User Manual - Stone Oakvalley Studios
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1. have no idea what its for but somebody needed it Anyway it was just a checkmark in the PureBasic Compiler Added Added Improved Fixed Fixed Added v1 07 Improved Added Added Improved Added Changed Changed Added Changed Added A Detected Drives listview in the Drives and Icons Configuration window to let the user know what drives are scanned by floatled what is present without no disk in it and those which are not scanned and supported by FloatLED Only tested for HDD FDD Flash Network CD ROM RAM DISK any other l have no idea what happens Option to turn off completely the HDD Detect Interval seconds as this function WOULD also scan through network mapped drives as well It was also renamed to Turn off Device Detect Interval in ini since we can detect flash based devices now as well non spinning Note that turning OFF the Device Detect Interval seconds will ignore the Auto Hide Disconnected as this function is 100 dependent on that 10 sec default scanning of all DRIVETYPES found in your system Some users reported network chatter by FloatLED must state that there is no network code added in my code however certain API commands use from MSDN WILL regardlessly scan the system for what is Physical Drive Removable Drive Floppy Drive CD ROM Network Drive etc So now the main routine only scans the known disks found in the syst2. Here are a number of different ways FloatLED can appear on your screen Showing TwoRow Minimize button Vertical or Horizonal Small Indication Box Separator lines and Transperancy Right click on the FloatLED window to get the menu View FloatLED Documentation About FloatLED v1 11 July 2011 Configure Drives and Icons Configure Window Options Set Window On Top once Lock Unlock Window Position Save Window Position Always Show TrayIcon Restore FloatLED defaults Exit Disable Window On Top once Minimize To Tray and Disable Activity Uninstall FloatLED About FloatLED revision amp date View FloatLED Documentation Configure Drives and Icons Configure Window Options Make a donation through PayPal Show some info about FloatLED Opens up the documentation file From V1 07 it s PDF previous versions RTF Configure Auto Non Auto Show Hide drives and Icon Colors and sizes Configure Vertical Mode on off Minimize Button on off icon click configuration Set Window On Top once Will make FloatLED front most window on top once Although some software might override it over time Like Adobe CS2 Please also see the Make window always persistant function Will turn of the front most on top window functionality It works like any other window now and falls behind others Lock FloatLED s window position and make it undraggable Saves the window position Minimize and
3. Remember that there are millions of ways how people organize their desktop system and such FloatLED was designed and tested for many years on completely standard Windows installations and performed excellent Several changes was done to the main loop for V1 04 hopefully closing the lid on OS Hibernation Sleep or CPU usage problems as reported in V1 02 V1 03 From V1 04 through V1 07 most updates to FloatLED concerned very minor bugfixes but mostly improvements and expansion of options for the user regarding visability or the logic of FloatLED to behave as human understandable as possible V1 08 and above should now not produce any network chatter as reported by several users FloatLED ini file contents by default FloatLED v1 12 November 2011 by Stone Oakvalley Studios http floatled stone oakvalley studios com Settings Wi nX 627 Wi nY 150 Locked No Auto Hide Disconnected No Explore Drive With Mouse Button 3 Vertical Mode No Show Icon Lines Yes Show Small Square On Icon Yes Drives 11111111111111111111111111 ReadColor 00D800 WriteColor FF2626 BackColor 000000 Text Color FFFFFF lconSize 1 ustom conSize 10 indow Transperancy 255 evice Detect Interval seconds 10 urn off Device Detect Interval No inimize Button No ersistant Window No ick Through No ual Icon Window Mode No indow Snap and Limiting Yes gnore On Top upon First Time Run No ways Show Traylc
4. Also a small fix where the icon size defaulted back to 30 instead of 10 A minor loop during the Configure Drives and Icons causing FloatLED to drain 25 of CPU Time Not anymore 26 March 2011 Fantastic update a k a Major Update again flash devices now supported Recompiled and changed some code to comply with official and final PureBasic V4 51 release Now supports memory based flash cards usb sticks and typical NON SPINNING flash memory devices Old school floppy drive IS spinning and therefore it should not been mixed with the same flag also covering non spinning devices such as memory stick This is a strange design by Microsoft http msdn microsoft com en us library aa364939 28v vs 85 29 aspx It says that DRIVE_REMOVABLE can either be The drive has removable media for example a floppy drive thumb drive or flash card reader THIS IS WRONG LOGIC M _SHOULD_ and cannot stress this much enough S H O U L D make a new flag at the bottom of the list indicating real thumb drive or flash card reader They should leave the old school flag of a real HARD MOUNTED FLOPPY SPINNING device in its own category This makes no sense at all and this is a SERIOUS logic flaw in all of the Window s OS s It goes against its own specification Anyway adding some more code to FloatLED took care of filtering out Floppy from Flash Based assigned devices that has no media in it and it do remind me of how Microsoft prog
