nvme wrote:You get the errors if winlanapi is not available, which can happen if you are running something older than Win XP SP3 , or have the windows wifi service disabled ( using a third party wireless manager ). I agree that the popups can be very annoying, so i'll change the error reporting system to just return a string within the measure itself ( aka you will see "error: winlanapi not available" instead of your SSID string)
What about this work ?
Is there any chance it will be done ?
This plugin rocks, and I'm working on Windows XP SP2 (with KB918997 + MsXML6).
I already use wifi_config.exe to setup and activate favorites wlan connexction (with a script to switch between lan and wlan connection, activating one when disabling the other one : you can't be connecting twice on the same network).
Getting married my work with this plugin would be very efficient for me, and would give me a dashboard for manage lan & wlan connections on a laptop.
Thanks for the good work already done, hope I won't see the popups in the future.
This individual hit an issue, you and I had discussed in the past.
He has way too many available spots in his local area and the list over flows the skin design area.
a few proposals
1.) How much trouble would it be to institute value upon a confirmed connection?
You have the availability to measure quality as percentage.
Been pretty busy so I havent had a chance to make any updates on this yet. I should be able to fix the popups issue easily, and im also going to be looking at the APs overflow issue. Look for a new build here sometime next week.
@Chaos:
1) I think the API returns a Signal Strength of 0 if you are disconnected, so you can just use a substitution to replace a 0 with "disconnected" and anything else with "connected".
2) From the API :
Signal Qualty: A percentage value that represents the signal quality of the network. WLAN_SIGNAL_QUALITY is of type ULONG. This member contains a value between 0 and 100. A value of 0 implies an actual RSSI signal strength of -100 dbm. A value of 100 implies an actual RSSI signal strength of -50 dbm. You can calculate the RSSI signal strength value for wlanSignalQuality values between 1 and 99 using linear interpolation.
So you can just use a CALC meter to interpolate back to dbm.
Well I have the AP list overflow issue sorted out, but there's a memory leak somewhere that I couldn't find. Ill try and fix that tomorrow and post a new build.
EDIT: nevermind, just found the leak and fixed it. All that remains to be done now is printing errors to the log file instead of giving popups, which i am not sure how to do. Does anyone know if it is possible for plugins to print to the rainmeter log files, or is that reserved for the main program?
Ill post a new build tomorrow with all the fixes.
