CPU Monitor v1.3b2 Copyright © 1996 Jon Grieve This beta release introduces a few bug fixes and enhancements: v1.3b2 ====== - Some more subtle changes to stop the problem where CPUMon simply stops updating the icon. If the icon 'stalls', simply move the mouse over them icon and this should kick-start the icon again. - Some changes to the way the Details window is re-painted. This still doesn't get round the problem where covering the right side of the window stops the graph being drawn (see below), but improves general painting of the graph as windows move over it. v1.3b1 ====== - Performance data should be started and stopped correctly, so no more (or, maybe, fewer) clashes with other applications reading or writing performance data (i.e. Dial-Up Networking) should occur. - Settings now has an option to include the usage in the tooltip of the system tray icon. This was put in at user request, but isn't perticularly helpfull, as the tooltip is only displayed when the mouse has been left over the icon, and the text isn't updated when visible. Therefore, the default for this setting is off. - Added the Details window. This is where most of the work has been done since the last release ... and where most of the remaining work needs to be done before a full release. Current good and bad points are: - No code is in place to redraw the graph when it has been covered up by another window (i.e. it needs painting). - To reduce flicker, the method to add new data is to get Windows to 'scroll' the window to the left and simply draw what's required for the new points -- i.e. the thin strip at the right end. This works well most of the time, however, if the right hand end is hidden by another window, the whole scroll process goes very wrong, and no new details are drawn. - Stay on top works well. Naturally, this gets round both the previous problems. - Stay on top setting is not saved and restored; the Details window always starts with this setting off. - Double click the graph to make it full screen. If possible, I'll try and make the window sizable when in this mode at some point. - The Detail window settings are mostly hard-coded at this point. The Settings window has the stuff for changing the settings, but none of it does anything yet, and so it's all disabled. Colour settings are obvious. The Rounding settings force the values to be rounded to a certain amount. The default is 5. Please report any good or bad points to me. Thanks. Jon Grieve jgrieve@southdown.co.uk