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brad_chuck · Posted: Sun 14 Dec 2008, 21:34 Post subject:

The "event" program does not have to be a script. Write it in c... have fun with that.

The idea is that YOU get to make the "event" program do whatever you would like. I like shell scripts.

The script I provided was just an example. Will have to work on a "production" in the next few weeks. Any help here would be great.

HairyWill - Thanks for the icon tip this will help.

Still have to work on a few things. Will have another "preview" out soon.

Dougal · Posted: Mon 15 Dec 2008, 07:11 Post subject:

Dougal · Posted: Mon 15 Dec 2008, 07:30 Post subject:

I've made another couple of updates:
0.2: adds checking for info in /sys/class/power_supply.
I hope the rate code is ok, as I'm testing with a bad bios that doesn't supply the rate info.

0.2.1: adds use of the GlossyPower icons linked in the previous page (so it has 10 different battery icons). We still probably need to find a nicer "online" icon.
Note that the icons are originally huge (518 pixels tall), so I just scaled them to 1/20 and they are now 26 pixels tall and about 12 wide. What this means is that they get stretched a little horizontally and the battery looks a little fat... this can be solved by just editing them manually and extending the size of the canvas.

If anybody want APM support, it could help if they post here the output of "cat /proc/apm".

Ive also gone on to implement support for multiple batteries, but wasn't sure exactly how to present the data: I currently present a total (an average of charge percentage and a sum of the times), but wasn't sure if it's correct/the best way.

Tid · Joined: 09 Dec 2008 Posts: 16 Location: Canton, OH USA

Does anyone know where I can get the traditional woof woof sound? I like the idea of adding the bark when the battery is getting low.

Dougal, check out these battery icons!! http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/WIreless%2BBattery+Icon?content=93465

smokey01 · Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 1642 Location: South Australia

HairyWill · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2949 Location: Southampton, UK

Tid · Joined: 09 Dec 2008 Posts: 16 Location: Canton, OH USA

If I'm running pbatt-0.2.1 how would I write the logic to play the 2barks.au audio (woof woof) when the "charge now" box pops up?

Also, I believe it would go here in the code somewhere but I'm not sure?

brad_chuck · Posted: Fri 19 Dec 2008, 00:51 Post subject:

Dougal - Your changes look great! Thanks for the input.

I hope to be able to work on this soon.

The plant I work at is shutting down for Christmas and they are letting the engineers off too!

I have to come up with some way to check both icon and tool tip with one call of the script.

Any ideas?

Just a new line? ie

Dougal · Posted: Sun 21 Dec 2008, 07:03 Post subject:

I've made some more changes:
- I added the -u/--update option to the binary, to set the interval it checks the state (the default I set to 5 seconds).
- I made an attempt to add support for APM to the bevent script. (this is untested, as in my case the laptop is completely disfunctional when booting with APM...)
- The bevent script should support multiple batteries (with acpi). Not tested.

brad_chuck · Posted: Thu 26 Mar 2009, 17:21 Post subject:

Just so we don't duplicate work on this...

I am working on a pure Vala "C" implementation of PBatt.

I will be using the input from Dougal and HairyWill among other on this.

Check back in a few weeks...

vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1239 Location: Ukraine

Dear brad_chuck,

I tried compiling your pbatt prog in puppy 3.01 and got and error relating to "g_timeout_add_seconds". That is a function present in glib 2.14 and not in 2.10. The workaround for me was as follows - in line 75:

brad_chuck · Posted: Thu 26 Mar 2009, 22:24 Post subject:

Good to know. Thanks vovchik, I will not use g_timeout_add_seconds in the new program.

Thanks for the tip.

Dougal · Posted: Fri 27 Mar 2009, 06:25 Post subject:

brad_chuck · Posted: Fri 27 Mar 2009, 21:29 Post subject:

command line switch...