A couple lighting questions

I think Alienware and the speaker lights are way too bright. When in dim mode, the keyboard is too dim.
Is there a way to dim everything but the keyboard?
Also, since windows 7 has the ability to rotate wallpapers, I thought it would be cool to automate matching wallpaper/light combos (like 1-2pm have all yellow, 2-3pm all blue, etc...).
I guess the real question is whether alienfx or the wallpaper programs allow command-line options. If so, then it could be set up through scheduler or something.
JJ

 

You can but you have to tweak the xml in the theme file for each zone which you want a 'custom' brightness level. If you post back and attach a theme I'll tweak it a bit and you can try it out.

As for automating it, nope - feel free to write an app.

 

I hadn't thought of opening the .ath in notepad. That's quite a lot of text for "put a color here".
Hehehe...
I would ask for your help on the code to do the dim settings.
I did find some code on how to swap wallpapers.

Code:

@echo off
call :quiet>nul 2>&1
goto :EOF
:quiet
:: Configure Wallpaper 
REG ADD "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /V Wallpaper /T REG_SZ /F /D "d:\drivers\wallpaperbmp\aw-co2.bmp"
REG ADD "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /V WallpaperStyle /T REG_SZ /F /D 0
REG ADD "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /V TileWallpaper /T REG_SZ /F /D 2
:: Make the changes effective immediately
%SystemRoot%\System32\RUNDLL32.EXE user32.dll, UpdatePerUserSystemParameters

It works just fine, although I think it has to be a bmp.
I looked through the command center files and found the sdk. You should be able to edit the files and then make calls to them, although I'd much rather just do "alienfx.exe theme.ath" or whatever.
I wonder if that java alienfxlite has that ability?
JJ

 

Will take a look at it and post back. Wont get to it until tomorrow or sunday, sorry.

How dim did you want the zones (other than keyboard)? 75, 50, 25%?

 

I'm not sure.
Can you set it for 50% and then I could just find/replace to change?
Whatever the default dim setting is looks pretty good. I guess the wireless light could be 100%.
Seriously...
What is the point of the wireless light? There are no other status lights. I feel like there should be a whole row of lights.
Honestly...
I could just turn that wireless light off and I'd probably never notice it.
JJ

 

lol - yeah.

If you want to give it a go since I'm not sure when I can get to it, I suggest using notepad++. Its a powerful editor, lots of options and the one I use for my coding projects.

Anyway, what you want to change is the first two in the hex string for the zone you want to tweak. the first two set opacity and the last 6 are of course the color.

FF is 100%

<Color1># FF0060F0</Color1>

You can use this as a reference (10% increments)

FF = 100%
E6
CC
B3
99
80
66
80
33
1A
00 = 0%

Give it a shot