Installation guide

3. Windows System monitor
The system monitor is a tray bar software which shows the current state on the tray
bar icon and a semi transparent "always on top" capable small window.
The popup window can be moved anywhere on the screen and can be customised
– our current setup has two skins but any combination is possible playing with the
"skin*.mbs" files installed together with this application. The current skin can be selected
right clicking on the try icon.
The "skin*.mbs" files are simple text ones editable with any text editor (notepad for
example). Adding a new skin is pretty simple – make a skin2.mbs (use the existing
skin0.mbs or skin1.mbs for starting content) and start playing with the values from the new
file.
The values are self explanatory – skin name, background image files, font
descriptions and label/value pair coordinates for all the important OpenUPS values.
The size of the popup is defined by the background image – transparent parts can
be defined as well (see for example: "bubble1.bmp").
4. Windows Monitor API + Visual Studio project
Mini-box.com provides one OpenUPS API in a DLL and a small "Microsoft C++
Visual Studio" project for using this API. Basic C++ knowledge is needed to use this API.
This API is installed together with the rest of the OpenUPS software.
If You want to compile the small console aplication You will need "Visual Studio C++
2005" or higher installed on your computer. IMPORTANT: the API supports only one
OpenUPS connected to the computer.
Usage: open OpenUPSLibTest.sln from the package, run it and see
OpenUPSLibTest.cpp for usage details.