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Hi,

I was busy working on the system info plugin... I tried to implement a cpu monitor much like the task manager. I now created a class derived from LCDBitmap that created a line graph with veriable step rates, size selectable grid in the background and custom sized graphs... I am almost finished with this. I think this might be a usefull class to include in the display items unit instead of just in one plugin. This will allow more plugins to display graphs of different stats in there plugins? Will mail it to henri when done. Hope its usefull

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Rudi Grobler

Sounds good. Or should I say looks good as I just checked the plugin you sent me and the graph looks very nice.

And you're right that it would be nice to have displayitem for graphs that would allow graphing any numerical variables. In fact I have been planning this for a long time but haven't started it yet as there have been so many other things. But now you have already done the graphing code, only need to add it as new displayitem.

I have also mailed the new version for you. The update can be configured to have a grid in different sizes or have a border too. The step size also looks better if it is 4 pixels and not 8. Hope you can use it!

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Rudi Grobler

Does anybody have any suggestions on how to retrieve the current processor usage? The only way that I can currently find is to hook into the performance monitor? Any sugestions???

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Rudi Grobler

i think there is an api call in Visual C++
oups sorry yu use borland

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as i remember. this is like some kind of retrieving perfomance monitor value from API ...
i think codeproject.com have some articles about them...

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Grrr....

This is correct. This can then become a plugin on its own. You can then monitor anything you want. From hard drive write cycles to cpu usage...

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Rudi Grobler

Where can we find your plugin Rubi?

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Not finished yet. Will post as soon as I have a usefull base!!!

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Rudi Grobler

Hi,

I updated the system info plugin. I added a new unit called hdrive, which does some general hard drive check (eg. total space, free space, etc). I changed Graph to BarGraph and added a PieGraph. I also made new plugin text to display a string that just tells you how much space you have left on a hard drive. I then made a pluginimage to display the pie graph of space left of the c drive and the d drive!!

Please note that at this state I check if the drive is fixed. If not, it doesn't do anything!!! So if the drive is removable, it will not display info yet. If the pie graph is shown of a drive that doesn't exist or are removable. It will show a 0% free graph!! This will be fixed soon.

I mailed this to henri, after his aproval, it will hopefully be released

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Rudi Grobler

If i remember well, cdrom drive arent removable driver, how do you manage them?
no removable drive :'(

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Yes cdrom is not a fixed drive and I do not support it yet...

The GetDriveType function returns DRIVE_CDROM if the drive is a cdrom and DRIVE_FIXED if the drive is a fixed hard drive... I only accept DRIVE_FIXED for now. Will update it soon...

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Rudi Grobler

ok
it's good to know
can you give some informations about the pictures, sizes? type of pie chart?
beautifull circle with two lines and a small text saying '45%' ?

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The following new exports for the Sysinfo plugin:



I have only added support for drive c and d so far... Will add more... Whould have been nice if i could have said "SysInfo.HDDgraph(0)" so that it takes varaibles???

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Rudi Grobler

same thing for me and emule
how do i know the size of the chart the use want?, i have to put some fixed sizes

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