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Last post Author Topic: IDEA: Desktop progress meter  (Read 82299 times)

skwire

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Re: IDEA: Desktop progress meter
« Reply #100 on: September 17, 2014, 07:31 AM »
The meter data is kept in the meters.xml file which should be written in the same folder as Barbecue.exe.  As for the crashing issue, Barbecue isn't an app I use personally so how long does it, typically, take for it to crash?  Also, I don't have Windows 8, only Windows 7.

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Re: IDEA: Desktop progress meter
« Reply #101 on: September 17, 2014, 09:22 AM »
I hope skwire won't mind me mentioning my program which is somewhat similar, Progress Bars of Life: https://www.donation...user/pbol/index.html

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Re: IDEA: Desktop progress meter
« Reply #102 on: September 17, 2014, 09:26 AM »
I hope skwire won't mind me mentioning my program which is somewhat similar, Progress Bars of Life: https://www.donation...user/pbol/index.html

Shameless!   :P  Hahahahaha...the more, the merrier.   :D

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Re: IDEA: Desktop progress meter
« Reply #103 on: September 18, 2014, 12:21 PM »
Re: BBC crashing - Takes a day or two to freeze at about 50% CPU. Can't be closed, has do be shut off with Task Manager. When reopened, all meters are gone, all fields blank. This is v1.1.1 under W8.

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Re: IDEA: Desktop progress meter
« Reply #104 on: September 18, 2014, 02:38 PM »
Please give this interim build a try: http://skwire.dcmembers.com/apps/barbecue/Barbecue_v1.1.7.zip

I didn't make any procedural changes but I did update a lot of structural stuff.  Make a backup of your current Barbecue folder and try this for a couple of days.  Let me know how it goes, please.

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Re: IDEA: Desktop progress meter
« Reply #105 on: September 18, 2014, 02:51 PM »
Ha, thank you. Didn't see this version on the download page a week or two back. Will give it a go.   :)

Thanks to mouser as well...

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Re: IDEA: Desktop progress meter
« Reply #106 on: September 18, 2014, 03:27 PM »
Didn't see this version on the download page a week or two back. Will give it a go.   :)

It wasn't there.  I reworked the code and uploaded the new build right before my last post.