FloatLED v1.0 - Space Optimized HD LED monitoring

oakvalley · Post by **oakvalley** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:25 pm

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!

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:04 pm

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..!

Bonne_den_kule · Post by **Bonne_den_kule** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 12:08 am

Where in Norway do you live?

dracflamloc · Post by **dracflamloc** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 12:12 am

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

oakvalley · Post by **oakvalley** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 1:27 am

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

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:26 am

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!

Joakim Christiansen · Post by **Joakim Christiansen** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 5:20 pm

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.

techjunkie · Post by **techjunkie** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 10:47 pm

I really like it

, but can't you save the position? That's annoying.

oakvalley · Post by **oakvalley** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 2:45 am

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 :)

Droopy · Post by **Droopy** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 9:19 am

Can you provide the source code

oakvalley · Post by **oakvalley** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 1:00 pm

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:))

oakvalley · Post by **oakvalley** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 11:17 pm

Okey. things been added and stuff bugfixed.

New version v1.01

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

techjunkie · Post by **techjunkie** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 11:54 pm

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?

)