as screen position) is m=not saved to the xml file so every time you open up the program, it goes back to the defaults. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/2/#findComment-584485362 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banzai Posted September 2, 2004 Share Posted September 2, 2004 also can i request that you can set it to play an audio file when it is at 50% and also when it is fully charged? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/2/#findComment-584485367 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmoove Posted September 2, 2004 Author Share Posted September 2, 2004 Another thing I noticed is that any settings made (such as screen position) is m=not saved to the xml file so every time you open up the program, it goes back to the defaults. It saves the settings when you press 'OK' in the preferences box and when it exits the program (though make sure you don't have the XML file opened in an editor, because then it can't write the file). Also it only remembers the position of the monitor if you check the option "remember monitor position" in the preferences box. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/2/#findComment-584485377 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazyhawki Posted September 2, 2004 Share Posted September 2, 2004 Checking the box did it, but I am still unable to read what any of the boxes say since no text is showing up, so I just made a guess as to which checkbox it is. Thanks. Any ideas about the text not appearing? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/2/#findComment-584485420 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmoove Posted September 2, 2004 Author Share Posted September 2, 2004 Checking the box did it, but I am still unable to read what any of the boxes say since no text is showing up, so I just made a guess as to which checkbox it is. Thanks. Any ideas about the text not appearing? Can you post a screenshot maybe? Are you using themes (msstyle/windowblinds)? It should look like this: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/2/#findComment-584485427 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazyhawki Posted September 2, 2004 Share Posted September 2, 2004 Yes, on XP I am using the slate theme. Is there an issue with using themes? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/2/#findComment-584485447 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmoove Posted September 2, 2004 Author Share Posted September 2, 2004 No I've tried various themes (extensis, tiger, reluna... and some others), all work fine. Can't think of anything that could cause text not to show up. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/2/#findComment-584485461 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophism Posted September 2, 2004 Share Posted September 2, 2004 works for me now :p kickass man kickass Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/2/#findComment-584485484 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazyhawki Posted September 2, 2004 Share Posted September 2, 2004 If I attach the theme, would you want to check it out? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/2/#findComment-584485490 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmoove Posted September 2, 2004 Author Share Posted September 2, 2004 Sure, pass it over, I'll check it out Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/2/#findComment-584485505 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazyhawki Posted September 2, 2004 Share Posted September 2, 2004 Theme to try out Slate_Theme___New.rar Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/2/#findComment-584485508 Share on other sites More sharing options...
legojerry Posted September 2, 2004 Share Posted September 2, 2004 Nice app! Thanks a lot! Edit- would there be any way you could make it so we can change our power profile through this? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/2/#findComment-584485515 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmoove Posted September 2, 2004 Author Share Posted September 2, 2004 Works fine here :wacko: Can you post a screenshot of how it looks on your PC? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/2/#findComment-584485517 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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