SpaceMonitor Documentation

Version

This is SpaceMonitor, version 1.3.1
SpaceMonitor is freeware.

Overview

SpaceMonitor is a very helpful application that shows the remaining space on each mounted volume. SpaceMonitor also includes a CD player, and can play audio CDs automatically when you insert them.

Here's a screenshot:

Installation

Installing SpaceMonitor is not difficult. You just have to copy the executable where you want. I suggest the directory: "/boot/home/config/bin".

Features

• The status bars are updated every 0.5s (by default). This delay can be set from 0.1s to 2s.
• You have a CD player instead of a status bar if you insert an audio CD.
• You can tell SpaceMonitor to play the audio CD automatically when you insert it, and launch the real CD player (if you don't like mine).
• The window is automatically updated when a volume is mounted or unmounted.
• The color of the status bar depends of the type of the volume:
  • Green for the ram.
  • Yellow for the bfs.
  • Red for the removable devices.
  • Blue for the other file systems(fat, fat32, ext2...).
  • Grey for the read-only devices.
• The size of the volume is shown when you put the mouse on the corresponding StatusBar.
• When you click on a StatusBar, a pop-up menu appears that allows you to:
  • Unmount the device.
  • Open it with the tracker.
• The window snapps to edges.
• The window remembers its position in all the workspaces.
• All the settings, including the window position are saved in the attributes (no file in "/boot/home/config/settings/").

History

Version 1.3.1

• The icon changed. Thanks to Pedro Pablo Ramirez.
• The window didn't memorize its position properly in the previous version.
• Sometimes, the bubbles were empty when SpaceMonitor was launched from the UserBootscript.

Version 1.3

• SpaceMonitor now has an icon and a home page.
• Volume unmounting is now done by sending a BMessage to the tracker. This is much faster, it will eject the disk if you are unmounting one, and it will tell you if it cannot unmount the volume.
• There was a memory leak when the volumes were unmounted and the bitmap was used as background.
• It is now possible to avoid the cdda and WON.
• SpaceMonitor now includes a CD player.
• SpaceMonitor can play the audio CD automatically when you insert it, and launch the real CD player (if you don't like mine).
• The window keeps its position when the resolution is changed.

Version 1.2

• SpaceMonitor didn't notice any volume mounted or unmounted after you have mounted or unmounted a read-only volume such as a cd-rom drive or a read-only floppy.
• You can tell SpaceMonitor to show or not, the read-only devices and the shared ones.
• A ghost window appeared in the top left corner when you switched to a workspace you had not visited before.
• SpaceMonitor now remembers the position of the window, and its width in all the workspaces when you unselect "Same position in all workspaces".
• No more problem when you have workspaces with different resolutions.
• The ram bar doesn't show and hide ten times if you click ten times quickly on the "Show ram" box.

Version 1.1

• The window was opened at a wrong position when it has to snap at the bottom.
• There is no more flickering when the window is resized.
• The texture doesn't disappear under the size label when it's updated.
• SpaceMonitor didn't save the position of its window on shutdown.

Version 1.01

• SpaceMonitor sometimes crashed when a volume was mounted or unmounted.
• The window was moved when a volume was mounted or unmounted in some cases.

Version 1.0

• First release.