Battery Monitor.NET

[new_duxie]

Hey Banzai, that wallpaper u had on your screenshot on about page 3 of this topic, any chance you could post a copy somewhere?

[jingarelho]

nice app thanks for sharing it.

Where can i get more themes ??? does anyone know?

[Seth]

I don't think there are any right now... it's new... :)

[Elexir]

But I guess, you can make a theme yourself... :)

[AJerman]

First of all, I LOVE this program. It's one of those simple programs that make a big difference. So thanks :)

Second...

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 :)

I want exactly this too. If you can add this and click through, the program will be almost perfect for me. I want to be able to see the monitor at about 30-40% transparent in the bottom corner of my screen when I am on batter power, but I want to be able to click through it like it's not there. If I am plugged in then there is really no point in having the meter and it can go away.

Or here is an even better idea for you... You could allow custom levels of transparency for the different battery states. For example, I could set it to fully transparent when full, because I don't need it, then when it's on battery it could be 30-40%, and when the battery level is critical, it would be fully opaque. I think that would be another pretty good idea for you.

Okay, and my last suggestion which is simple, these are updates I would suggest for the alerts, first, add one more alert (like windows has, low, and then critical). Also, it would be nice if you could specify what low and critical are yourself (again, like you can in windows). Then add an option to "Wait for click to close alert". Otherwise, make the alert pop up, then go away by itself after a few seconds, again, add an option for how long to show the alert in the preferences. And finally, make it fade out.

Alright, so there is a bunch more suggestions for you to take a look at. Keep up the great work :D

[Seth]

Andrew, I'ma steal your OU avatar... (I'm home for the weekend though, yay)... and make my own :p :p

Now to get my graphics-whiz brother to make me a theme to match my desktop :)

Do we get to see source? :wub:

Edited September 5, 2004 by SethandCheese

[Elexir]

Schmoove, I've a question to you... Are you making a skin designer for Battery Monitor?? Anyway, if not, you can contact me :)... Cuz I think, I'll make skins for my Download Manager Plus... So, I'll could by the way make the skin designer for Battery Monitor too :) :p (and of course give you later the source :))

[AJerman]

Andrew, I'ma steal your OU avatar... (I'm home for the weekend though, yay)... and make my own :p :p

Now to get my graphics-whiz brother to make me a theme to match my desktop :)

Haha, I actually just took a plain old flat logo and slapped a lens flare on that one. Didn't put too much effort into it ;)

Do we get to see source? :wub:

I see it right now. I'd suggest obfuscation if you don't want your code being public Schmoove ;)

[Elexir]

@Betaz: Are you Schmoove's friend?? Or are you developing Battery Monitor with him?? I mean... the reason, why you see the source :)

[AJerman]

@Betaz: Are you Schmoove's friend?? Or are you developing Battery Monitor with him?? I mean... the reason, why you see the source :)

No, and for those who don't understand how I can see the code, I wont go into detail right now until he at least has a chance to decide if he cares or not. He might not care at all if people see the code but we'll see first.

[joker999]

i dont have laptop, i just got good idea

when battery is low , the battery icon will be center of screen and fade in and out to warning it. eh? :)

[AJerman]

i dont have laptop, i just got good idea

when battery is low , the battery icon will be center of screen and fade in and out to warning it. eh? :)

That's basically what happens. The battery meter itself doesn't fade in and out but an alert does.

[Schmoove]

No, and for those who don't understand how I can see the code, I wont go into detail right now until he at least has a chance to decide if he cares or not. He might not care at all if people see the code but we'll see first.

Hmm, so it's that easy to decompile. Crap.... gotta find a way to scramble it then.

Btw, this application will not be open source, it will always be free, but never open source.

@RusDzanmahmudov:

I think I misunderstood your PM. If you are talking about a skin designer as a seperate application, then no... I will not create an application to create skins. Why not? Well it is just a bunch of PNGs and 1 XML file which can be easily edited with Notepad.