5. and www 6581 8580 com It s really insane and heaven if you are into nostalgic chip and computer music And yes it is the biggest one ever created During the coding of V1 08 I took a small break off to contact Microsoft Microsoft never answered my question about the official eye exam proof for the designers of ClearText am positive that ClearText or No ClearText especially in Windows 7 will CAUSE eye constrain resulting in eye pain and immense headache many people report that To me ClearText is awful can see every color on a single pixel and differentiate them making every letter in ClearText become blurry and fuzzy irritating to me therefore wanted to know if there is a eye exam available for the designers of ClearText cause their eyes are for certain different than mine and have had good sight all my life and no glasses needed until Windows 7 appear and give me headaches Within a few month will take a eye exam and if my eyes are 20 20 good to go want to forward this to M and DEMAND an eye exam of those designers of ClearText as well Now after V1 11 was released in July 2011 M never answered by request so suppose stepped on a sore toe or shall pun it and say sore eye rather haha
6. it now reads in Human Readable Text Yes or No instead Not case sensitive If anything else is detected than Yes or No it s set to No by default INI entry HDD Detect Interval to HDD Detect Interval seconds so it s understandable what s going on A bug causing FloatLED to either show garble drive icons or actually crash totally if the user said No to a question to exit FloatLED from the menu Make up your mind god dammit A window behaviour window snap feature to make sure FloatLED don t wander off screen during nasty configuration by the user or by manual hacking in the INI file If FloatLED is moved outside borders it will make sure it stays 100 visible in length or height Dual Icon Window Mode Row or Column when applicable functionality works as Drive Shown 2 So if you have 8 drives it gets 4 by 4 in 2 rows Support both horizontal and vertical modes Minimize button is scaled accordingly but if you got only 5 drives shown you ll get one grey area of nothingness More real time changes when you click any option in the Config Windows Neat to vitness Cancel Changes button in both Config Windows as find the function and meaning more or less useless Another reason was that most of the changes are done realtime now so you see what happens anyway U buttons as in Undo Color Change for each of the Color Options you could change This had to be crea
7. of icon instead Looks pretty good now OS check flags for Window 2003 and 2008 was added FloatLED denied to start itself if not Tested on plain installs of Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 No problems Tested on local machines for 1 week no issues detected 24 January 2009 Major update Features added to FloatLED based on forum posts and email inputs from worldwide users along With my own ideas and bug fixes although only one bug since v1 01 Actually v1 02 was half done during July 2007 and have been in testing up till January 2009 Update v1 01 to v1 02 was done during 3 days ca 12 hours of coding Recompiled and change source where needed for complying with Pure Basic v4 20 engine Replaced ReadMe txt with RTF file instead Readme_v1 02 rtf with more documentation Cleaned up the menu design Added Menu Bars to better group functions of FloatLED visually Window position could be reset to 0 0 sometimes Fixed now Change Change Added Added Added Added Added Added Added Ignored v1 01 Bug Fix Added Completely rewrote the automatic HARD DISK Detection and visibility of the drive icons In previous versions of FloatLED ONLY drives detected in the system was shown as drive icons The rest was always hidden from view This has now changed to the following All 24 drive icons are by default shown This can be configured by user If a drive is detected a small colored square same color as us
8. programmed in C by Svein Engelsgjerd http www dirtcellar net Thanks for the positive and constructive feedback from worldwide users You brought forward new ideas and wishes for FloatLED during 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Awards http www softpedia com progClean FloatLED Clean 36486 html http floatled software informer com awards If you Google for FloatLED stay away from any other site than my own Softpedia and Software informer Basically just hit one of the 3 top most results and you are safe Regards Stone Oakvalley www stone oakvalley studios com post stone oakvalley studios com For updates forum older versions manual visit http floatled stone oakvalley studios com or to steal some hours of your time why not visit the ever lasting amazeness of my other sites http www stone oakvalley studios com http www youtube com profile user StoneOakvalley http realm stone oakvalley studios com http www paula8364 com http www 6581 8580 com http www commoradio net http www ylvathewolf com http www moonfevermovie com http www trekranen com norwegian language only http www thenorwegianwedding com Trivia and or just random garble rants How in the world did manage to write 16 pages documentation for such an simple software wanted to release FloatLED v1 02 earlier but it turned out that evening became night and night became early morning the day started working on the v1 02 thus cau
