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

I haven't been completely happy with with the volume control in dingo. In dingo alpha 7 it also seems to be hanging onto the mixer device making it hard to run the alsa wizard. I've done some tarting up and it is now nearly equal to Rarsa's original tcl applet.

The pet includes the icons.
It has a -u switch which takes a millisecond parameter for how long to wait between checking the current volume and updating the icon if necessary. By default this is off to avoid the alsa wizard problem and to minimise processor load.
The slider disappears automatically when you move the focus to another window.
The volume is updated as you move the slider rather than just when you let go of it.
I have removed the -bg option to set the background, it now works properly with gtk transparency and the citrus theme in the latest dingo.

If you want to mess with the icons they are in the same place as earlier pups in /usr/local/lib/X11/mini-icons

The source tar is available at
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/wmd04r/puppy/AbsVolume_1.0_puppytray-0.8.tgz

The command to start it is
absvolume
When you restart X it should start automatically

Joshas · Joined: 21 Jan 2008 Posts: 26

Awesome. Just the thing I need. Compiled on Puppy 3.01, but there's a problem. When I set volume by dragging slider - I get this error:

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

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4776 Location: GB

Whilst you're at it HW, maybe you can look at an opposite problem to Jos, please? I think it may have been discussed previously but couldn't find it amongst the millions of sound issues reported. I cannot get the Master Volume slider to stick. It constantly remains at 100%. Even if workarounds have been suggested, this has been an issue for so long that it's worth getting a permanent fix?

Joshas · Joined: 21 Jan 2008 Posts: 26

disciple · Posted: Mon 24 Mar 2008, 23:54 Post subject:

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

I though I'd posted a reply to this.
I must have missed the submit button.

Though I converted the original absvolume to work in the tray for puppy I still have no understanding of how sound works, I just copied the relevant bits of code. The code is not particularly large or complicated for someone who has a rudimentary knowledge of C wishes to prod. You probably want to put some debugging output into the event handlers in interface.c. It is hard for me to debug because I have working sound and don't understand the fine details of the sound related stuff.

Joshas the error you are describing looks like a gtk problem. Moving the slider with the scrollwheel or by dragging fires the same event handling code. Is it possible for you to test my compiled code on a clean puppy install to ensure that the problem is hardware and not your software environment?

Joshas · Joined: 21 Jan 2008 Posts: 26

Original Absvolume works without errors. Maybe something was altered, when porting the code? I'll have a look in the patched code, when I finnaly set up my development enviroment.

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

I strongly suspect that this is a gtk problem not a problem with the sound setup. It would be very helpful if you could test it in a clean install or just boot from CD with pfix=ram so that I can replicate your software setup.

Joshas · Joined: 21 Jan 2008 Posts: 26

Testing on clean install gives me the same errors. I think that this bug is not very important, after (if ever) you'll add an option to select mixer by passing a parameter in command line.

disciple · Posted: Fri 16 Oct 2009, 22:00 Post subject: later versions of absvolume

If anyone ever plays around with absvolume they might like to look at the latest versions from the original author as well (I presume this is the original author - unless it is a different absvolume)
http://www.pcbypaul.com/software/absvolume.html

BTW see http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=37061343&t=46183 if you want to extract the slackware binaries

Blesphemy206 · Joined: 18 Feb 2011 Posts: 5

Haven't had any issues with the newest versions. Was this something that ended up being a big deal, or did it pass over with not much worry? I'm pretty new to this, ut I do believe in learning through history...

disciple · Posted: Fri 18 Feb 2011, 19:24 Post subject:

darkcity · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 2434 Location: near here

Pet won't install on luci 5.29 puppy

also should this topic be shifted to multi -media?

goingnuts · Joined: 07 Dec 2008 Posts: 779

Source link in first post down - anybody have a copy of HairyWill´s source?
I found the original source via wayback machine.
Attached it for future reference...