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- Dracula - 06-22-2003

Great for laptop users, and would look good next to the drive/net/mail monitor Smile

It would be nice to see the following information in it:
- Using AC or battery (plugged or unplugged)
- Current battery percentage

Maybe even an option to auto-hide the plugin under certain conditions, but this could also be done with custom skins...

- User - 07-15-2003

Yes, realy, how about power plug-in ???

- STi Sev - 11-15-2003

I would KILL for this. (Yuri? Have anyone you don't like. Wink )

- Guest - 12-08-2003

I too think this would be a great addition...

- Yuri Kobets - 12-09-2003

Please test this small program on your notebooks and give me results. It will be great if you give me results from other programs (that you are using now): percent, time etc.

I do not have notebook so cannot test this myself Sad

- STi Sev - 12-09-2003

Yuri, (AC plugged in)

Battery charger on AC power: YES
Battery is present: YES
Battery is charging: NO
Battery is discharging: NO
Battery maximum capacity: 43,902 mWh
Battery estimated remaining capacity: 43,902 mWh
Battery estimated rate of discharge: 0 mWh
Battery estimated time remaining: 1193046:28:15

- Yuri Kobets - 12-10-2003

Please same thing but without AC ???

- cmishima - 12-10-2003

Battery charger on AC power: YES
Battery is present: YES
Battery is charging: NO
Battery is discharging: YES
Battery maximum capacity: 48,000.00 mWh
Battery estimated remaining capacity: 48,000.00 mWh
Battery estimated rate of discharge: -15,000.00 mWh
Battery estimated time remaining: 1193046:28:15

Battery charger on AC power: NO
Battery is present: YES
Battery is charging: NO
Battery is discharging: YES
Battery maximum capacity: 48,000.00 mWh
Battery estimated remaining capacity: 48,000.00 mWh
Battery estimated rate of discharge: -15,000.00 mWh
Battery estimated time remaining: 3:12:00

- Yuri Kobets - 12-10-2003

Thank you cmishima Please can you also take values when battery is some discharged?

- cmishima - 12-10-2003

Yes I will discharge some this morning and post.

- Doug Smith - 12-10-2003

After two hours on Battery

Battery charger on AC power: NO
Battery is present: YES
Battery is charging: NO
Battery is discharging: YES
Battery maximum capacity: 48,000.00 mWh
Battery estimated remaining capacity: 2,880.00 mWh
Battery estimated rate of discharge: -15,000.00 mWh
Battery estimated time remaining: 1193046:28:15

- Dracula - 12-10-2003

Hi, let me post the results on my laptop!

Btw, I really wish there was some working Delphi Plugin SDK (or a description how to register plugins for TLB, so they will be recognized... I'd write this plugin or any other myself immediately!)

System:
No AC, battery discharging, 93%, 2:23 remaining
Yuri's test program:
Battery charger on AC power: NO
Battery is present: YES
Battery is charging: NO
Battery is discharging: YES
Battery maximum capacity: 41.515,00 mWh
Battery estimated remaining capacity: 38.578,00 mWh
Battery estimated rate of discharge: -16.092,00 mWh
Battery estimated time remaining: 2:23:50

System:
On AC, battery charging, 91%
Yuri's test program:
Battery charger on AC power: YES
Battery is present: YES
Battery is charging: YES
Battery is discharging: NO
Battery maximum capacity: 41.515,00 mWh
Battery estimated remaining capacity: 37.660,00 mWh
Battery estimated rate of discharge: 15.952,00 mWh
Battery estimated time remaining: 1193046:28:15

System:
On AC, battery removed
Yuri's test program:
Battery charger on AC power: YES
Battery is present: NO
Battery is charging: NO
Battery is discharging: NO
Battery maximum capacity: 0,00 mWh
Battery estimated remaining capacity: 0,00 mWh
Battery estimated rate of discharge: 0,00 mWh
Battery estimated time remaining: 0: 0: 0

You can imagine why I haven't been able to test without both AC and battery Wink As you see, you might want to ignore the time when the battery is recharging... The rest looks perfectly OK

- Yuri Kobets - 12-10-2003

Dracula Thank you very much. This is exactly what I need!

Quote:Btw, I really wish there was some working Delphi Plugin SDK (or a description how to register plugins for TLB, so they will be recognized... I'd write this plugin or any other myself immediately!
As I already told I do not know Delphi - this is problem. But I can say how to register TLB plugins. This is simple on C++ Wink:
1) Register plugin as COM object. To do this you need write in registry some values. Look on
Code:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{FF9535D2-8A59-4372-8B54-A5C3C1AB9BA5}
for Mail Monitor as example.

2) You must use StdComponentCategoriesMgr to register plugin in the COM cathegory. Here is C++ code:
[code]

CATID CATID_TLBBUTTONS = { /* 49e86696-eaa6-45a2-9480-c78c013b9713 */


- PsychoMark - 12-11-2003

Thank you Yuri for the short explanation. There was already code in the C++ SDK, but converting that isn't easy if you don't know what it's supposed to do Wink. I'll see if I can work on the Delphi SDK again some time, though I won't promise anything... if anyone else knows COM and Delphi, you can find my initial work somewhere on these forums...

- Yuri Kobets - 12-13-2003

Please try this version of Battery Monitor

There are no installation yet see readme.txt for instructions.