9. some reason This seems to be OS defaulted to OFF in certain Windows 2003 versions or installations To enable the counter and to know more check this link Remember to restart after you ve done the procedure http Awww windowsnetworking com nt nt2000 atips atips25 shtml Or if you don t care just run cmd via START RUN on the OS menu and type diskperf y and press enter See the result and restart your system FloatLED should now happily show activity on the icons Q FloatLED icons flicker like insane insanity from the beyond the insanity itself and seems messed up A This is because the window on top feature tries hard to get your attention But other full screen applications want your attention too and are doing so much faster than the standard window gadgets do This is often seen in games To fix this just choose the Disable Window On Top once from the FloatLED menu and make sure you really disabled the Persistant Window in the Window Config panel too To reset FloatLED back to defaults Option 1 Just delete the FloatLED ini file within the FloatLED installation directory and restart FloatLED No problem Option 2 Choose the Restore FloatLED defaults from the right click menu Everything is saved automatically Known issues or bugs Can t think of any right now mostly nothing left unsolved in the forums or via emails either It does not mean it will behave successfully in your system
10. startup That means Win3 11 Win95 Win98 Win98SE and WinME and we might throw in DOS too but that error message is not mine Does monitor Physical SATA and IDE HD drives Physical USB removable SATA IDE HD drives Removable USB Memory Sticks SD memory cards and similar flash based disks Only for Windows Vista and above Does NOT monitor Floppy Drives even those USB Floppy Drives CD ROM DVD ROM drives Network Drives or Network Activity SUBST d drive letters If you try to SUBST B to a physical drive the B would not be monitored but rather the disk is was SUBST d to Just the way it is Possibly other non standard Windows HD setups like 3rd party encrypted compressed volume configurations Rules for developing FloatLED An alternative to those other similar priced amp bloated Hard Drive LED software on the market Make FloatLED completely FREEWARE Donations however accepted but by far not required No bloating no ugly childish graphics bad designed graphics no bells no whistles nor sounds No skinned windows typical of designers thinking they have created the next big thing within GUI design and layout Just plain useful and shows JUST exactly what it was intended to show Drive ACTIVITY Super space optimized intelligent design and no tray icon filler Use very low or no CPU Time at all Clean install INI prefs single exe portable too no registry entries
11. 0 0 9 which now has magically been set to V1 1 1 0 in regards of the current version While pressing U button during color changes within the Configure Drives and Icons window it will also show it realtime It was probably forgotten in a previous version of FloatLED so here it is at least now This will probably be the last FloatLED version ever to be worked upon feel the software is 100 now by the help of many users posting suggestions and bug reports Thank you so much we made it together and for now it s time to close the lid on FloatLED updates and leave it as a magical piece of free software that puts the word FREE back into it s rightfull place in the madness of internet combined with software world that has gradually saturated the feel and look of free software as some claim to pose will now close my eyes and imagine there is no bloating in the internet and software GUI design world along with the destructors of what free software once was And oh I m getting married later this year and my time will be focused on totally other things than nursing FloatLED even more Fullscreen option Checking FloatLED with USB3 0 devices Spindown detection gray out icons 01 May 2011 Fixing the fixes Figured out that Flash Media Acitivty is only available for Windows Vista and Windows 7 Seems that M changed some code indeed Reworked all the code involving floppy drive detection mixed with Flash Media s All fl
12. DriveLetter DriveName Filesystem and Free MB Total MB or not found in system 22 August 2009 Recompiled and changed some code to comply with official and final PureBasic V4 30 release Vertical mode for window and icons Brought back the auto HD detection scale window mode as in 1 02 and thus removing the little notch box during this configuration Main and sub loops reconstructed rewritten to handle events more silently hopefully causing cpu time usage reported to drop to near zero or at least over time in average Changed Changed Added Added Added Added Improved Testing v1 03 Removed Removed Changed Added Testing v1 02 Intro Update Update Update Bug Fix Put menu choices that belong to configuring of drives into the Configure Drives window instead of filling up menu Put Window Config Options into its own window instead of filling up menu Added drive explore behavior with option of LEFTDOUBLE CLICK or SINGLE MIDDLE BUTTON Changed some text elements on the menu WindowOnTop is now spelled Window On Top Added menu item for documentation file Option to show or hide separator line between icons Drive Window Config loop It was put into a sub loop causing some delay when configuring drives Ouch Bad mistake Tested on plain installs of Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 No problems Tested on local machines for 1 week no issues detected 14 February 2009 Adju
