pruss

http://www.1src.com/freeware/fileinfo.php?id=1650

This alpha-test software replaces the exclamation mark in the status bar of a T3/T5/TX/LifeDrive with a battery, but keeps the attention icon functioning as before (e.g., if you get an alert, now you will get an alternating exclamation mark and battery, and you can click on it as before).

Note: If you install this over a custom DIA skin, you will have to reload that skin after disabling ShowBattery.

It includes full source code, so you can modify it to your heart's content. It's all a very simple thing, not anything as sophisticated as the plugins Dmitry is working on. But it does the trick for me.

In case you're wondering if it'll slow down your system and how, I'll tell you how it works. It checks the battery state every minute while the device is running, as well as when device is turned or put in or out of cradle. If the state is not changed from last time (the change resolution is: 16 states for battery, plus one charging state), then it does nothing. If the state is changed, then it modifies three icons in the statusbar skin, and forces a redraw of the attention plugin by telling the attention plugin that the display has been rotated (though of course it hasn't).

It uses battery icons in StatusBarResources if there are any such (I have such because I have a private build of myKbd that handles battery icons) or else uses the icons from ShowBattery.prc.

USE AT YOUR OWN RISK

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pokeypda

That's pretty neat, I'd like to see what Church Punk could do with the icon to make it blend with his OSX DIA?

Are you supossed to get a % or anything with a tap and hold?

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cyberdude

Alex,

This sounds interesting, but I'm not sure what you mean by this:



Do you mean I have to turn it off to have a custom DIA installed (I use mykbd to combine an customized Atomik keyboard with the blackhide DIA and statusbar by Velo) and then if I turn it back on the customizations won't work, but the battery app will continue to work, or if I disable the showbattery app I have to reload the skin via mykbd, or something else entirely?

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pokeypda

When I tapped 'post reply' I went into a rest loop. After a warm reset statbat was off so I reloaded my myKbd Ddia skin and all is well without this statbat app.

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FerdFerd

Here's what I've found. I have a custom DIA-StatusBar skin installed via mySkin. If I load and turn on ShowBattery, the alert notice icon is replaced with the battery icon, which matches the default colors for the TX. If I then turn ShowBattery off, nothing is changed. The battery icon continues to be displayed until I reload the custom skin.

If I then switch to, say, the default DIA skin, it shows the alert notification icon, not the battery icon, even though ShowBattery still on. If I turn ShowBattery off and then back on again the battery icon reappears.

A nifty application, but one that will undoubtely aggravate the skin makers.

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pokeypda

'dude that's how you remove the icon.

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pokeypda

ditto FerdFerd, wondering why I got the reset loop? Off to try again. Anybody, did you test the alert indicator with an alarm, I did.

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pokeypda

I turned SB back on, tested it with an alarm and all seems well???

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FerdFerd

Just checked an alarm. No reset loop. The custom skin alert icon is displayed when the alarm sounds. The battery icon returns when the alarm is dismissed. In other words, all is well here.

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pruss

Yes, this is what I meant by saying that you needed to reload the skin after turning off ShowBattery.



Right. ShowBattery doesn't know that a new skin was loaded, so it assumes that the icon it had put up is still there.

The battery icon would have shown up anyway for you once the battery ran down a little.



It's easy enough to put the battery icons into the skin--I have a version of myKbd that handles battery icons.

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pruss

When you turned on ShowBattery, did you already have a myKbd skin active?


I'll have to look over the reset handling to see what could be triggering a reset loop. (Of course it might have been some other app, but that's not that likely.) I suppose you didn't get any error messages?

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pokeypda

Yes, I did have a myKbd skin active, no messages.

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FerdFerd

pokeypda indicated earlier that StatBatt was running when the reset loop appeared. Is that the likely conflict, since both of these modify the status bar?

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dmitrygr

no. pruss modifies icons, whereas i use the api that statusbar library provides

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