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Onscreen Volume Display
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Is there a tool or commodity that Displays the volume Control (Mute or percent of Volume) on the active screen like this:

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?

That would be a very needed feature, because you are not forced to go to the Workbench screen and open mixer to show how the volume settings are.

Btw. grab the Backdrop-Image here for your Workbench:
http://www.desktopwallpapers.co.za/up ... er-1080p-9--1600x1200.jpg

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Something like pressing F11 and getting up the volume text could maybe be nice. I've never used the volume. I have the same volume, no need to change it.

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The Mixer has a volume popup feature, exactly what you are asking for.

I have configured my volume multimedia keys on the keyboard to send arexx commands to the Mixer, and configured the Mixer to open the volume window for a brief moment.

Use these settings in the Mixer icon:
POPWINDOW
(enabled the volume display)

POPWINDOWLEFTEDGE=1250
POPWINDOWTOPEDGE=640
(position. The default (not using these two) work fine also.)

POPWINDOWDELAY=65
(this means that the volume window will be displayed for 0.65 seconds.)

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That's easy, just get a monitor with built-in speakers and when you'll adjust the volume on the monitor it should use OSD to show you the level


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The solutions mentioned here are really solutions around the problem.

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Quote:

Deniil wrote:
The Mixer has a volume popup feature, exactly what you are asking for.

I have configured my volume multimedia keys on the keyboard to send arexx commands to the Mixer, and configured the Mixer to open the volume window for a brief moment.

Use these settings in the Mixer icon:
POPWINDOW
(enabled the volume display)

POPWINDOWLEFTEDGE=1250
POPWINDOWTOPEDGE=640
(position. The default (not using these two) work fine also.)

POPWINDOWDELAY=65
(this means that the volume window will be displayed for 0.65 seconds.)



How cool is that?! ) I'm using the MM-keys too, but wasn't aware of the popwindow!
Thanx for sharing!!

(sometimes it really helps reading the changelogs which come with the updates )

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(sometimes it really helps reading the changelogs which come with the updates )


Or the readme...
(I'm quite sure I put it in there somewhere, along with the arexx commands that you will need.)

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@fingus

The solution I gave is not a solution around the problem. It is the proper and only solution.

What else would you have expected? I mean making the Mixer popup green and ugly and cover half the screen doesn't make it work better.

What you might possibly expect is to have the mixer read the MM-volume keys automatically by default, and of course to have the pop window showing by default, but still...

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i was asking for a maybe new seperate tool, not mixer.

When you using your SAM in terms of a Media-Center it would be helpfull to have such "ugly green" good readable onscreen display instead of this small mixer window on high resolutions.

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@fingus

Send me the code for some osd(test,level,color) function which displays a transparent window with a string and some blocks like in your screenshot and I'll add it to mixer

I'm too labuzy right now to figure out how to do it

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Send me the code for some osd(test,level,color) function which displays a transparent window with a string and some blocks like in your screenshot and I'll add it to mixer


I´m just a graphic artist and webmaster. But i can code a little bit SDL-Basic

I ask "Whose", maybe he will code something native tool.


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I'm too labuzy right now to figure out how to do it


No problem, me too

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That would be a nice feature to add, it exists in macos and ubuntu or kubuntu but instead of ugly green it's white which is better IMO.

Maybe white as default with the possibility to change it using RGB values?

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@fingus

You won't get away from the Mixer whatever you do, but sure someone could make an alternative popwindow that is much larger for use in a media center environment, and add a suitable tooltype for it.

I made the popwindow as it is now and I simply copied the available graphics for one channel as it were. But nothing prevents anyone from adding an alternative large display too.

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@Deniil

I just gave this a go now having read this thread.
Used AllKeys and configured my keyboard for Mixer and AmigaAmp.
Worked very well, many thanks.

I suppose it comes down to personal taste.
I much preferred the mixer popup to that ugly green volume thing.

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@TiredOfLife

I agree, it works well enough for me. However, regarding the ugly green OSD it doesn't have to look that way.

This is what it looks like in KDE:

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Don´t worry about the look and design, its surely the smalles problem! Maybe we made it skinable.

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@fingus

Meant to say, nice background by the way.

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