Read in Volume

[morinted]

Feature

Read in volume

Reason

The default Windows taskbar shows battery, volume (approximated and whether or not it's muted), and time. The bug.n bar replaces most of these and adds disk, CPU, memory, and network readings.

I think that volume is a natural extension of this.

Thoughts

Use SoundGet

Could display a bar similar to the battery bar with "VOL: 00%" and maybe when muted "VOL:MUTE". That, or display a different color when the volume is muted, as technically you still have a volume level. So it could be "VOL: 50%" in a color, then when muted it could keep that text but display a different color. This runs the risk of mal-configuration leading to a bad user experience, though.

Then the config line could be something like Config_readinVol=1

[joten]

Once upon a time ... exactly that, which you describe, existed in bug.n. I removed it because it had a dependency to other libraries (COM and VA) for making it work with Windows >= Vista.

-- But since AutoHotkey v1.1.10 the necessary functionality seems to be included in SoundGet :-)

The only problem is, that it would need an extra field in the bar, which leads to a lot of code rearrangment. The alternative would be to integrate it into the multi-purpose text field, but then without a progress bar and with no status indication using different colors.

Any comments?

[joten]

For example like this: "VOL: m 50%" with 804e28c

[morinted]

That certainly seems to work. I don't mind the lack of progress bar. I can see why it would be a lot of work to add it. Thanks for the quick work. Quite amazing.

[joten]

Well then, I will leave it at this. I will keep the additional field in mind for the next major release; I wanted to revise some of the code related to the bar (i. e. the color configuration) anyway.