Migrates left along tasbar, leaving gap to the right

[Chris]

I'm certainly concerned about the issue. I've read through the APIs for IDeskBand interface that I'm using to attach to the taskbar, and so far I have not been able to find any way to change the location or size of the toolbar itself, at least through that interface. At this point, I can't see anyway to control BatteryBar's position or location on the taskbar. I'm not sure what the Lenovo application is doing differently than mine.

In short, I'd love to fix it, I just haven't been able to find a solution yet. If anyone else out there has any insight, I'm all ears.

[noetus]

Although this would be a complete hack, what about an automated way of switching the Batterybar off and on again? That always repositions it correctly (as noted earlier in the thread). Autohotkey could provide one way of implementing this. What about other/better ways?

[b3wolf]

I've noticed the same behaviour in Windows 7 x64...

[Chris]

There is a DLL that's installed with BatteryBar that can use used to turn off/on the toolbar. If you want to do something to automate that, even a simple batch file you can do this:

Code:

rundll32 "C:\Program Files\BatteryBar\BarExplorerHook.dll",HideExplorerBar
rundll32 "C:\Program Files\BatteryBar\BarExplorerHook.dll",ShowExplorerBar

[Doctor Colossus]

I have the same problem, which I can confirm is related to the Language Bar. Besides a majority of English native-speakers, I think pretty much everyone else uses the Language Bar, so this is a really serious problem.

The Language Bar's context menu includes an option to "Auto-Adjust". If you don't keep this checked, then I think its position gets funky after a little while. I suspect this "auto-adjust" is related to the displacement of BatteryBar.

I think noetus is on the right track -- BatteryBar just needs to be refreshed occasionally, and ideally only when necessary. Hopefully Chris can do some investigating about the specific cause, and implement a conditional refresh.

For my own part, I've resolved the issue with an undesirable temporary hack -- a scheduled task which runs at logon and thereupon once every five minutes:
"C:\Program Files\hstart.exe" ""C:\Program Files\BatteryBar\ShowBatteryBar.exe" hide" ""C:\Program Files\BatteryBar\ShowBatteryBar.exe" show"

hstart is a small (40kb) utility to launch a command in Windows silently without a console.
Info: http://www.ntwind.com/software/utilities/hstart.html
Direct download: http://www.ntwind.com/download/hstart.zip

Maybe this solution will ease the annoyance of some in the meantime. Anyway, please work on fixing this. [-;