Suggestions about trayvolumecontrol HOT 3 OPEN

I'm a fan of hardcoding and recompiling to my needs, but I'll think about the possibility of customization.

Something like TrayBrightnessControl could be created, but in the case of volume, obviously we can use the system icon, but in this case we will need to add a new icon to the tray and manage its state.

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Thanks for taking time to respond @krlvm! I believe you may find the suggestions useful over time when you try them. The most common customization values can be hardcoded indeed (i.e. 2/5/10 step and Alt/Ctrl modifier key).

As it goes to additional icon for TrayBrightnessControl — I see no problem with that as long as it works in manner similar to TrayVolumeControl (ideally both via mouse wheel on hover and a modifier key). Icon itself is not a problem because multiple options are in Segoe MDL2 Assets font (to match other system tray icons, here's a couple of them). I'll be happy to prepare ICO file of the correct size so it looks perfect (by using C:\Windows\system32\SndVolSSO.dll, C:\Windows\System32\pnidui.dll, etc. for reference). I already control brightness via BAT file system keyboard shortcut. I can explain how to do it step-by-step but basically I used this post to learn how to do it without any additional software. And in case it helps here's a working way to change increment of brightness change using keyboard's function keys by editing Windows Registry key (no restart required).

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@krlvm, I actually found an alternative to TrayBrightnessControl — BrightnessControl. However it has quite some downsides:

• no brightness change increment value setting;
• weird 11% hardcoded increment;
• no modifier key support for fullscreen programs;
• wrong brightness value reported by tray icon (tray icon reports 40% and Action Center reports 44%, etc., and tray icon can never reach 100% via mouse wheel maxing out at 90%);
• no dynamic popup update when percentage changes (like TrayVolumeControl has);
• high RAM usage (up to 19 MB);
• lags and delays.

P.S. It is important to note the BrightnessControl version 1.0 published at GitHub releases isn't working. You can download the working EXE and DLL from this GitHub folder (they are the same version as provided via Microsoft Store page, I checked via Online Link Generator for Microsoft Store) and execute it from any location.

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