M17x Lighting fx themes!

You could try, but you cannot make your own custom colors. You can make it flash, morph, and switch between colors too.

 

What no custom colors?! is there anything close to the color you see in the screen shots? and can the flash etc.. be timed to be almost like breathing in speed and fading?

Cheers,

Sheppard

 

You can simulate a breathing effect. I'll see what I can come up with on the colors. No promises. Have a few tricks up my sleeve.

 

there is a alien fx program on here that a user made that has custom colors. ill see if i can get the link.

edit: here is the link http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=458528

 

Hi BatBoy and Dslade,

I would like to say thanks so much and BatBoy I look forward to seeing what you can come up with! Thanks again guys.

Cheers,

Sheppard

 

How are those tricks coming along BatBoy?

Sheppard

 

Yeah sorry John... I have not had much time to devote to looking at the custom colors. I played around with it a bit and was able to come close on the Blue/Green but it still looks a bit off to me. Also, given the failed CC update, I am unable to really test it using the new version.

I should have some additional free time to work on this during the week. I'll let you know.

Thanks.

 

Question for M17x R2 (and maybe R1) owners. Is your "white," as selected in the CC editor, really white? Mine, especially the Alienware logo and media control strip look more pink/peach colored. I figure it's an artifact of using colored LEDs to mix rather than using a white LED, but it could also be a controller/LED failure.

 

Its normal nburro. They have tried to get it right/white but cant. I believe you are corect, its simply a limitation of the LEDs, not a controller issue.

 

Thanks--that's what I figured. I'm just a little paranoid because I had an LED go out on my XPS M1710 a few years back (replaced under warranty).

 

Ok thanks BatBoy look forward to see what you come up with later in the week! and thanks for putting time into it for me.

Cheers,

Sheppard

 

how come i cant open any of these? do i got a old version of the command center or something? i got an m17x.

i tried everyway on my command center but there was no way to slowly alternate between colors in my command center. i was in the advanced setting and everything. anyone have any ideas whats wrong with mine?

 

Which verson of M17x. There 3 types frist one was a m17x then M17X and M17x r2

 

If you have the latest type of M17x (R1/R2) you need to download the latest version of CC. Its in this thread somewhere, probly around page 10-ish. The older M17's dont have the right keyboard and CC.

 

i've had my M17x lighting as the Irish flag for the past few months, love it. going to try some of these themes when i get home tonight.

and awesome work by Dslade in particular, you legend!

 

Good to hear. Definately try Dslade's themes, and also try mine..

 

yes i have the m17x R1

i looked in previous posts and i couldnt find the link. is there anywhere on my laptop that says what version of the command center i have? so i can check to see if i have the latest version, im pretty sure i do i just got this laptop

 

If you click the updates button in CC, it should tell you the version number in the dialog box. Another easy way to check is to look at the alienfx editor--if the color selector is two rows of color blocks, it's the old CC, if it's a circle of colors in the middle of the screen, it's the new one.

 

if you update to the very latest command center the cool fast themes will not work. (repeat) WILL NOT WORK. still trying to figure out why.

 

i dont see any updates when im in the command center, all i see is "FX, Fusion, Touch, Sense." and i clicked in all those and i didnt see anywhere that says update,

when i click the FX is asks me to open in basic or advanced. but when i try to open in either one it always opens to "basic" i get in advance from having to click Theme>new> then i have to click advanced there to finally get in it

EDIT: i just went to dell.com and downloaded the newest version of the CC, i tried extracting it and it worked but it didnt say update, it just said repair or remove. so does that mean i have the newest version? i really dont think i do though..

 

Yeah, Dell must've figured out that the 2.5 version of CC has problems--they dropped the previous version (2.0, which you appear to have since there is no update button) back out there as the latest. I rolled back to that version because I was starting to have fx problems yesterday with the 2.5 release (just like everybody else). Bummer, too, I liked the new interface for the fx editor

 

hmm. so what should i do just stick to my version of CC? because i dont want to have problems either, i remember when i first got this my keyboard lights would go out and i had a tech do remote assistance to my computer and update the CC i think, what kind of problems do people have with the new CC??

 

Some say the lights flicker, some say they don't work at all. My particular problem was that not all the LEDs worked unless you went into CC and reapplied the theme. On bootup, the alienhead HDD lights didn't work (again until the theme was reapplied).

I'd wait until the next release comes out. Dell pulled the A05 version of CC last week.

 

Hello all!

I know this is a thread for M17x AlienFX but I wanted to know if someone can help me getting an effect like this :

But on M11x?

Thanks

 

okay i have a plead to all. i will PAY (by like trade or something maybe even cold hard cash, depending on quality) if someone makes me a theme that reacts to Battlefield 2, battlefield bad company 2, utorrent, yahoo (and yahoo mail) , Ccleaner, Mozilla firefox, defragggler, avira, power iso, microsoft word, and itunes. please if you are talented with this email me: [email protected].

 

you cant with the regular AlienFX software which comes from Alienware, as you arent able to change the touchpad colors. AlienFX Lite is capable of doing that, since you can set morph to the touchpad. Check out my signature for a link to the thread

What you are asking is a lot. First off, your alienfx can react to different applications being open with the default editor (look at events). It will change the color of your lightning as long as some executable is running.

