Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
I'm using Mozilla and it appears that the Asus email LED only works for Microsoft mailers. The Chkmail program explicitly searches for a window named "Outlook Express Browser" and digs thru that to see if you have new mail. It also uses MAPI, which works with Outlook. I suppose if I hacked Mozilla to fake these out, that would be one way to go. Or I could hack Chkmail to use the SHGetUnreadMailCount(). That would solve the problem for Windows. Getting things working for Linux would be trickier, that means talking to the ACPI BIOS directly. The ATKACPI.SYS driver is only 6KB which isn't a lot of code. Easy enough to disassemble. Anyone else looked into this yet?
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Yeah, that would be a good idea.
Here's the code I have to toggle the Mail LED on and off.
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#include <windows.h>
#include <shlobj.h>
#define MLED 0x44454c4d
HRESULT WINAPI SHGetUnreadMailCountW(
void *hKeyUser,
void *MailAddress,
void *count,
FILETIME *stamp,
void *Shellcommand,
int doShell);
HANDLE ATKACPIhandle;
int CtrlACPI(int code, int arg, int onoff)
{
long bytes = 0;
long inbuf[5];
struct cmbuf {
short cmds[2];
long cm2;
} cbuf;
long outbuf[192];
int ret;
cbuf.cmds[0] = 0;
cbuf.cmds[1] = 4;
cbuf.cm2 = onoff;
inbuf[0] = 2;
inbuf[1] = code;
inbuf[2] = arg;
inbuf[3] = 8 * arg;
inbuf[4] = (long)&cbuf;
ret = DeviceIoControl(ATKACPIhandle, 0x222404, inbuf, sizeof(inbuf),
outbuf, sizeof(outbuf), &bytes, NULL);
return ret;
}
main()
{
FILETIME stamp = {0};
long old = 0, count;
ATKACPIhandle = CreateFile("\\.\ATKACPI", GENERIC_READ|GENERIC_WRITE,
FILE_SHARE_READ|FILE_SHARE_WRITE, NULL, OPEN_EXISTING, 0,
NULL);
if (!ATKACPIhandle) {
MessageBox(NULL,"Can't open ACPI ATK0100","ERROR",MB_ICONERROR);
exit(0);
}
for (;
{
SHGetUnreadMailCountW(NULL, NULL, &count, &stamp, NULL, 0);
if ( count != old ) {
old = count;
CtrlACPI(MLED, 1, count == 0);
}
sleep(10000);
}
}
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I compiled this using gcc under Msys/Mingw. Basically the main loop checks to see if there is any unread mail, toggles the LED if the new unread count is different from the previous count, and then sleeps for 10 seconds before looking again.
It's not great, it looks like Mozilla doesn't set the counter to zero after you've read all your email. It won't set the counter to zero until you exit. So pretty much, as soon as you get new mail, the LED will stay on. Anyway, the important bit of this code is how to set up the parameters to the Asus device driver to tell it to turn the LED on and off, everything else is just frill... -
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Where did u get magical numbers like $44454c4d???
Im just trying to rewrite your function in Delphi...
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ATKACPIhandle:cardinal;
const
MLED:integer=$44454c4d;
function AsusLight(onoff:integer):boolean;
type
cmbuf=record
cmds:array[0..1] of smallint;
cm2:integer;
end;
var
hasarg:integer;
bytesWORD;
inbuf:array[0..4] of integer;
outbuf:array[0..191] of integer;
cbuf:cmbuf;
nOverlapped;
begin
hasarg:=1;
bytes:= 0;
cbuf.cmds[0] := 0;
cbuf.cmds[1] := 4;
cbuf.cm2 := onoff;
inbuf[0] := 2;
inbuf[1] := MLED;
inbuf[2] := hasArg;
inbuf[3] := 8 * hasArg;
inbuf[4] := integer(@cbuf);
n:=nil;
result:=DeviceIoControl(ATKACPIhandle, $222404, @inbuf,
sizeof(inbuf),
@outbuf, sizeof(outbuf), bytes, n);
end;
------------------------------------------------------------------->
But this code still not works properly =(
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Ur joking right? [
] If not, what a coincidence.
Btw, I have an old compiler, with a shell32.lib that doesn't have SHGetUnreadMailCountW, so I changed ur code to call SHGetUnreadMailCountW through a pointer. My version is here.Last edited by a moderator: Feb 2, 2015 -
thx for your nice program!
one more problem solved on my m6800n
by the way:
do you think it is possible to write a program for configuring the special keys?
i was searching for long time for a tool which allows this but found nothing.
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Wow, looks like your making some progress on this. Well done - just think of all the Asus laptop owners out there who will innevitably benefit from this patch for thunderbird.
P.S Should reflect new mail untill read, similar to that horrible microsoft product OE
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Hello all!
First of all, thanx for this program. Actually, not for the program but for the ideea.
Vitiy:
The problem with the delphi conversion is that you don't open driver.
You just have to trow
somewhere in your application. Otherwise, it works like a charm.Code:ATKACPIhandle:=CreateFile('\.ATKACPI', GENERIC_WRITE, FILE_SHARE_WRITE, NIL, OPEN_EXISTING, 0, 0);
Right now i'm tring to do a delphi program to blink your wireless led as long as a certain hosts responds to ping... Usefull when playing games
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Hey, I came across this forum accidentally while doing a little digging around about the Asus W1N, great forum
In any case, I have a question about this chkMail app... How long does the light stay on for before turning off?
I'm asking because I use Outlook 2003, and the asus chkmail never seemed to work for me... And when I tried highlandsun's the light just seems to stay on.. I've marked all my messages as read so I would assume that it would turn off.
Ideas?
It'd be cool to have this work
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bwahaha. Thanks Highlandsun, I did a bit more digging around and found the registry key that was being updated (from borg's post about thunderbird) and now see what's going on. It has my hotmail address in there as well which *does* have unread messages.
I just deleted that key and it works like a charm!
Thanks!!
Now, maybe we could have a config file to ignore certain addresses?
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Asus Chkmail
Discussion in 'Asus' started by highlandsun, Jul 22, 2004.