13. GHIJKLMNOPQRSTUWXYZ which is also the max in the operating system Installation amp Usage Use the provided installer to install it a menu group will be made with FloatLED exe ReadMe_vx xx pdf and the Uninstall option along with the fact that the installer will add a entry in the Startup folder so FloatLED start with Windows each time To disable this just run msconfig and uncheck it from the Startup pane The size of the window is 18 24 or 30 pixel in height as default Or size it up yourself from 10 to 1024 pixels If you have one drive the icon window will only be 26x18 pixels big horizontal or vertical in default mode and including the minimize button Place it somewhere on you screen where it would not be in any way of your workflow Or just activate the click through feature and you can click behind FloatLED too The FloatLED window default ale ic io je r ajH 13 k i IMiNjojplajRis tjuly iw xy 2 The FloatLED window in action GORD Will light up whenever there is activity on the selected drives FloatLED supports click and drag window to position it Click once in the FloatLED window and drag it Clicking on a drive icon in the window will open its contents with explorer in root folder or button will minimize FloatLED to a tray icon Note Visuality and operation will be based on your choices made in the Config Panels Other FloatLED window appearances
14. Oye i FloatLED v1 12 November 2011 One of the few Drive LED software on the market that does what it is supposed to do Show drive activity and that s it logo product name and software copyright C Stone Oakvalley Studios 2011 http floatled stone oakvalley studios com What is the use of it Your regular drive LED on the hardware PC only have 1 physical LED light meaning you d never know if there was activity on another partition or physical drive Think of it we are in 2011 and still just one light If your laptop or desktop PC has a defective LED you are hereby saved by FloatLED don t really want to break my neck trying to see activity of the drive located down and right below underneath the table in the dark We _look_ at the screen so naturally drive LEDs should be located there too Microsoft don t steal my ideas for intuition improvements If you want you can buy FloatLED source code for a couple of million It s just so cool to have full control of what the OS is doing to our drives isn t it You are remotely positioned away from computer server setups and can t see or hear the drive working and need to know what s going on Should work as intended in WindowsXP Home Pro Win2000 Win2008 Win2003 Windows Vista and Windows 7 diskperf y may need to be performed from dos command It won t even try to start on older Window OS s as FloatLED checks the Window version upon
15. ach 0 5sec J Prevent window on top upon first time run Set Window Transperancy Vertical Window Mode Will allow to display all icons vertically if checked Default off is horizontally Dual Icon Window Mode Will allow to display all icons in a two row or two columns It s divided of available drives shown 2 Show Minimize Button Will add a small minimize button at the end of the FloatLED window Enable Click Through disables Left Double Click below Will enable the click through feature Mixed with transperancy option you can now click regular windows and stuff underneath FloatLED Due to the function to work correctly a brief flash is seen in of entire FloatLED window as you click Note As this function interfere with the function below that function will be disabled Use Left Double Click to Explore Drive Will explore a drive when user clicks on any drive icon twice Note If the Click Through was selected above this function will be disabled and the Middle Single Click will be chosen instead Use Middle Single Click to Explore Drive Will explore a drive when user clicks on any drive icon Enable Automatic Window Snap and Limiting Will force the FloatLED window to automatically snap to edges of screen be that multi or single screen When this option is checked note that you are unable to place the FloatLED window on top of the Taskbar area whereever it is placed on your screen This is by FloatLED
16. and no hidden code and extremely stable Conclusion just reached those goals An fine example of a serious project and a superb end result Some insight into the existence of FloatLED There were some useful alternatives out there but they was not in my opinion thoughtfully tuned designed to what the software was really trying to accomplish It should be out of workspace non interrupting easy non bloated or contain other functionalities that do not belong in such a software Putting it into the tray is also not a good idea because some people auto hide their taskbar Their software would be useless The solution was to have an on top drag able and lock position window functionality The design of the LED was also thought hard of Other software seemed to bloat the graphics making the LED look like LEDs in the real world with chrome borders and artwork taking up those precious pixels why oh why Just because Apple have a shitload of air in their artwork it don t mean the rest of the hurd have to follow you know Just show LED activity with read write and read write the Drive volume letter as small as possible and as clear graphics Simple So FloatLED was invented and created It will show all the volume letters in the system as blinking graphical icons simulating Read Write or both at the same time If you have 1 HD with 2 partitions these will be shown as C amp D for instance The maximum amount of LED s is 26 ABCDEF
