...about the battery icon in my system tray...
Its that time again, i am here to try and find help solving something that has been bugging me for ages. In early versions of ObjectDock (if im correct) you couldnt replace system tray icons with nice PNGs like you can now. I used to think, "Wouldnt that be great if you could get rid of them pixellated system tray icons and replace them with nice clear ones...". Then as time passed, this became a feature of OD and i was very happy... ... ...for a while.
Y'see, i am a laptop user, and as all laptop users know, theres a battery icon in the system tray which changes state depending on how much power is left in the battery etc... As a result of the newly added support for replacing system tray icons, i could replace this state changing with a nice PNG image of a battery, and that was fine for a while, BUT, it was a static image and there was no way of making it change state like the original stock image and have a beautifully crafted icon that performed like this one https://www.wincustomize.com/ViewSkin.aspx?SID=1&SkinID=2381&LibID=29 by rylos.
So i waited like before to see if the next release of OD would allow you to not only replace a static system tray image with a nice PNG, but also allow you to replace a state changing system tray icon with a docklet, like the link above which would also change state and hence change images when necessary. Sadly this day hasnt arrived yet, and it seems to this day to be something that hasnt been done yet. I have posted a similar article on a few occasions before, but it has never turned out to be fruitful until someone replied and suggested that if you could access the DLL (or whatever file it is, im not that clued in) that controls the icon in the system tray and edit it, you technically should be able to customize the icons also. In my mind im thinking that logically this makes sense, because purely due to the fact that i can see the icon changing before my eyes tells me its programmed in somewhere or controlled by some piece of script somewhere, and that the icons are on my pc somewhere, which suggests that they can be accessed, and hence edited and hence this might be possible. Finally i get to my technical question (or three) - Does anyone know what kind of file controls the stock battery icon? Where is the bugger? Is this possible in your opinion?
I have to say that if this were possible it would more than certainly make my ObjectDock experience complete, and probably quite a few others also... So please drop me a line and share your thoughts on this whole thing, id love to see it happening...
Regards and best wishes to ye all!
By the way i have a program called Resource Tuner, it seems to be able to access and edit dlls and exes etc... ANyone familiar?
Ronan H
