Thread: Gmail - New Email Count - Label & Indicator

Originally Posted by 1Munkey

Awesome. I'd love to see what professional programmers call "sloppy code". We get all self-conscious about our custom apps for custom hardware that run with near zero footprint while I can't count how much crap I've broke throwing things in disguist with "professional" programs.

How has the app been running on your comp? Are you getting it to refresh pretty quick. I've tried a few different scenarios with and without gmail running and can't get any consistency in a reload.

Let me know when you throw out a new release.

Professional programmer? hardly. This is my first bit of code that actually interacts with another program. The only other thing I've really built is my own little NetDetect program. And it's actually quite similar to many other programs on this site. lol.

The app is running great now. Updates the count and indicators almost as soon as the email count is changed, up or down or all read. There will be a slight consistency issue as it's reloading the webpage, so if the site is slow, the connect is used by something else, or many other things, it can vary. But with the force reload, it should be more consistent now You don't need Gmail to be running elsewhere, as the program does it in the background.

newest version worked for me.... after about 5 mins. Better late than never tho! Thanks steve

Originally Posted by Sonicxtacy02

newest version worked for me.... after about 5 mins. Better late than never tho! Thanks steve

Glad it's working for you now. Any indication as why it's slow to update on your setup? Here at the house I have it setup with 0 for the polling. It's updating as fast as the page can reload. How's it look on your cpu processes?

The CPU will go between 0-6% usually 0-3% with 6,548K of mem. Can't figure out why it doesn't want to update sometimes. It looks to me like it's running every second but it updates when it wants to. I've also seen the indicator without any number in the label. Haven't seen the label without an indicator though. What version of RR are you running? I'm running the 2/7/07 version.

Originally Posted by 1Munkey

The CPU will go between 0-6% usually 0-3% with 6,548K of mem. Can't figure out why it doesn't want to update sometimes. It looks to me like it's running every second but it updates when it wants to. I've also seen the indicator without any number in the label. Haven't seen the label without an indicator though. What version of RR are you running? I'm running the 2/7/07 version.

Have you grabbed the newest version of GmailCount?

As far as RR, I'm running the latest public release. 11/12/06

Ah I didn't even see it got updated. Missed that post. I'll run it tonite though....with sound. Guino had a beta release sometime, I don't remember why or how but i think it's here http://www.kompassist.co.uk/BETA/

Originally Posted by 1Munkey

Ah I didn't even see it got updated. Missed that post. I'll run it tonite though....with sound. Guino had a beta release sometime, I don't remember why or how but i think it's here http://www.kompassist.co.uk/BETA/

Yeah the updated version should have fixed the count/indicator issue as well as fixing the refresh... but do note that it will only update as fast as it can reload a browser page. There is also a polling option in the config.ini file. It's in Milliseconds so set it to whatever you need. 0 is the fastest of course

OH... lol and yeah, I don't usually fool with the betas... Thanks though.

Money! Really like the tray icons. It definately loads quickly and consistently. Great job!

Originally Posted by 1Munkey

Money! Really like the tray icons. It definately loads quickly and consistently. Great job!

Cool... Yeah I tried to spruce it up a bit. oh and Thanks

CPU usage still good?