HddMon - The Next Generation

[asmrixstar]

I had the same problem with the system icons the trick is :
Use Loadimage api instead of Loadicon which seems to screw up colors!

I learned this from CPUIdle ! thx

[Phoenix]

Thanks a lot asmrixstar!

I have changed ExtractIcon to LoadImage. If anyone has the time, and a W2K box, could you give it a try and tell me how the icons look like? Thanks!

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[hutch--]

It looks fine on my win2k sp4. I found the Alpha setting, set it to zero and the greyed look went away. I started a few large programs and the light indicators appear to work by disk drive rather than partition. It correctly lists all of the fixed drived and when I select the option Detected Drives, it should the other three, 2 CDs and a floppy.

[MichaelW]

I have had it running for 22 hours now, and the accumulated CPU time is 51 seconds. An average utilization of .06% is probably low enough

MichaelW, how did you measure this?!

I just opened up Task Manager and on the Processes tab read the CPU Time for the HddMon process. I had recorded the time when I started it so I knew how long it had been running.

[PBrennick]

Phoenix,
I have a sense of humor so I did not mind that I was driven crazy for a bit after setting Alpha to 90% and the details disappeared and would not come back.  Once it occurred to me, I had to guess, as you say nothing, that it might just be invisible and then had to guess where to right click to get the Alpha setting submenu so I could make it visible again.  Don't you think you should make a provision for idiots such as myself who just like to play to see if I can cause an app to groan?  Especially if you start allowing docking in various places?

Paul

[Phoenix]

MichaelW, i did not know about that feature  :red

PBrennick: I'm sorry for driving you crazy  :(, but on my monitor i can see the details window even with an Alpha of 90%. So you think the maximum selectable Alpha percentage should be, lets say 50 or 60%?

[PBrennick]

Phoenix,
My goodness, don't do that!!  Just give us a way to alter the Alpha settings from the two icons (right click) in the notification area.

I do not think this problem is unique to my machine but maybe to laptops?  I do not know but all I know is that I don't think you should cripple your efforts!  I love your program and even though it is not dockable yet, I already have it in my startup.

Paul

[Phoenix]

OK, alter the Alpha settings from notification area icons is on the "to do" list...

and even though it is not dockable yet

Dockable to what? It should - hopefully - dock to screen edges. Do you think of (permanent) docking to other windows? Well, that seems to be a more complex and difficult task for me... Enumerate all windows, ok; check if we are close to their borders, ok; but what is to to if these windows are about being moved, minimized or whatever?

[PBrennick]

Phoenix,
I just want to be able to move it and dock it top right of the desktop where I am docking the AppLoader utility.  We already discussed this once before.

BTW:  If I am currently showing Details, should it not keep that setting even when the machine is rebooted (by utilizing HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\HddMon).

Paul

[PBrennick]

Phoenix, sorry to be a pain but there is one more problem.  Even though I right click the invisible area and change the alpha to zero percent and get a visible detail window when I reboot and click show details, I am back to an invisible details window and when I right click it it is back to 90%.  I think you should update the registry whenever the Alpha setting is modified.

Paul

[Phoenix]

PBrennick,

in attached file is HddMon with a couple of changes:

• The Registry is updated with WM_ENDSESSION message; i do not want to cause HddMon any traffic on disk - only on startup of course and on exit, thats why i do no registry updates while running. WM_ENDSESSION should work fine.
• On startup the details window is restored to the last status it had on application exit.
• If you cannot find the details window because of too much transparency, just take the "Reset Alpha" option from notification icons menu.  :lol

However, i'm sorry, but i cannot understand (perhaps because of my bad english) whats going wrong with docking on screen edges? It should work....

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[PBrennick]

Phoenix,
I like the program as it is and it is too difficult to address the language barrier, so I think I will be thankful for all your efforts and run it the way you designed it.

One thing, though, for example; if the details window is dockable tell me how to dock it in the top, right hand corner of the desktop?

EDIT: I forgot to say thanks for addressing all my concernes in this last update!

Paul

[PBrennick]

Phoenix,
I have tested the changes and everthing works.  I feel confident when I play with the program, now, and no longer worry that things will become a problem.

Paul

[Phoenix]

Paul,

thank you very much for your support and patience!

Please let me ask one more question: is a "docking" window a window that has a small bar (lets say ~6 pix wide) visible on screen and shows its contents when you move the mouse over it? Something like biteriders startbar posted on this forum?

In last posted version is a bug: it does not update the drives in details window if "reported" mode is selected and an additional supported drive is added/removed. Fixed in attached file.

Phoenix

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[Mark Jones]

Hi Phoenix, would it be possible to add a toggle to hide the two tray icons? The new icons and docking bar look great by the way. :bg

p.s. I've always thought that a "docking" window meant it was "self-aligning" to another window or edge of the screen (so it is working correctly.)