If you however by "reacts" you mean that it changes the color due to different events inside the application, then you are out of luck. Its not possible to mod any application without having the source code, so its not possible for most of these applications. Some of these may support plugins which "might" allow for color changes

 

Hi,

Wattos, do you have an API documentation or something near it for AlienFX?

Best regards
Rolf

 

besides the outrages amount of programming and time required for even 1 of these applications, i sought of rolf'd when i saw microsoft word.

do you really want the entire system to scream RED when you misspell a word?

it might harm ones self esteem if one decides to work publicly (like those lovely starbucks folks).

 

Thanks for the info ! I know the touchpad can't be lit but i was talking about the keyboard and others things

I get an error when I launch the program alienFX : Can't access to AlienFX Device or you don't have sufficient rights

 

Well, there are couple things you can do to write your own program with AlienFX. The easiest solution is to use the SDK which comes with the Alienware Command Center. That provided API is a bit slow, and limiting (e.g. you cannot set the lights of the touchpanel or power button, nor can you write anything to eeprom).

Another solution would be to reuse my work, and have an API in Java for playing around with AlienFX. This should also be quite easy if you know what you are doing. Just look at the AlienFXEngine class (the link to the source is in my signature).

Another way would be to only use the "AlienFX" C++ libraries I have created, which connect to the alienFX device and lets you send messages to it. You would have t implement the communication protocol by yourself.

Lastly, the last way (which comes to mind right now), is to start from scratch and use either libusb (on linux) or WriteFile/ReadFile on the device (on Windows) to implement everything from scratch.

If you were to use it, I would either advice you to use the official SDk or my Java solution. It actually has some comments in it, and the AlienFX engine class does all the work, so you might be able to do something fun in there.

 

oh, you want to run it on the M11x. The next version (out this week) will support M11x. Sorry, I didnt read your post completely :x

 

So which ones of these themes DO and DO NOT work as of 3-9-2010 with the M17x-R2?

 

noob question guys, i am trying to make my own theme.
Now i went to advanced mode, and configured everything i want.
Now i want to start adding events, i see a new email event, but everything is disabled, i can't seem to assign colors to zones etc.
I tried adding a custom even - like opening an application, but inside that event everything is disabled too.. how do i fix it ?

 

If you ever played Dark Void you would see that your mistaken. It has the colors change with every press of the button in the game. Really cool but kinda annoying. I'm sure it would take a good deal of programming to make any program run that way. So I agree with you though that it's kinda tough.

 

I dont got the theme folder, in the Alienware folder

Sorry if any posted a way, but 34 pages to read, takes alot of time

Thanks

 

nobody knows the answer to what i asked two posts back ?

 

Oh Noes! This thread is Dying! Where is Dslade?

 

Try selecting a zone other than alienhead or power button. The plus button for adding and action should light up. For whatever reason, those two zones can't be set for events, likely because they already are programmed for battery status.

Interestingly, whe I try to add an application, I get the following:
"Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component"

Anybody seen that one yet?

 

Which version of CC do you have installed and can you post your steps? I'll try to confirm.

 

cc v2.0.14.0

 

Im trying to get the Rainbow theme to work but every time i try to open it with Command Center it says cant be opened.

My CC version is 2.5.43.0

 

Hi, new to the forums, I figured I'd kick off my first post with something helpful I haven't seen a fix for this bug yet.

I've fixed this issue on mine though, and I currently have A05 installed with lights functioning just like normal. This is the method I used, also the video card probably doesn't matter in regards to this I could imagine.

Well after installing A05 on Win 7 X64, the first time i got the flicker issue was after setting the keyboard to pulse mode, a bit irritating, but to hell with it right? A month later my windows reg. got messed up and win7 sucked on the R1 anyhow, so damn it and back to vista.

Here's the trick (no more rambling.)
If you have Win7 & A05 installed and don't mind a clean wipe or fresh install:

Downgrade to vista, use the resource disk to re-install drivers, install every driver for your hardware including OSD, then finally whichever revision is on the disk (can't remember.) This is where it started flashing the keyboard to the old version... BUT, and there's always one of those with the R1, it refused to finish flashing or even lock up the program, so I rebooted, uninstalled it and re-installed again to get the flash successful message!

I haven't tried going back to 7 yet, that's because win 7 sucks for the R1 and believe it or not, vista WILL play your games faster than it. I've got the qx9300 and HD 4870 xfire, and 6gb ddr3-1066 ram and it works better for me.

As always, I claim no responsibility for damages so do this at your own risk, I did.

enjoy,
O.B. WAN.

(sorry for being long winded >.<)

and apparently i didn't notice it said FX not FiX. I've got the color problem where it randomly flickers other colors with A05, this is for that problem.

 

im getting the same problem with all the themes, my alienware is brand new so do i still have to update the cc or have i already got the update?? im on windows 7 Home premium BTW

-EDIT-
Its Ver 2.0.14.0

 

Lets continue this here...

http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-m17x/487802-m17x-alienfx-themes.html

Thanks.

 

I have a really big problem! I tryed out the Watto tool, it is really cool... It worked perfect till it crashed once.. I thought mhm uhkay like Winamp Plugin... so i canceled the task. Restarted. When i tryed to run it again it werent doing anything at all. After a while a error popped up. Something with "Cannot connect to AlienFX Device". The same thing said the ControlCenter. I deinstalled Java, deleted the tool, reinstalled Control Center... Nothing. Now my Keyboard has no Light at all and I don't know what to do... Help? :,(