[New release] VistaHide Battery Gauge 1.1.1

[bravo261]

wow, i've been looking for something EXACTLY like this without all of spb's extras. thank you so much!

 

[syrguy1969]

Great looking app...I am going to try it out on my 700wx tonight!!

 

[v3rsus]

Very good app, but is possible to have a "white bar" instead of multicolor one? On my wm6 p3300 looking not so good

 

[vijay555]

ins0mniaque, this isn't an app I need, but it looks great.

However, I have to say, your source code is beautiful... a work of art almost. Kudos.

V

 

[freeyayo50]

Very good app, but is possible to have a "white bar" instead of multicolor one? On my wm6 p3300 looking not so good

Yes its possible. You just have to change the colors in registry.

 

[ems275]

Question on the Registry Edits

First off Love this program, Runs great on my SP WM 5.

My question is I am trying to add the registry entry to adjust the height, I used :


HKCU\Software\VistaHide\Battery Gauge\240 x 320\Height
- Window's height
DWORD - 10

All of these lines are folders, Correct? HKCU\Software\VistaHide\Battery Gauge\240 x 320\Height
of course except HKCU\Software, which already exist

Then a dword value named Window's height and the value I made 10 ?

If my assumptions are correct it should change the height of the battery meter, well it doesn't.

Am I doing something wrong?

Please help

 

[TheDwarf]

HKCU\Software\VistaHide\Battery Gauge\240 x 320\Height
Am I doing something wrong?

Yes, I have made the same mistake : you must create a new value called "Height" in the key "240 x 320".

Anyway, great app ! I love it !
But I experienced the same bug as Cellneuron : re-running the app doesn't kill actual process : it just kill the display of the gauge (on a Eten X500+).

 

[wildx]

i used it on my C730 WM6, it looks & works great but it won't show up in the home screen, any other screen is fine.

i really like the colors of it, great job, hope you'll solve the problem on your next version, cheers~

 

[GollyJer]

Does anyone have this working as intended?

So my idea was to have a fullscreen gradient bar that would look "behind" VistaBetaTWO's WA2 Aero skin.

For me, it shows up in front of the start button.

 

[freeyayo50]

Does anyone have this working as intended?


For me, it shows up in front of the start button.

You have to adjust the bar to not show the area where the start button is.

You can try these settings.

HKCU\Software\VistaHide\Battery Gauge\240 x 240\Excluded Regions\Line 1\X : (DWORD) 13
HKCU\Software\VistaHide\Battery Gauge\240 x 240\Excluded Regions\Line 1\Y : (DWORD) 0
HKCU\Software\VistaHide\Battery Gauge\240 x 240\Excluded Regions\Line 1\Width : (DWORD) 11
HKCU\Software\VistaHide\Battery Gauge\240 x 240\Excluded Regions\Line 1\Height : (DWORD) 1
HKCU\Software\VistaHide\Battery Gauge\240 x 240\Excluded Regions\Line 2\X : (DWORD) 11
HKCU\Software\VistaHide\Battery Gauge\240 x 240\Excluded Regions\Line 2\Y : (DWORD) 1
HKCU\Software\VistaHide\Battery Gauge\240 x 240\Excluded Regions\Line 2\Width : (DWORD) 15
HKCU\Software\VistaHide\Battery Gauge\240 x 240\Excluded Regions\Line 2\Height : (DWORD) 1
HKCU\Software\VistaHide\Battery Gauge\240 x 240\Excluded Regions\Line 3\X : (DWORD) 10
HKCU\Software\VistaHide\Battery Gauge\240 x 240\Excluded Regions\Line 3\Y : (DWORD) 2
HKCU\Software\VistaHide\Battery Gauge\240 x 240\Excluded Regions\Line 3\Width : (DWORD) 17
HKCU\Software\VistaHide\Battery Gauge\240 x 240\Excluded Regions\Line 3\Height : (DWORD) 1
HKCU\Software\VistaHide\Battery Gauge\240 x 240\Excluded Regions\Line 4\X : (DWORD) 9
HKCU\Software\VistaHide\Battery Gauge\240 x 240\Excluded Regions\Line 4\Y : (DWORD) 3
HKCU\Software\VistaHide\Battery Gauge\240 x 240\Excluded Regions\Line 4\Width : (DWORD) 19
HKCU\Software\VistaHide\Battery Gauge\240 x 240\Excluded Regions\Line 4\Height : (DWORD) 1

 

[mobowhunter]

GollyJer, where did you get your statusbar? Is it a skin?