17. ash disks should appear as intended now on Vista and above Fixed Notice v1 09 Improved Fixed Fixed v1 08 Improved Added Changed Added Added Added Minor problem with tooltip not working properly if the drive scanned did not have any label volumename defined Discovered that adding a USB floppy device to the system will seriously confuze FloatLED and report it back as a regular Flash Drive and even confuze the available drive list There is no good way to detect USB floppy as its return values interfere with those of regular Flash Based Media It can all be traced back to Microsoft and their way of handling a SPINNING media and placing it under REMOVEABLE drive together with NON SPINNING REMOVABLE DRIVE Users with USB Floppies just have to live with it a different solution is to scan hardware registry and deeper but it just complicates the operation of FloatLED 23 April 2011 The detection of flash disks if there was no physical floppy drive in the users system Removed the checking for serialnumber as not all flash things seem to have this Sorry all trusted users failed you in a way but only if you didn t have a good old school floppy installed hehe can t live without a floppy it s like the perfect emergency measure left on earth if the PC fail for some reason A minor coloring bug of the drives available for scanning not available and no disk inserted in the Assigned Drives window list
18. d for instance Probably the INI file would go wander off into oblivion too Transperancy to FloatLED window Tested with Win2003 WINXP VISTA WIN7 The text Set Window On Top to Set Window On Top once in the menu just to point out it s done once and not any persitant behavior The text Disable Window On Top to Disable Window On Top once in the menu just to point out it s done once and not any persitant behavior A menu choice to my website and into the menu giving happy users to donate some cash through my PayPal account No it won t be a shareware or buy it software in future don t worry Documention into PDF instead of RTF The Office package and wordpad gives me literally the creps in terms of helpful formatting and the awfullness of Rich Text Technlogy just makes me wonder why it even has to exist It s flat out just awful to work with Click through feature it s selectable by ON OFF in the Window Config This feature will in that case disable the Use Left Double Click to Explore Drive as it would of course interfere if the user click two times through the FloatLED window Changed Changed Fixed Added Added Added Removed Added Fixed Fixed Improved v1 06 Improved Improved v1 05 Added Added v1 04 Improved Added Added Improved Values in INI files that previously show 0 or 1 We live in a material world and am a material boy so
19. d the automatic detection of drives use this to turn the checking off completely It means that no icons will disappear or appear even if you add drives to the system Use Drive Icon Size Will preset the size of the drive icons by FloatLED default suggestions Use Custom Icon Size Enables you to scale the icons from 10 to 1024 pixels in height width If you have 26 drives expect a veeeeery long line Configure Icon Colors Allows for custom coloring of the Read Write Background and Text colors The color box is the current color used You may adjust them by clicking the appropriate button to see realtime changes Press the U to undo to the last saved color Assigned Drives Will show drives that are assigned in your system RED unsupported not monitored Green Supported for monitoring Gray Supported for monitoring but no disk inserted yet typical for Multi Card Flash Readers Save Changes Saves your configuration exits window and resumes disk activity Configure Window Options Most of the changes done here are done in realtime preview so you know what to expect when you click Save Changes Picture is sample only J Vertical Window Mode I Dual Icon Window Mode J Show Minimize Button I Enable Click Through disables Left Double Click below Use Left Double Click to Explore Drive Use Middle Single Click to Explore Drive I Enable Automatic Window Snap and Limiting Make window always persistant on top e
20. defaults checked on as it seems the most secure option for any first time user Make window always persistant on top each 0 5sec Will force the FloatLED window to appear on top at all times every 0 5 seconds This function is very aggressive and could in some cases interfere with your fullscreen applications and games If you also have the desire to put FloatLED on top of your Taskbar area whereever it is placed you can be sure that FloatLED will fight for it s right to live ehh float with this option checked on Prevent window on top upon first time run Normally FloatLED would get on top priorty upon first time run above all other windows running at that time Here you can deactivate this feature and presumably kill the essence of the software which is the urge to Float Set Window Transperancy Will enable the FloatLED window to become transparent and show whatever is underneath it The value can be adjusted from 10 255 A value of 255 is off Mixed with the Click Through feature this can be a very effective way to make FloatLED really transparent in both visability and usage prevents FloatLED to obscure your other windows that much Save Changes Saves your configuration exits window and resumes disk activity Troubleshooting Q FloatLED was installed and seem to be running fine but there is no activity on the LEDs A This is caused by a registry setting called Disk Performance Counter which is probably disabled for
