Power/battery Meter

Okay, I had a post earlier, but I deleted it. I found what I needed, but now I have a problem again.

I want to change the power/battery meter icon on my laptop. I found the image, which was located in the battmeter.dll file in the system32 folder.

This is what it looks like :

This is what I made of it:

But this is what I get, no matter what I have tried:

Can anyone help me solve this problem.

I have tried saving it in 8 bits and in 24 bits, and it is still the same result.

Thanks,

Jolhof

#19397

The first row looks like 16 colours to me.... not even 256 (8-bit).

Try decreasing colour depth to 16 colours and let me know if it works.

Good luck,

Ken

#19404

Can anyone tell me how to get the battery level icons to work with an aqua osx like object bar using the mac icons?

#19450

It seems that the original bmp is 16 colors, but one should be able to change that, so it will display more than that right?

I mean, other systray icons are 24 bit or more.

Has anyone played with this at all?

#19501

Not necessarily... If the control within the application you're going to change doesn't support more than 16, then you're doomed!

Other systray icons are stored in icon form, which means support for various colour depths and sizes. That battery thingy isn't.

#19502

Hmmm, so I am doomed than I guess. I was really hoping I could give that little booger an overhaul, I guess not

#19503

If you are familiar with programming, you can associate battery status (guess you won't have difficulty in finding some code online) with your icons.

It's the hard way, but...

#19504

Im nto familiar with programming. But has anyone with a laptop associated their battery meter with the black icons on the Mac themed Object bar? I am using Magegurus object bar theme 10.2.4.

Any help greatly appreciated.

#19506

H4rM, I think this link and this one discus what you are talking about I think.

Appearantly what I am trying to do is not possible. So my next question is then, can I make samurise display my battery status?

#19603

Samurize is not a good option... You can't change pictures dynamically.

In order to refresh a picture (such as in weather scripts) Samurize is being shut down and restarted. It's ok if it's done once every one hour (perfect for a weather script), but battery status needs to be refreshed more frequently.

#19613

So, are there any out there. Is there a program that can tell me the status of the battery. and/or is there a way to change the bmp's withing the dll file that can display full color images.

I have to admit, I am surprised I haven't heard anything from any of the other modding wizards that would usually tackle such an issue.

#19616