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This is what I was able to narrow it down to. It only appears without the text as in the picture after I installed SP1 for .Net Framework. When I removed SP1 from it, it appeared fine. Maybe something to look into fixing for a future release. THANKS!!!!

How about the ability to display both the percentage and remaining time? May sound dumb :(

Also not sure if this was mentioned, and not like it is so bad, could always type it in, but when clicking the theme website, such as mentioned in the glass battery theme, http://elpincho.tk it does nothing.

This is what I was able to narrow it down to. It only appears without the text as in the picture after I installed SP1 for .Net Framework. When I removed SP1 from it, it appeared fine. Maybe something to look into fixing for a future release. THANKS!!!!

I have compiled it against the standard .NET framework that came with SP2. So that might be the problem.

I'll install SP1 and recompile it again and see if that makes any difference.

How about the ability to display both the percentage and remaining time? May sound dumb
I might include that option in a future release.
Also not sure if this was mentioned, and not like it is so bad, could always type it in, but when clicking the theme website, such as mentioned in the glass battery theme, http://elpincho.tk it does nothing.

Correct, the onclick event for that label hasn't been implemented yet. Blame my lazyness :p

Thanks. This worked. I was trying to get it to startup by having a HKLM\Run Key start it up, but it kept giving me a .Net error when it was attempting to start it.

Ah crap, that was exactly the way I wanted to implement it.....

Now I have to figure out how to add something to the startup folder through .NET.... ah well I'll find a way eventually.

It was indeed the SP1 for the .NET framework causing problems. After adding a manifest file the problems were solved (at least at my PC).

So Crazyhawki, please redownload the package. It is now recompiled against the .NET SP1 framework and the manifest file is added.

Hope it works now for you!

http://users.skynet.be/bk265512/Battery_Mo..._dotNET_0_1.zip

Here's a feature suggestion:

There should be an option called transparent mode.

Example:

You have Firefox open.

You have your monitor part of the links bar, part of the tab bar, and the close tab button.

You have your monitor in 50% opacity.

Because your monitor is 50% opaque, you can see the obscured parts of Firefox through the monitor.

You have your monitor in transparent mode.

You click the close tab button.

The monitor recieves the click, but then passes it on to the same screen location in Firefox.

The tab is closed.

Also, there should be an option to disable the system tray icon and call up the prefs box with a keyboard shortcut like Ctrl+Shift+P, and force-show the monitor with Ctrl-Shift-M.

What would be really nice, is if the tray icon would mimick the battery monitor. This way, if BM.NET isn't set as 'always on top', you can still see the status.

I have the default XP battery monitor in the tray + yours, and when I glance down there, my eyes focus on yours first ;-), and I start freaking out that I have no battery left! (You're icon looks like an 'empty' battery compared to the XP one)

What would be really nice, is if the tray icon would mimick the battery monitor. This way, if BM.NET isn't set as 'always on top', you can still see the status.

I have the default XP battery monitor in the tray + yours, and when I glance down there, my eyes focus on yours first ;-), and I start freaking out that I have no battery left! (You're icon looks like an 'empty' battery compared to the XP one)

It's on my todo list, so it will definitly be added sometime.

Here's a feature suggestion:

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yada yada

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Also, there should be an option to disable the system tray icon and call up the prefs box with a keyboard shortcut like Ctrl+Shift+P, and force-show the monitor with Ctrl-Shift-M.

Click through.... I'll see if I can implement that. Don't know exactly how to do that, but I'll take a look at it.

This app is deliciously gorgeous. I heart it. Please take these comments as constructive criticism :)

1) I would like a "Stick to Desktop" mode like, say, Rainlendar has. I don't want it always on top, but I don't want it in the middle of windows either.

2) It needs to not show up in the ALT+TAB menu.

3) I would like an option to show the meter while on battery or charging, and then play a sound and fade out the meter when battery is fully charged. I don't need the meter when I'm charged :)

4) Mimic meter status in taskbar tray, which has been mentioned.

5) Just as a good option for new users, offer to auto-disable showing the other battery icon (from Windows) upon startup.

6) Show both % and time in the tooltip or even in the meter as Windows does.

7) Double-clicking the systray icon does a weird animation without doing anything constructive.

8) No option to stop showing the meter and just minimize to tray.

EDIT: Just upgraded to .3. The installer should shut down the app automatically if it's running before trying to upgrade (it threw an error).

But these are just things I've noticed; I really do like this program and will continue to use it!

1) I would like a "Stick to Desktop" mode like, say, Rainlendar has. I don't want it always on top, but I don't want it in the middle of windows either.

2) It needs to not show up in the ALT+TAB menu.

3) I would like an option to show the meter while on battery or charging, and then play a sound and fade out the meter when battery is fully charged. I don't need the meter when I'm charged :)

4) Mimic meter status in taskbar tray, which has been mentioned.

5) Just as a good option for new users, offer to auto-disable showing the other battery icon (from Windows) upon startup.

6) Show both % and time in the tooltip or even in the meter as Windows does.

7) Double-clicking the systray icon does a weird animation without doing anything constructive.

8) No option to stop showing the meter and just minimize to tray.

EDIT: Just upgraded to .3. The installer should shut down the app automatically if it's running before trying to upgrade (it threw an error).

But these are just things I've noticed; I really do like this program and will continue to use it!

1) Been looking into such a thing, not quite clear yet how to do it. So yes I'm working on it but other things have higher priority.

2) Have no idea how to do that, have to investigate that.

3) Right now (in version 0.3) you can enable an alert to notify you the battery is charged. I'll implement the sound option later and the fade out too. Seem like usefull features.

4) On my todo list.

5) No idea how to do that. The battery CAN NOT be removed (it's one of those icons that is always there sadly), though I can hide it, like XP hides other inactive icons. I have no idea on how to do it, but I assume it is in the registry somewhere. I'll see what I can do about that.

6) In tooltip no problem, on the meter itself it is quite a bit harder and I don't think I wll do that... it also looks a bit weird frankly (I had a, rather buggy, version that displayed both and I didn't like it).

7) It is brute forcing the monitor do display and get on top in the Z-order. In order to force that it first has to minimize... this is weird, but it seems to be the only way to get it on top again after using the "show desktop" shortcut in the quicklaunchbar. It quite weird, but couldn't get it working properly in the normal ways.

8) Will add that

EDIT: I use NSIS (for the first time) and I have no idea on how to make NSIS close applications. I don't really want to waste my time for something like that, so for now just close the program before updating.

Thanks for the (constructive) comment (Y)

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