+primortal Subscriber² Posted September 14, 2004 Subscriber² Share Posted September 14, 2004 great work Schmoove, just noticed one problem. I had the monitor set to stay on top. In IE (sp2) if I do a CTRL-F5 to refresh the page the battery monitory settings dialog box appears. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/6/#findComment-584556855 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmoove Posted September 14, 2004 Author Share Posted September 14, 2004 Ah! Sorry, I didn't realize the window had to be layered for that to work =/. Great job figuring that out - it took me a very long time to find how to do that. I'm looking forward to the next release! Thanks for pointing me into the right direction. Indeed you have to add the value of WS_EX_LAYERED to it because the form I use is a layered window. If I used your solution it all worked fine, except for the bitmap of the monitor itself not showing up. So if you add WS_EX_LAYERED to WS_EX_TRANSPARENT you combine the best of both worlds :) great work Schmoove, just noticed one problem. I had the monitor set to stay on top. In IE (sp2) if I do a CTRL-F5 to refresh the page the battery monitory settings dialog box appears. Yes sorry, it wasn't really smart of me to choose CRTL+F5 and CTRL+F6. I changed it to Shift+F2 and Shift+F3 for the next release (unless someone has problems with that ofcourse, I don't know for sure if that interferes with an application). Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/6/#findComment-584557093 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaydacodemonkey Posted September 14, 2004 Share Posted September 14, 2004 Three more feature requests: 1. Show % inside the monitor. I have it showing remaining time below the monitor and it would be cool if it could show the percentage inside. 2. Different transparency levels for monitor and text. 3. Possibly allow resizing of the monitor. I love this program! :D The built in IBM battery monitor is so UGLY! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/6/#findComment-584559560 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmoove Posted September 14, 2004 Author Share Posted September 14, 2004 Three more feature requests:1. Show % inside the monitor. I have it showing remaining time below the monitor and it would be cool if it could show the percentage inside. 2. Different transparency levels for monitor and text. 3. Possibly allow resizing of the monitor. I love this program! :D The built in IBM battery monitor is so UGLY! 1) Only possible if I extend the skin format. I might do that eventually sometime. 2) That is quite hard and would involve a lot of code being rewritten, so I'm not gonna do that. 3) Thought of that, but you will get ugly (unsharp, blurred) results. So if you want it bigger/smaller, make bigger/smaller skins. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/6/#findComment-584559626 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmeg Posted September 14, 2004 Share Posted September 14, 2004 Hello, first, this app is really good and usefull and it looks good, too :yes: Second, choosing .NET is not a mistake and you should stick to it, it is the way to go and probably remaining "memory issues" (which are not that big) will hopefully one day be solved by MS until then it is not that a issue compared with the big advances in coding the .NET framework for the developer. One quite major issue with the app: It does not work correctly with different resolution settings, I mean I use the big fonts setting (custom set to 150%, 144 DPI). These modern laptops have a quite high resolution display and setting this option ensures that the fonts are readable without using a magnifying glass ontop of the display ;) :D So, I know it is a little bit more difficult to make sure that the app works with different display resolutions, but .NET makes a little bit more easy. So the problem is 1st, that the text displayed below the battery icon is cut off, please check some font measurement code/API that must be available and not be too hidden. Second the option window does also do not look right. With the default settings the dialogs normally look good, too, with high DPI settings. If not, sometimes it helps to design them with higher dpi settings and then the look on lower DPI settings will not be perfect, but much better than the reverse effect. Eventually with a little bit testing you get good results for all cases. This all is a rather difficult thing, but this is essential and important for all applications. About the 9,75 or 9.50 problem, I understand that, too. I does come from creating the inital settings file on a differenct PC. At the end I think this shows that the idea of using XML files here does not really cut it. Also I did not check where this setting file is stored. If it is stored in the application folder this means that the app will not work correctly with limited accounts or more general for multiple users. I currently think that it is best here to stick to the HKCU (current user) registry tree, this does solve the multi user problem and you can store real numbers in the registry, not only text. A quick fix (if there is this problem), would be to store or access the XML settings from the user-data directory. I think there is a API call or enumeration of such special folders information (e.g. where is the desktop, my documents, application data directory, ... ). Perhaps this helps a little and we get a greet nice tool useabe in even more cases and for more users :woot: :D Keep the fun will developing it, because it is free, so it should help you, too :) chris Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/6/#findComment-584559886 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaydacodemonkey Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 When do you think the next version will be released? I'm excited. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/6/#findComment-584567852 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmoove Posted September 16, 2004 Author Share Posted September 16, 2004 When I finish the new skin I'm making for it. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/6/#findComment-584569652 Share on other sites More sharing options...
