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Hello,

can I please request to implement the following feature into one of the next versions of xwidget?

There is a little program called (444 KB) ▶ . It shows a little rectangular box for each storage device (SSD, HDD, USB Key, etc) attached to the PC. Everytime the device is reading, the color changes to (for example) green and when it's writing, it becomes red. It would be awesome, if future xwidgets could have this feature.

By the way, there is also a Windows Standard Gadget existing, that shows Disk Activity ▶ .

Thank you!

I used to do this using the so-called "Performance Monitor" under Samurize, and still am trying to figure it out how I can do this with XWidgets. Performance Monitor meters are very powerful and give you not only this information, but a lot more too. To monitor disk activity, you could use "\PhysicalDisk(_Total)\% Disk Time", or "\PhysicalDisk(1 C:)\% Disk Time" for only first HDD, or "\Paging File(*)\% Usage" for total swap file usage, etc.

If I may suggest a new feature to the developers, then it would be definitely the general-purpose "PerfMon counters".

Hello cyxw,

I just downloaded your sample widget:



This is like thin hair and I fail to see any changes.
Could you possibly make it more visible please?

Thanks

Well I wasn't trying to supply a fully usable widget and I'm definitely not a good graphics designer So it was more like a template for your experimentation, but maybe later I can publish a widget like you want. Nevertheless, try replacing the '1 C: D:' with the '_Total' in the source code. Then start simply a file search, zipping whole C: drive or something to produce some disk load, then it should show some activity.

This is what I see in my config (work in progress, with many layers). Note the red chart in background is the disk activity; dark blue in foreground is CPU and upper vertical bar is the free memory with some tiny little fonts for net traffic and IP.

Ah, now I see.