21. disable the drive detection making FloatLED completely dead until you double click the icon again bringing up the FloatLED window Will add an icon to the Tray along with the regular menu option so access is convenient Disable Window On Top once Lock Unlock Window Position Save Window Position Minimize To Tray and Disable Act Always Show Traylcon Restore FloatLED defaults Exit Will reset everything back to author choices of FloatLED initial design Overwrites all settings Exit and saves the settings Worlds first uninstaller ever would say Though it would be useful and inspirational for others to copycat Make a donation through PayPal Several happy users from around the world loves FloatLED so much they want to donate It will take you to my FloatLED website where there is a PayPal donation link where you can enter any amont of you feel Update 2011 Thanks to the generous donations have received from people around the world I m not a multi millionarie yet but keep at it someday its reachable and I ll invite you all to my exotic party island for drinks music and dance into the morning and beyond Note Every changes choice made by user is saved automatically in the preference file FloatLED ini Configure Drives and Icons Menu All changes are performed in realtime so you know what to expect when you click Save Changes Picture is example only Drives and Icons Configuration Ve WH R
22. ectory called C FloatLED should take care of those who has the UAC popup window upon boot or that FloatLED does not seem to autostart itself even if the installer cleary does that automatically for you IMHO UAC is a annoying piece of garbage which should have no life in the computer world Use a decent virus killer application to secure and provide transparant functionality to Windows Vista Windows 7 as we always was used to in Windows XP UAC is for new computer people that should not use computers at all and by saying that the point is totally clear It s pointless to have just turn it off which by the way makes all of the above totally void and null anyway A rare incident that if Two Row modes was selected and the user had 3 drives unchecking one of these would leave the window just showing 1 instead of 2 Now it will show 2 icons correctly in both Two Row modes Added defined background color to the normally gray area left by an Two Row mode together with an odd number of drives The icon has no effect and is just a graphical preference Text in menu Minimize To Tray to Minimize To Tray and Disable Activity because that is what it does A persistant Tray Icon for those who have the need to see that FloatLED is actually running The icon if right clicked will show the regular menu as you would expect if you did it in the FloatLED window Revision string for FILE PRODUCT VERSION was wrong in v1 10 It still said V1
23. ed on the drive letter and line separator color which follows user choices if changed will appear in the drive icon s top right area indicating it is active in the OS No square means the disk is not detected by the OS This new approach of showing ALL drive icons even it it s not detected will let the user decide what drive icons to show regardless It allows the user to have more freedom to have a known hard disk like an USB drive visible at all times if it s being plugged in and out a lot Prevents automatic resizing of the FloatLED window FloatLED will check for new drives each xx sec set in the INI file to 10 sec by default You may edit it yourselves by editing the entry HDD Detect Interval in the FloatLED ini The value should be set in seconds Min value is 10 sec and Max value is 10000 sec 166 66666 minutes If FloatLED was already running nothing happens i e prevents multiple instances of it On previous versions a nagging requester came up but seen no point in that anymore A minimalistic RIGHT adjusted minimize button for those who are lazy to not go through the menu to minimize FloatLED to tray This was added as an option to the menu Either show or hide it Default is hide as never have the need to minimize FloatLED but users requested it Set WindowOnTop menu choice if FloatLED had previously lost its on top status Adobe Premiere Pro 2 Adobe Audition 2 for instance Disable FloatLED s WindowOnT
24. em and not everything Previously it did scan all drives and this happen every 50ms we should be rest assured that the possible CPU time FloatLED once used to catch network drives should now be even lower we might expect 0 0 CPU Time now Check for lt 1 07 upgrade to v1 08 to detect if FloatLED had max 24 drives A and B drives were added in v1 07 causing it to become 26 letters this would skew v1 06 and below settings by two drives to the right maybe causing drive icons to disappear or act wierd Fixed a minor bug in checking the flag Ignore On Top upon First Time Run To the detection loop if FloatLED window was outside the window area like a resolution change happen it will snap FloatLED window back into viewable desktop This is triggered within the HDD Detect Interval seconds found in INI file Note If the Device Detect Interval seconds feature is turned off a secondary trigger will anyway detect the window out of area every interval as specified in the Device Detect Interval seconds so no need to panic 10 October 2010 Major update Recompiled and changed some code to comply with official and final PureBasic V4 41 release Support for A and B for those who has that configured to Hard Disks instead of the conventional Floppy 3 5 and 5 25 old school style Support for Custom IconSize to max 1024x1024 pixels Detection of Program Directory Sometimes the Documentation could not be rea
