Dancing LEDs - Page 4

I just finished a first version of the system monitor using the LEDs. It is far from perfect but has the basic functionalities.
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It monitors CPU / memory usage, hdd access and network usage. You can bind these events to the color (with various possible schemes: green to red, green to blue, ...) or the intensity.

I noticed some issues with keyboard input while playing (I am trying to solve this), but it does not happen very often.

Also, you can switch the monitor on/off at any time by pressing CTRL + F12.

It does not save the settings for now, but this is the next feature in my TODO list

update: For now the monitor will not go in the task bar, just minimize it while running. It will also minimize itself if you select another window.

Enjoy!

I would not mind - They would do all the work

Do not hesitate to describe the bugs - it's always difficult to test when you only have one computer than can actually run the program

Thanks to all of you for the testing

For those who would like to help, here some items from my TODO list:
- a cool icon !
- some small pictures of speaker / vents and back leds to put near the corresponding lines in the interface
- a documentation
- some way to read the GPU temperature (probably something to do with NVidia drivers)
- some way to read remaining battery power (Not sure how usefull this is: You probably do not want the leds when on battery ).
- some way to check whether an email is received on an email account. I can't figure an easy way to do this last one.
- suggestions for more features

SirBA: It really lacks a documentation - sorry. Let me try to write a quick user guide:

You can see four lines in the interface. Each line corresponds to a LED functionality. First line: speaker leds, second line: vent leds, third line: back panel leds, fourth line: intensity (the intensity is set for all the leds at once - it is an hardware limitation).

Now, the first row selects what you want to monitor. For example, select Network in the top left combo box to monitor the Network with the speakers leds. With the second row, you can change the display settings (color going from green to red, green to blue, etc ...).

Now let's have a look at these settings:



Here, the speaker's LEDs monitor the Network, going from green to blue. The vent's LEDs monitor the CPU, going from Green to red. The back panel LED's do not monitor anything, they are set to Red. The intensity do not monitor anything, it is set to 4.

Here are some other settings I like to use:



In this case, the front speaker LEDs are constant red, all the other are turned off. However, the intensity monitors the CPU. So the front LEDs intensity will change with CPU usage, from dark red to bright red.