Just a quick Q - Do I take it that the drive mod treats partitions as disks? That really would be a horrendous waste of resources..

Generally speaking, from all I've read and seen about it, I don't think the disk mod will be for me to be honest. Just don't need that amount of info. And sometimes having 4 - 6 disks on the go, geez, no, definitely not on for me I'm afraid. But, we'll see - I'll certainly give it a try before passing final judgement.

It's feasible to only have the initial display we all saw early on.
When you select 'display as icon' - you only get amount used and left as everyone saw initially - so that choice is actually very economical It is also possible to have no icon at all as well that you can turn off in the config file.

You can almost turn everything on or off except change the color of the drive letters or display the volume names. I do not know the answer to your partition question, but I think if they were partitions, Jorge would have included a volume name as a display addition. Actually I checked Disk2H is volume name so it is there. It doesn't have settings though so it is disabled by default. You can display drive model# and file system as well. But not all together there are no settings as yet.

@Jorge - I probably wasn't supposed to find those, but testing is testing.
Minor bug. One of my drives volume name is LAZARUS. If I turn Disk02H on and hide the icon, it displays it as DAZARUS for some strange reason. The rest of the drives it is fine with.

@BassdudeNZ - Thanks, yeah, I'm aware of the options, but... it all seems a lot of hassle. But, we'll see, once the final release is out and I feel well enough to spend more time at computer. Still recovering from flu.

Hope you're feeling better soon. It hits harder in our age brackets.
Apologies for preaching to the converted

I also thought od something user only that could be an option. It is trivial really, but does give the user another option.

In the Styles a "Cycle on" and "cycle off" - That is where it would cycle the the disk and the ring after a period of time. If they select disk or Ring, it would automatically turn the cycle off.
Trivial as I said and definitely not important. Just an idea, nothing more

@JORGE

One thing I think you should definitely consider, is that in "MAIN" in the workshelf, perhaps putting a Single Disk icon there that opens the desktop double-click wouldn't hurt. Sure I can add it, but it seemed natural that it should be there. I have no idea how you could do it, perhaps that is why it isn't there when someone has a lot of drives?

Yes, it displays logical drives, not physical drives, it would make no sense any other way - and why would it be a horrendous waste of resources? Users can pick and choose what to display, and drives not being actively shown are left alone.

Thanks @BassdudeNZ. Getting ther bit by bit. Yes, it certainly can hit harder in one's later years. Still, last time I had a serious one around 40 years ago it was just as bad, or nearly so.

No need for apologies, surely.

Thanks for clarifying Jorge. Thought it did. Horrendous waste of resources in the sense that if someone had a whole heap of partitions on a disk and had them all added. Don't see the need for that or the sense in it. A number of people I know who still run Windows in addition to Linux on laptops tend to have just one physical disk with two Windows partitions (and often some Linux ones as well), one for Windows and apps and a small one for data. Which applies here as well. Now there's no way I'd need nor want a disk mod for the data partition, Windows and apps would be more than sufficient. Of course, best of all would be a simple module giving an aggregate of all drives, both current read/write and total for current session.

Maybe that could be an addition in the next beta as a user option?- it certainly is a good suggestion It also definitely allows for a compact module.

@Jorge

Well I tried a pile of different meters. Not knowing the naming conventions that will work properly, and trying a lot of logical names like WsDiskGaugeUsed.png, WsDiskGaugeRead and WsDiskGaugeWrite and none worked or used the graphic gauge arm ... and having no measurement alignment properties in the config file short of using the ones in other modules, I gave up. It's definitely not gauge friendly.

You were absolutely 100% correct - the gauge does some crazy peak holds that never refresh as you can see - even when set to false... So epic fail on my part At least I tried, better than not trying at all Having no settings to align and size them properly discounts any usage so perhaps that's a good thing.


Shame really for this particular theme but I'll work out something appropriate.

See? You just proved you don't pay attention to what I write lol. Written elsewhere:



Anyway, moving on...



Please send that theme "as is" in the screenshot (i.e. with the gauges) to the Winstep support address so I can have a look at it, just in case it is actually a bug.

Actually I did and I only put up a few alternatives I tried because I suppose I was not good enough to get those working, as well as the other ones you put up that are below that also did not work for me:

"Anyway, with a 3rd graph block the possible filenames for the % of used space bitmaps would be

WsDiskMultiUsed.png (multi-state bitmap)
WsDiskbUsed.png (bar graph)
WsDiskhUsed.png (histogram, but you really do not want to use an histogram for % used)
WsDiskGaugeUsed.png (needle of the gauge)
WsDiskGaugeShadowUsed.png (shadow of the needle of the gauge)


So I will stick to what I am having success with. I can live with not being good enough or successful with a hobby. I had plenty of success with what was my real profession. If I get frustrated as I have been I lose interest. Picco14 has a much better grasp on it. I learn more when I see something working. I was one of those small kids who took their toy mechanical car apart to see how it worked then put it back together.

Thank you for thinking so too, @BassdudeNZ. It's what I initially suggested to Jorge, and of course it's what we have with Linux, albeit as part of System Monitor (rough analogue to Windows Taskmanager but better ).

It really would be perfect for me. I'll try and dig up a screenshot or two to illustrate.

Veering very off-topic here - actually, I'm dead curious. What "genres" did/do you work in? Were you classically trained? What did/do you play most, upright/double bass or electric? Have you ever played stick bass?

Well, didn't have any such toys to take apart when I was a kid - there weren't many around. However, by age 5 1/2 I was given a relative's packed up folding 8-on-120 camera, fixed focus lens, 2 or 3 apertures, 2 shutter speeds IIRC, and took that apart, discovered the problem, fixed it, and thus had my very first functional camera. (Hence probably my love of the 6x9 format and black&white.) Made my own contact prints, with daylight contact paper! At 8 progressed to a 5x4 in. technical field camera (mahogany and brass), in need of TLC and hence just about affordable for my parents. Fixed it, learned all about movements etc., and eventually made a reducing back to take 120 roll film backs also. A tripod came with it, fortunately. Now I could explore landscape photography and all manner of other things. Still had and sometimes used that camera in the '90s!

Thanks for that background. That was very enjoyable.
I also found quite young that if i could not quite get the hang of something after spending a while on it, if I walked away and did something else, often when I returned the answers would present themselves because I was fresh. Of course, some things I just completely never revisited