Visual indicator of volume change

[RamonUnch]

As suggested by @cojoMan here, I modified the Volume wheel action to simply send the volume up/down keys, so it should show the volume indicator like whn using the multimedia keys.
Here are some test builds of AltSnap.

AltSnap1.50test1bin.zip
AltSnap1.50test1bin_x64.zip
AltSnap1.50test1-installers.zip

[cojoMan]

Oh wooow, I didn't know about this fork, so many new options. Checking it out !

[cojoMan]

works wonder, thank you, already switched, and checking out the other options !

[RamonUnch]

You might be interested in looking at the wiki for more details: https://github.com/RamonUnch/AltSnap/wiki

[Ichisich]

@RamonUnch
Great addition.
But wheel input still doesn't get recognized on the desktop as long as the mouse cursor isn't in a window or the taskbar.
This is not a regression, and was, to my knowledge, always the case with altdrag/snap.

I guess you're using the SystemMediaTransportControls API to show the overlay?
If so, you could also add the instructions:
Volume_Mute
Media_Play_Pause
Media_Prev
Media_Next

[RamonUnch]

But wheel input still doesn't get recognized on the desktop as long as the mouse cursor isn't in a window or the taskbar.
This is not a regression, and was, to my knowledge, always the case with altdrag/snap.

The desktop is in the scroll blacklist. Just clear this blacklist if it if you want to be able to adjust volume everywhere.
I do not want to have a separated blacklist for every action...

I actually just send the multimedia vkeys to the system and Windows shows himself the appropriate volume control. Multimedia keys are:

vKey	HEX	Description
VK_VOLUME_MUTE	0xAD	Volume Mute key
VK_VOLUME_DOWN	0xAE	Volume Down key
VK_VOLUME_UP	0xAF	Volume Up key
VK_MEDIA_NEXT_TRACK	0xB0	Next Track key
VK_MEDIA_PREV_TRACK	0xB1	Previous Track key
VK_MEDIA_STOP	0xB2	Stop Media key
VK_MEDIA_PLAY_PAUSE	0xB3	Play/Pause Media key

How do you think the other keys could be used?
New actions for each key?

[Ichisich]

The desktop is in the scroll blacklist.

Sorry, I just looked at the process blacklist.

I actually just send the multimedia vkeys to the system and Windows shows himself the appropriate volume control.

Neat, so it works with Windows prior to 8/10 as well.

How do you think the other keys could be used? New actions for each key?

For Mute and Pause/Play, yes.
Next/Prev could be mapped to the wheel, same as Volume, and Stop is somewhat superfluous with Pause/Play existing.

[RamonUnch]

For Mute and Pause/Play, yes.
Next/Prev could be mapped to the wheel, same as Volume, and Stop is somewhat superfluous with Pause/Play existing.

After some testing, it seems that those keys have to be sent to the playing application. So to use them you would need to focus the media player, this would make those Play/Pause/Stop and Next/Prev actions a bit "useless" to me. When thinking about it it is obvious, for a program to handle those key without focus, they would need a low level keyboard hook.

Mute is handled by the system (like the volume) so it works as intended. I will add this one for sure.

[cojoMan]

The desktop is in the scroll blacklist. Just clear this blacklist if it if you want to be able to adjust volume everywhere. I do not

For the uninitiated, what is the process I have to remove from the blacklist to have the volume act on desktop hovering as well ?
Currently the windows blacklist looks like this :

Program Manager|Progman,|MultitaskingViewFrame,Volume Control|Tray Volume,Volume Control|Windows.UI.Core.CoreWindow,|TaskSwitcherWnd,|TaskSwitcherOverlayWnd,|WorkerW,|Shell_TrayWnd,|BaseBar,|#32768,|XamlExplorerHostIslandWindow,*|TSSHELLWND

[Ichisich]

https://github.com/RamonUnch/AltSnap/wiki#blacklists

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