25. o Ry Use Drive Icon Size Assigned Drives Ve Wi Ve w i Veo Wi Mo Bx amp Floppy Drive Mo Pe Pe BY C Use Custom Icon Size Me ML Ms Be VF VM Mr Configure Icon Colors Ve Mn Fou Read Activity ul Write Activity 0 IV Auto Hide Disconnected Background 1 ul Text u Show Small Square On Icon Tl Show Icon Separator Lines Turn off Device Detection Interval Save Changes Y Network Drive Single Drive Checkboxes A Z Uncheck check what you want to hide or show Checked means always show unchecked means always hidden Auto Hide Disconnected Checked FloatLED window will ONLY show drives detected by the Operating System and scale the window accordingly Unchecked FloatLED window will show ALL and window wil be in full width like shown and will respect whatever drives you manually would like to show instead Single Drive Checkboxes above Show Small Square On Icon Checked FloatLED window will show icons with tiny square and respects Unchecked Don t show any tiny litte square ever never Notice the tiny little white square in the top right corner It indicates that Windows has successfully found the drive which of course makes also FloatLED be able to detect it s activity Show Icon Separator Line Turns on a small 1 pixel graphical line between each icons for clearer viewing or not See example above Turn off Device Detection Interval If you have a very static drive setup and do not nee
26. on No S6e Sse00v zAnAVsoO Revisions and testing v1 12 Fixed Notice v1 11 Added Removed Fixed Improved Changed Added Fixed Added Notice Did not make it v1 10 Notice Improved 14 November 2011 Time to open the lid that was previously closed A minor mishap caused the Window Snap flag to not be stored properly in memory during operation which would still pop the window into place if placed on top of Taskbar area If you have problems that FloatLED stills falls behind the taskbar area when you Click it make sure you also check the Make window persistant flag as Windows7 seems to have a more aggressive make me on top situation Since was happily and just recently married on 8 Oct 2011 we could finally relax and go back to normal days which let me still do some minor tweaks on the best software LED drive activity around 20 July 2011 Time to close the lid Since FloatLED is not filled with crap we don t need added the portable version of FloatLED exe as well in the ZIP archive Copy it anywhere start it anywhere you want and take notice a FloatLED ini file will be created in the same path where FloatLED exe was executed from Request Administrator Mode for Vista as its a confusing thing If you have problem with it install FloatLED into a directory outside of the Program Files No time to check further into this matter Installing it outside in a dir
27. op menu item added Colors can now be set in own palette requester for Read Write LEDS background and font separator line color Colors saved in INI As Hex Values 3 different sizes of icons now possible Small medium and large Font will scale accordingly Font is always Arial for the drive icons Choosing other fonts can cause unpredicted results and Was not implemented due to lack of bug font time testing issues Arial is such a good all around solid font anyway won t you say Double clicking on a drive icon will open it using the OS function i e explorer exe where is the drive letter Window Transparency function Affects the entire window and icons One can use the mouse wheel within the FloatLED window area to adjust it real time Option also added to menu for those who do not have a mouse wheel around Note This is only applicable For Window 2000 Windows XP Windows Vista Windows 7 and probably Windows x future Hovering over the drive icons will show a tooltip of its drive name free space amp used space etc Decided not to include this as it has to be updated by regular intervals causing banging on the OS function GetDiskFreeSpaceEx_ GetLogicalDriveStrings_ functions etc After all FloatLED is an HD Activity software and NOT any system hardware information system True to my belief of bloating software is a decease of many programs today which FloatLED and its creator takes very seriousl
28. ram their OS s layers of stuff that filters out its own layers based on the previous layers going back to the origin of the layers and back to end and reverse re do re check no wonder why we need QuadCore these days to take care of these small little things that M can t seem to get their head around and do it logically correct instead of working with code from the 70 s and adapting Adding this code however will scan the floppy drive normally A so you will hear a click drive noise once This only happen every time FloatLED start up and not during the regular Detection Interval to detect changes to added or removed drives It is 100 avoidable and only way to support Flash Based disks as this detection flag within Windows also coveres spinning floppy drives WRONG LOGIC M HDD Detect Interval seconds now renamed to Device Detect Interval seconds since its not only HDD Hard Disks FloatLED detects even flash based are detected in V1 08 The old INI entry will be renamed when saving changing or exiting FloatLED so it s consistent with the current naming and future versions Minimal IconSize set to 10 instead of 30 for those who really need that Remember you can use keyboard arrow keys to fine tune when this gadget is active All changes to icons when using the Custom IconSize is also now realtime Expect things to go slow updating rescaling window if you go high Request Administrator Mode for Vista
