Battery Object
Friday, September 19, 2003 by Bryan Cooke | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Looking to create a battery object - time / percent remaining, graphical representation, etc. I seem to be running into dead ends on ways to query battery status from the system. Does anyone know of a good way to do this?
TIA,
Bryan
TIA,
Bryan
BoXXi
Reply #2 Friday, September 19, 2003 11:52 AM
Reply #2 Friday, September 19, 2003 11:52 AM
Spooky!!! Give me back my name you thief!! hahaha.....
Dreamdesign3d
Reply #3 Friday, September 19, 2003 2:37 PM
Reply #3 Friday, September 19, 2003 2:37 PM
I think I made a small .exe for that about 2 years ago.
Bryan Cooke
Reply #4 Monday, September 22, 2003 5:34 AM
Reply #4 Monday, September 22, 2003 5:34 AM
Anyone else have any ideas on this or some code that I could look at.
pjpowell
Reply #5 Monday, September 22, 2003 6:31 AM
Reply #5 Monday, September 22, 2003 6:31 AM
Could probably do it through DesktopX using WMI. Think I saw mention of it somewhere in the long lists of what you can query.
Take a look at http://pjpowell.dyndns.org/DX-WMI/WMI_and_how_it_impacts_on_DesktopX.htm for some info on getting started. I will be taking a look at this myself also as it seems a good idea for an object.
Take a look at http://pjpowell.dyndns.org/DX-WMI/WMI_and_how_it_impacts_on_DesktopX.htm for some info on getting started. I will be taking a look at this myself also as it seems a good idea for an object.
XX
Reply #6 Monday, September 22, 2003 8:37 AM
Reply #6 Monday, September 22, 2003 8:37 AM
There IS a plugin that can show battery percent. It's called performance meter. It works well for me.
Bryan Cooke
Reply #7 Tuesday, September 23, 2003 6:21 AM
Reply #7 Tuesday, September 23, 2003 6:21 AM
Thanks guys, I've tried using WMI, but I seem to get a lot of nothing when I query the battery object. I've also experimented a little with the new meter plugin. Does anyone know where you can find documentation for these plugins. Like what methods and properties are available from them.
Later
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Reply #1 Friday, September 19, 2003 11:23 AM