filter04 Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 i don't have a laptop, and haven't used the program, but Schmoove this program is very nice looking, and works well apparently. (Y) big thumbs up man. congratulations. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/6/#findComment-584569778 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banzai Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 yeah 0.5 will install this tonight!!! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/6/#findComment-584569853 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+primortal Subscriber² Posted September 16, 2004 Subscriber² Share Posted September 16, 2004 I was looking to modify this battery meter theme, just don't have the time http://www.aero-soft.com/board/index.php?showtopic=247 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/6/#findComment-584570031 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmoove Posted September 16, 2004 Author Share Posted September 16, 2004 Updated to version 0.6. Here is the change log: version 0.6- Added "click through" option - Updated the trayicons - Changed keyboard shortcuts - Added two new themes (Speedometer and Speedometer Small) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/6/#findComment-584572001 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaydacodemonkey Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 Awesome! Click through makes it so much more usable :) I love it. 2 more comments from me: 1. Do you think you could find some way to remove the program from the alt-tab window? 2. If I alt-tab to this program, then hit alt-F4, it closes. Then if I double click the tray icon, it throws a .NET error: Cannot access a disposed object named "m". Object name: "m". Clearly thats just the obfuscated variable name, but I hope u can reproduce and fix that error. LOVE THIS PROGRAM! Thank you. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/6/#findComment-584572084 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurmoth Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 Keeps getting better and better! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/6/#findComment-584572089 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben_G Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 Nice! i think ill install this when i get my laptop :D Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/6/#findComment-584572112 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshMan Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 Wow! What a freaking cool application. Thank you. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/6/#findComment-584572140 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMeK Veteran Posted September 16, 2004 Veteran Share Posted September 16, 2004 sweet update still wish it could be set to disappear when on mains power ;) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/6/#findComment-584572162 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fonze Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 sweet updatestill wish it could be set to disappear when on mains power ;) could you set the opacity to 0 when it is plugged in? that would make it dissapear or be atleast very faint Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/6/#findComment-584572174 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 When my laptop comes back from repair *shakes fist at PCHell err PCWorld* this is definatly going to be on my list of things to do. Looks awsome, getting more awsome and it's just awsome. Keep up the great work man! :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/6/#findComment-584572193 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshalus Veteran Posted September 16, 2004 Veteran Share Posted September 16, 2004 Wow, that makes me want a laptop just to use this program. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/6/#findComment-584572197 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AcdShdw Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 Wow, that makes me want a laptop just to use this program. lol i have about 7 laptops :whistle: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/6/#findComment-584572201 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMeK Veteran Posted September 16, 2004 Veteran Share Posted September 16, 2004 could you set the opacity to 0 when it is plugged in? that would make it dissapear or be atleast very faint i cant see that option :( all the menus and the time left text is cut off :/ Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/6/#findComment-584572401 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmoove Posted September 16, 2004 Author Share Posted September 16, 2004 i cant see that option :(all the menus and the time left text is cut off :/ the preferences window is resizable. You should be able to see it when you resize the window. Why it f*cks up when you use higher DPI modes I don't know.... I use standard .NET forms, nothing fancy. So if that doesn't work... well what can I do?? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/6/#findComment-584572454 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMeK Veteran Posted September 16, 2004 Veteran Share Posted September 16, 2004 thank you :D resized it the end of the menu bar still goes over the edge of the screen, and stays there but this is great :D one slight problem with the alerts, when the alert pops up it takes the focus away from the window you are using, so if you are typing in a box, you have to click in the box to continue anyway to solve this? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/6/#findComment-584572979 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmoove Posted September 16, 2004 Author Share Posted September 16, 2004 thank you :Dresized it the end of the menu bar still goes over the edge of the screen, and stays there but this is great :D one slight problem with the alerts, when the alert pops up it takes the focus away from the window you are using, so if you are typing in a box, you have to click in the box to continue anyway to solve this? No, that's what an alert is for, to get your attention. I'm not going to change that.... sorry. Awesome! Click through makes it so much more usable smile.gif I love it.2 more comments from me: 1. Do you think you could find some way to remove the program from the alt-tab window? 2. If I alt-tab to this program, then hit alt-F4, it closes. Then if I double click the tray icon, it throws a .NET error: Cannot access a disposed object named "m". Object name: "m". Clearly thats just the obfuscated variable name, but I hope u can reproduce and fix that error. LOVE THIS PROGRAM! Thank you. Will be fixed in the next version (already got it fixed in the latest build). Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/6/#findComment-584573044 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshMan Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 What did you use to make this program? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/212463-battery-monitornet/page/6/#findComment-584573078 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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