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Hello all,

1 year ago I wrote this HD LED monitoring out of the frustration that
there were not any good alternatives. Think I tried them all, but they
either was down in the traybar with ugly icons or messy/bloated ontop windows with ugly graphics.

It does however not monitor network drives, USB Sticks, CD-ROM or floppy disc along with custom HD stuff like TruCrypt mounted drives.

I have tested with 4 internal HD, and two external USB HD - no problems detected.

V0.9 was tested on two computers for 1 year - no crashes.
V1.0 has been tested on two computers for 1 month+ - no crashes.

So it seems very stable. :)

Software page:
http://www.stone-oakvalley-studios.com/ ... ftware.htm

Download link:
http://www.stone-oakvalley-studios.com/ ... ed-v10.zip

Using code from DriveGleam.dll (c) 2005 Engeltek - Svein Engelsgjerd (waxhead@online.no) http://sengelsg.home.online.no

The rest was programmed by me.

Enjoy!

Works very nice here

(EVENTUALLY a minimize to tray functionality would be nice, when you for example needs to use fullscreen apps but dont want to exit the program...)

However you archieved the goal of being unbloaty, not messy or annoying..!

Where in Norway do you live?

Pretty cool. What about an optional tray icon that you can hover over and in the tooltip it shows you the status.

Good, I've seen the FloatLED window sometimes is visible during inital
loading of games (menus etc), but when I enter the game itself it don't show.

I'm not particular fan of "more" tray icon fillers, but anyway an option would not hurt from the menu. I don't want a tray icon all the time though. Will consider this actually.

I live near Haugesund, Norway

oakvalley wrote: I'm not particular fan of "more" tray icon fillers, but anyway an option would not hurt from the menu. I don't want a tray icon all the time though. Will consider this actually.

I hate tray fillers too, and i would be annoyed if the program had the icon all the time, but it doesnt need to have that!

thefool wrote:I hate tray fillers too, and i would be annoyed if the program had the icon all the time, but it doesnt need to have that!

Only when you choose to minimize it to tray.

I really like it , but can't you save the position? That's annoying.

Save position is done when exiting FloatLED from the menu.....

However this is broken in V1.0 when I used the installer software to
add the program to startup upon windows boot. Upon restarting
Windows the default program dir suddenly became "C:\Documents And Settings/Username" and so there was created another FloatLED.ini which
floatled itself could not find.

I have fixed this now, but I have yet the MINIMIZE TO TRAY feature
to be included. Expect an update V1.01 in a few days. Other things I added
was:

Added saving position when locking/unlocking the window.
Added own SAVE WINDOW POSITION in the menu as well.

Now, the V1.01 should be fully complete :)

Can you provide the source code

Somehow the line:

pref_res=OpenPreferences(GetProgramPath()+"FloatLED.ini")

did not work.


but this one did:

ss$=GetProgramPath()+"FloatLED.ini"
pref_res=OpenPreferences(ss$)

BTW, Droopy now that you are here. I guess you are working on a update
for your excellent lib for PB4.0?

The source code is not really any magic, as the HD activity routine is from my friends C project: DriveGleam. I'm just using a minilib of that to pack it into my source which is basically if..then.s and gadgets and prefs stuff.
Let me think about it....must clean out some comments first, I always write lots of funny stuff:))

Okey. things been added and stuff bugfixed.

New version v1.01

http://www.stone-oakvalley-studios.com/ ... d-v101.zip

oakvalley wrote:Okey. things been added and stuff bugfixed.

New version v1.01

http://www.stone-oakvalley-studios.com/ ... d-v101.zip

Thanks! and now with "Save Window Position" and "Minimize to Tray". Great stuff! Almost perfect!

(any chance you are going to include so you can change colours and font? )