Thanks.

Does anyone have this working as intended?


For me, it shows up in front of the start button.

 

[GollyJer]

freeyayo50 . (Isn't he fee? ) Thanks for the help. I'm sure something along those lines will work. It makes perfect sense now that I see how it's supposed to be configured.

mobowhunter, I'm using Wisbar Advance 3 with the Wisbar Advance 2 skin from the Vista Beta TWO skin suite. Beware. If you go down that route, people release "skin suites" that have skins for many applications in them. I'm only using the Wisbar 2 skin (works in Wisbar 3) and nothing else in that skin suite. It can be confusing when you first dive in.

 

[craigiecraigie4]

Thanks - I'm using it cos I need a small app to complete the functionality I used to have in larger software suites like PocketPlus.

Some ideas if you feel like practising your dev skills further:

• You truly need to supply a .reg file with the settings for various devices (240 x 320 etc). New users are never gonna get this! Even for experienced users it takes ages to set up.
• Probably worth writing a quick settings proggie
• Above comments on process not being killed are correct. When u run the prog a second time, it kills the bar, but NOT the process. That's how u get 22 instances - by restarting 22 times whilst testing settings. Also, killing the process from a task manager hangs the touch screen, which means you can't delete it from startup and it gets loaded again on reboot. ie MUCH better to put an lnk in your startup folder!

[Edit]For users battling to kill process and remove from startup folder, it IS tough. You'll need to install a safe mode app (available freeware) to prevent the prog starting up, then kill the file in your startup folder. Alternatively, total commander can MOVE it to another folder, reboot, then you can delete from destination folder.

 

[colonel00]

I posted this in the other thread before I saw this one.

Here is an example registry for the colors and other settings. I have not messed with the Exclude function yet.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VistaHide]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VistaHide\Battery Gauge]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VistaHide\Battery Gauge\240 x 320]
"Height"=dword:00000005
"Y"=dword:00000000
"Width"=dword:000000f0
"X"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VistaHide\Battery Gauge\240 x 320\Colors]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VistaHide\Battery Gauge\240 x 320\Colors\Background]
"Dark"=dword:00000000
"Normal"=dword:00202020
"Light"=dword:00404040


[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VistaHide\Battery Gauge\240 x 320\Colors\Critical]
"Dark"=dword:0000007f
"Normal"=dword:000000ff
"Light"=dword:007f7fff

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VistaHide\Battery Gauge\240 x 320\Colors\Low]
"Dark"=dword:00007f7f
"Normal"=dword:0000ffff
"Light"=dword:007fffff

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VistaHide\Battery Gauge\240 x 320\Colors\High]
"Dark"=dword:00007f00
"Normal"=dword:0000ff00
"Light"=dword:007fff7f


[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VistaHide\Battery Gauge\240 x 320\Thresholds]
"High"=dword:00000064
"Low"=dword:00000019
"Critical"=dword:00000005

Edit: I went ahead and dug around a bit more. These should be the default values set up in the reg. I have not imported them to test as of yet, but this should be correct.

Note: It seems that it reads the color hex in the order Blue-Green-Red. A simple test is to enter the value 00FF0000 into one of the color regs. You would expect that region to turn red, but instead it shows as blue.

Here is a sample .reg if anyone wants to play with it. By no means is it great as I suck at graphics, but it will give you an idea of how to change things.

 

[craigiecraigie4]

Nice work dude! Exactly what the prog was missing.

 

[jomo25]

This thing's awesome. I've been using it for about 2 weeks now. I had no idea it was so configurable. It's practically begging for a settings app (hint hint)! Wish I were still a developer...

 

[Mills00013]

maybe its because im on WM6 or because im on a CDMA phone but the bar still doesnt go all the way across when its put into landscape... dont know what im doing wrong

 

[cincy1020]

Hi:
Thanks for the great app!!
Just wanted to report that it works perfectly in portrait and landscape modes on AT&T Tilt (WM6)/ HTC TyTn II/ Kaiser.

Thanks again!

 

[papamopps]

maybe i´m a little stupid. but how can i edit the colour of battery meter. i don´t have the registries listed above.

so do i have to create them??

and perhaps someone did a grey batterymeter and can share??

thanks

 

[briggs81]

This thing is pretty neat. i didnt totaly understand where it was at firs tlol.. but very cool.

now i just need some sort of plugin or app for my vista desktop that will tell me when my pda is fully charged, somethign small for task bar!