29. sing 1 day of delay just to find out that day 2 brought some problems with the icon redraw and all the other minimalistic functions and security measures added in the coding aftermath managed to solve an issue during sleep thus when woke up from after 6 hours of coding the problem had solved itself and inserted the code snippet from the back of my brain and problem solved The source code size changed from 26kb to 35kb during the upgrade of v1 01 to v1 02 To take momentary breaks from the coding ended up writing pointless stuff in this trivia instead A lot of stuff not really thought of initially on my todo list was added during v1 02 coding making the planned release date 3 days later than expected It s dangerous to start to code you see Never can stop a rolling stone V1 04 was in my mind for several weeks until decided to brute force myself during a Friday night after a good evening rest to code 95 of everything that had thought of 1 week later d ja vu amp v1 04 documentation was finally available V1 07 was the longest time had sat down with coding since V1 01 so many years back Coding time for V1 07 was about 30 hours including documentation and website design The year went fast by since V1 06 was released in December 2009 mostly due to the fact that my legendary Commodore Music Preservation MP3 project GOAMC had a major update going on for 1 entire year Check it out at www paula8364 com
30. st Window Transparency function was removed It messed up with the ontop features of FloatLED and resulted in strange behavior when dealing with full screen apps have no time to investigate into the matter and basically find the option useless This because one can adjust the colors anyway with the color requester making it appear more mild on the screen for those who thought that the initial default design was too harsh Removed the hibernation sleep standby detection mode This because it seems the OS is sending other power messages during screen saver even encountered that FloatLED minimized automatically while installing Photosynth This means the surveillance function for hibernation sleep standby WILL NOT minimize deactivate FloatLED while the OS is trying to shut down there was one bug report that FloatLED was caught in a 100 dead stuck CPU loop upon OS waking up but never experienced that while testing on 3 different machines So now it is removed If had time to investigate it and filter it better the option would have stayed But better to make the software stable than hanging on to loose ends and half tested functions When a HD was detected by OS FloatLED would update the drive icon with a little square to indicate it being detected by the OS This was interpreted by a user as a foreign letter C with a square above it So in order to avoid confusion the little box was moved from top center of icon to top left
31. ted since Cancel Changes button was removed and the inclusion of real time preview of coloring done instead Behaviour of Show Small Square On Icon so it can be visible both in Auto Hide Mode and in Anti Hide Mode of drive icons Only a small unlogical behaviour from previous versions of FloatLED A possible User Configuration incident if all drives where unchecked and save changes the FloatLED window would disappear completely Now at least 1 icon is forced to show anytime Detect if FloatLED persistant window and window snap was off and that the FloatLED was positioned in the Taskbar area it would be obscured and difficult to reach again Either move the Taskbar or End Process to FloatLED would fix that but now FloatLED automatically jumps out of the area whereever the Taskbar is positioned and sized to prevent it falling behind it 27 December 2009 When checking on the Auto Hide Disconnected all the other separate drive checkmarks are ghosted to indicate a IGNORE feature for the user Meaning they cannot be edited and thus be interpreted as fully functional checkmarks if so Change the window postion for the config windows In previous version it was forced to appear below the FloatLED window 50 pixels Now it just centers on the screen Easier 20 November 2009 Option to remove the tiny little square drive indicator if Auto Hide Disconnected was disabled Added small tooltip info to each drive gadget showing stuff like
32. y Mid 2006 The installer redirected FloatLED s directory into documents and settings saving a ini file in the current user directory Added code to retrieve the actual program directory instead Save INI is done when user clicks on LOCK or UNLOCK window pos Added Added v1 0 Added v0 9 Menu choice for saving position Exit will also save current settings Note Due To the user possibility or OS shutting down FloatLED by End Process will cause a loss of configuration done by user This is now workaround by saving INI every time something is changed via the menu by user Menu choice to enable minimize to tray with tray icon When de minimizing is done the tray icon is removed Early 2006 HD detection for Hard Drives and rescaling of window icons Tested for 3 days no crashes or hang ups detected Released to the public via SoftPedia com Sometime in 2005 Tested for 1 year until 2006 on two computers no crashes or hang ups detected Thanks and acknowledgements Huge thanks to my friend Svein Engelsgjerd for letting me use a customized snippet code from his own DriveGleam dll which he uses in his DriveGleam software a more advanced LED monitoring software with PAR LED features FloatLED was programmed by Stone Oakvalley with the superb PureBasic from Fantaisie Software www purebasic com FloatLED uses code from DriveGleam dll c 2005 Engeltek Svein Engelsgjerd waxhead online no DriveGleam was
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