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[Laszlo]

[tic]

Simple curves may already be created with the TrayBars function. try this code. it will give a moving wave:

[majkinetor]

[tic]

I agree maj that it would be neice to plot points and not have to add each new point if not wanted and will add that, but I dont think that they should all be 1 function. They should all be included in 1 file, but say I want use the bar part but not the number part, then that is an awful lot of code to include and not use. I believe they should all be included in an ahk file, and then a function can be deleted if necessary.

I also think that the part that sets the tray icon and the filedelete should be removed. I have been playing more, and have been using it with adding pictures at 256*256 and guicontrolling them, and it works very well. I will release all my new additions later and I think you'll see that its nice just to create a compatible ico, and then let the user decide what they wish to do with it.

[majkinetor]

Very nice.

I will see one of these days to check how much needs to be done for controling tray icons.
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[tic]

As per one of your requests Maj I have added the ability to either shift all the colums along left and add the new parameter to the right, or just add a new column on the left hand side:

http://www.autohotkey.net/~tic/tic-TrayBars-1.05.zip

I will update the 1st post when I have finished with these current updates.

I have removed the trayicon command and filedelete from the end of the function, as I feel the user should be given the option with what they want to do with the created icon. the example shows of its use.

I have added the ability for the numbers part to specify either + or < as the 1st character. Specifying + will add a new bar or bars to the end of whatever the last call to the function created, and specifying < will add as many bars as specified, and delete that same number of bars from the left hand side. The new number of colours can be specified for added bars, or optionally only 1 to make all new added bars the same colour (also occurs if fewer colours are specified than numbers). I will soon also add the ability to use > in order to tell them to shift right and - to add new bars to the left.

Currently if you try to immediately set < or + without having any previous values, it will return with errorlevel -4.

Examples of new usage:

[Laszlo]

You might not need it, after all, but you can find the promised Hex2Bin machine code function here.

[Lexikos]

The script takes about half as long to generate the icon when its working with a RAM disk (vs the hard drive.)

I'm sure it would be much faster if you rendered the bars into an in-memory bitmap using GDI, then created the icon from that. GDI's not the simplest beast to figure out, though...

[majkinetor]

I am currently working on Shell_IconNotify encapsulation. I succeded to add arbitrary number of tray icons in the tray menu, but still working on interface and APIs.

I will make sure that you can set icon using path and using HWND. Second option, will make this function able to set icon with temporary files, directly from memory.

So, I suggest you to continue optmisiation in other directions, if thats still needed.

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I played abit with latest version and discovered some thngs.
I was adding with +, like +15 , 3 times, then +50 etc... I noticed that after some time it stops working (after 32 updates).

This + thing you did, is realy nice, we have curves now. Just a little bit polishing and this can go into production stage

BTW, I am suggesting you to update your example with another section, the one that will monitor CPU. You can easily find Laszlos function on the forum.
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[Andreone]

[Lexikos]

Heheheh. Blazingly fast dynamic icon generation, anyone?

[majkinetor]

Thx for your code lex (Lutor?).

[tic]

Yes nice work lex. How have you created a header for the icon? and couldnt gdi+ be used for the transparency part?

Ill wait until I can try out the machine code to see what speed that gives before using some of your code Lex. (I probably have quite a few questions about the code ).Thanks again

[tic]

I just read your edit. I think I've fixed all the bugs with + and < but I may wait to release it when I can get Laszlos machine code integrated.

Please could you help suggest prefixs for the different modes.

I need one to shift everything right, one to shift everything left, one to add a bar to the right, one to add a bar to the left, one to delete a bar from the right and one to delete a bar from the left.

They can be 2 characters if necessary, but they must all be all the same length to make things easier

+> add right?
+< add left?
<< shift left?
>> shift right?
-< remove left?
-> remove right?

thats what i thought it could be, but Id like opinions. When I have done this, the curve part shouldnt take long at all, as itll just be the same code but a bit shorter.

Oh and I will add several new examples. thers one very cool 1 Ive thought of that will remain a secret, but I think you'll find it funny

[tic]

Initial tests with machine code appear good. Lexikos' gdi code can perform 100 loops with no sleep in averaging 344ms on my comp and my machine code example now does it in 981ms average (down from over 9000 lol), and the machine code is creating 32pixel icos not 16 (so they can be added as pictures as well). When reduced to 16 as a test, the machine code could do it in averaging 620ms, and I havent tightened the code yet and there are many extra things added that take time. I will release it when I have fixed some bugs, and created some examples. I would also really like to know which signs people think would be good as prefixs!