I've been trying manually positioning an incomplete bar - only the clock and tray - via x,y in the .rc and its handling the number very strangely O.o

I can put it in the upper-right corner, by using width-1 as 'x'.

If I use width-2, its rewritten as -2, and position as you'd expect from that.

If I use x=200, it works corretly. 400 also works. If I use width=600, its rewritten as -239 and the bar positioned accordingly. 575=>-264, and other strange correlations of that sort.

x: 560 works, x: 561 does not. This on a 1680 width screen, but who knows what other factors are coming into play here

Its really quite bizarre, although interesting to experiment with in a sort of twilight zone way, so um, plz2fix?

For manual positioning of a small bar you may need to override the bar alignment autodetection.
Try changing the options

to the corner that you want to set the coordinate of. Valid options are top,center,bottom,auto for vertical, and left,center,right,auto for horizontal.
The default value is auto, and that tries to guess based on position of the entire bar, but this may be unreliable in some cases

boxBar 0.1.6 is released

This fixes a crashing bug when clicking on tasks that were no longer valid, a consequence of this is that Task reordering has been removed as this was the cause of the problem.
The text changing style on tasks should also be fixed

Some new features as well

• Added a "button" item. The default config has all its options
• Added drag-over support to focus a task. So now dragging a file over a task will bring that task up so you can drop the file in its window
• Maximum width of tasks now configurable. See the default config file or use the right-click config menu to change it (0 disables)

Looks stable. Thx for drag-over!

New bugfix release.

Fixes a bug in sizing things which left a gap when used vertically.
Some fixes for tooltips. Some where never being displayed (uTorrent) and some things would cause tooltips to flash

Links in first post

any chance we can get the tasks to flash when they want your attention (e.g. new IM message) ?

Also with the vista power icon, you have to click it twice, otherwise the box dissappears when you try and change power profiles

I've tried to add this in the 0.2 RC below

I've added additional handling for mouse clicks based on a post qwilk made a while ago on shell-coding regarding how vista handles them. Hopefully this fixes the problem with the power icon

The 0.2 RC also includes:

• Icon on the button (blackbox icon only)
• Ability to choose what to display for tasks (text, icon, both)
• Fetches icons itself, so large icons should now work nicely on all branches
• Fetches window caption itself, and displays in unicode (except the Ansi build). This should fix any ?'s that appeared in place of characters when displaying f.ex Japanese when you are set to English
• Some of the names of advanced settings have changed, but this should not affect that many people, I am working on updated docs and they will be available by the actual release
• Might be some other stuff that I have forgotten about ...

This works fine for me, please let me know if you encounter any problems.

Release for boxBar 0.2.0 RC1:
32-bit Unicode
64-bit Unicode
32-bit Ansi

So far all the usual suspects seem to be playing along, I'll let you know if anything comes up.

... did you change something with the colouring of the clock? The text colour changed here, its barely readable now.

Not that I am aware of, and mine is still fine. If you could PM or post your style file I can check with that, there may be some case that is not getting handled correctly

Second release candidate. Fixes toggle plugins not working. Also adds support for named items (currently only for the button).

Documentation (work in progress) : Documentation

Release for boxBar 0.2.0 RC2:
Links removed, get RC3 instead

Re: RC2 :: The application cannot be blah di blah because blackbox64.exe could not be found. Whut.

Re: Clock Text :: Yup, with 1.7 the text is white, with RC1 its dark grey. Style archive is attached.

Was busy testing something else at the time, sorry. RC3 will load again, and I'm done with testing the different exe name. That wasn't supposed to go in a released plugin.


Ok, found the problem. Fixed in RC3.
I had changed the way labels were implemented, and this resulted in the clock changing its background style properly but not setting its font style and color.

Documentation (work in progress) : Documentation

Release for boxBar 0.2.0 RC3:
32-bit Unicode
64-bit Unicode
32-bit Ansi

On RC3 now - I can see the time again! \o/

Bug :: Found one, its those damn Vista tray icons again - I can't use the post-click pop-up window for battery/power status, it disappears as soon as I move the mouse off the tray icon.

The funny thing is - it works in 7 RC. It appears in the wrong place, but I can move the mouse over and click on it. Perhaps because I'm using a partial tray & clock bar in Vista.

Also about Windows 7 RC, icons which are hidden from the tray in explorer now show up, so good job on that However, the mouseovers are wrong or absent for network/power/sound system icons. Power/Sound have simple text popups, while Network and Action Centre have none. There's more stuff to do with that, but I think that's enough for now

edit: its also a bit crashy - it killed boxcore on 7 while I was click-testing the tray, and plugging in my gamepad into Vista brought it crashing down too.

I have been using this with bbmien based on bblean 1.17 and so far it is working fairly good. I do have one request though.

I have a fair number of apps (like Im) that will blink when active one does not though (Spark part of openfire) . It would great if when I get new im's this would blink properly.

And last in the task try the icons do not continue to blink. Would it be to much to ask if they continue to blink until I access them. Otherwise I get im's and the windows never show up they simply go to the tasks and if they do not continue to blink untill I ope nthe window then I usually don't notice them until many hours later when it is to late. Currently it will blink but only until I change focus to another window and if I don't notice the task tray blinking I simply loose track of the fact that new im came in.

Thank you.