[Update - Discontinued] Batti 2.4 - Like VistaHide, only way better.

[No1ustad]

Latest News:
5.2.2009: Project discontinued. (But still a great program)

9/1/2008: Batti 2.4 was released
FIX: Switched tab order in Settings on General page
FIX: redraw optimization (smaller CPU load)

6/18/07: Batti 2.3 was released

Features

Small
Batti takes very few space of your PDA memory. The battery indicator itself takes about 30 KB and the whole application is less than 100 KB.
Highly configurable
Batti is highly configurable to suits your needs. You can set up the update interval of a indicator, its height, all colors are customizable and more.
Hi-DPI aware
Batti is designed in modern manners, it is ready for VGA displayes.
Custom colors
You can set colors for foreground and background, colors for low and critical battery level. You can also set the color for indicating your battery is on AC power source or that your battery is being charged.
Detailed information
Batti can show detailed information about your battery such as temperature, voltage, chemistry and some information about your backup battery as well.
Charging
Batti can indicate that your battery is being charged. If you don't want this indication, you can easily turn it off.
Battery levels
In Batti, you can set up the value of low and critical level of your battery. Those two levels could be indicated with different colors (also configurable).
Localizations
From version 1.3, localizations are supported. You can make your own localization as well.
Sound Events
From version 1.4, you can set custom sound for entering low battery level, critical battery level, a sound for indicating the beginning of charging and a sound for notifying that your battery has been charged.
Always On Top
Batti can run as a topmost indicator, even if full screen applications are running.

authors site: http://code.google.com/p/batti/




ftp://ppcgeeks.com/Vogue/Users/No1US.../Batti-2.4.zip

[e_town]

Pretty neat. I think i made a boo boo though. I set the height to 15 px to see what it would look like. Coincidentally the "all ways on top" option was also checked when settings were saved.

Question: If i can get into the settings and change them, but the app covers the "OK" box in the top right corner, what should I do?

EDIT: Figured it out. I could get to the bottom couple pixels of the start menu. Got to settings -> un-install programs.

PS: No1ustad - Isn't that VistaHide i see running on your screenie?

[rstoyguy]

I like this one better than Vista-Hide simply because of setup.. Customizable colors and sounds. Nice find!

Here is an OEM for it:

OEM_Batti-2_3.............................................Batti Battery Guage v2.3

Edit: It kinda freaks out if you select always on top and activate S2U2. It flashes every couple seconds. But disabled it and it's all good!

[No1ustad]

haha. it 'was' I converted. if you wanna delete vistahide from the start up menu I just renamed the startup folder something else, reset. deleted the file, rename the startup folder back, and then soft rreset again.

[BOO B)]

Deleting vistahide is easier to cut and paste it to storage card soft reset and it will not start up on the restart. You can then delete it from the storage card.

[bedoig]

I like the idea of custom colors. VistaHide's color scheme is out of place on the Diamond-type themes I'm usually running these days. Cool.

Edit: This is freeware right?

[No1ustad]

yup. freeware

[EtherealRemnant]

Hmm... I might have to check this out. I miss my battery gauge.

[lvgdgts]

Thanks for this find, No1ustad. Exactly what I have been looking for.

[shaggylive]

thanks, I never had time to play with this. Nice write up
thanks for the warning rstoyguy.