If people want I could write a small tutorial on how to skin it, but is is so easy that even that would probably not be nescessary.

Edited September 6, 2004 by Schmoove

[Rudy]

Hmm, so it's that easy to decompile. Crap.... gotta find a way to scramble it then.

Btw, this application will not be open source, it will always be free, but never open source.

@RusDzanmahmudov:

I think I misunderstood your PM. If you are talking about a skin designer as a seperate application, then no... I will not create an application to create skins. Why not? Well it is just a bunch of PNG's and 1 XML file which can be easily edited with Notepad.

If people want I could write a small tutorial on how to skin it, but is is so easy that even that would probably not be nescessary.

yes, most .net apps are pretty easy to decomplie

[AJerman]

Obfuscation is your friend ;)

[ecstasis]

that just makes it harder to understand, not decompile

[SMeK Veteran]

all i really need is the option to hide this app when the AC is plugged in

found its very useful when im around the house on battery, to have it ontop, but when im plugged in it just becomes annoying

also it seems to be cutting the bottom of my text in the time display

would be nice if you could click the app and it updates the time

and my menu seems to not all be there

im using extensis windows VS

[mistical]

all i really need is the option to hide this app when the AC is plugged in

found its very useful when im around the house on battery, to have it ontop, but when im plugged in it just becomes annoying

Exactly what I was thinking a few hours ago, and havn't had the time to come to neowin yet and post it :p

Just as he is saying, into more detail.

Say that I have the AC adapter plugged in (constantly 100%?) it auto-hides the program from at least the desktop, and possibly even the systray and just have it hide in the background?

Then once it goes to 99%/AC adapter unplugged and now on battery, it shows up back again on the desktop, along with systray.

Probably would want an option to either do both, or only one of the two, since maybe some people would want it to hide the program from the desktop but have the systray icon appear there still...

[joker999]

That's basically what happens. The battery meter itself doesn't fade in and out but an alert does.

ohhh i didnt know ;)

that look cool.

[Sn1p3t]

Nice app.

BTW: There are applications that will prevent .NET applications from being decompiled.

Also, the Memory usage is always like that with .NET applications. It allocated more memory than it needs (although not as much as 600MB that some people were reporting), so it's faster to access. If your computer needs it, it frees it up.

[Hurmoth]

all i really need is the option to hide this app when the AC is plugged in

Now that would be a great addition to this awesome app!

[Veedems Veteran]

i would love to know how you got freeform forms in .net.

[JonathanVP]

Wanna post the source code or are you opposed to that?

[Emon]

Wanna post the source code or are you opposed to that?

this is what Schmoove said few posts ago ..

Btw, this application will not be open source, it will always be free, but never open source.

so yeah .. looks like he is opposed to posting the code ;)

[Schmoove]

@Smek:

About the text being cut-off... there is a limit, you can't make the text too big. I'm working on this, but it seems the functions I use don't report back the correct values, have to investigate where it goes wrong.

About using Extensis. I've tried it too and it looked fine here... I guess your fonts are just too big. If .NET apps don't like that, then there is nothing I can do about it. I'm not gonna rewrite the .NET framework ofcourse. I kept the forms as standard as possible (just using what Visual Studio offers me), there is nothing special about it, so if it screws up there is nothing I can do.

@mistical:

I'm gonna build in an option to hide it manually and hide it when it reaches 100%

@Sn1p3t:

Please tell me where I can find those, all I could find were obfuscators of which the free versions don't do much good... and I don't have like $800 to spend on better versions.

@bangbang023:

This should get you started: http://www.codeproject.com/cs/media/perpxa...harp.asp?df=100

It is far from complete, so you have to extend that to make something usefull out of it.

@JonathanVP:

It will be closed source. If you want parts of the source to learn from you (or anyone else) can get it, I have no problems with that, but I'm not gonna give away the whole source..... as it is mine and I worked hard on it.

Edited September 7, 2004 by Schmoove