AlienFX Lite (Linux + Windows AlienFX tool)

[xeroxide]

watto's i love the program to bits
there is one niggling issue which really bugs me however.

if i edit the colours for a while, the app will hang
once it has hung, any animation/morphing in the theme will stop

only a full restart and power drain will fix it after this.

i'm using windows 7 x64.

once again tyvm and ++rep

[fxd0h]

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[BobDorian]

Aside from making a daemon or providing the DLLs for working with AlienFX, is it possible to document the protocols used for talking with the hardware? This may be easier for those who want to write tools in other languages, e.g. C# or Python.

I would also definitely be interested in a documentation of the protocols or just a release of the source code for version 0.4 as that would be just as good. I have just recently bought a m11x and want to change the lights from inside a program without the restrictions that come with the alienfx sdk but, I am having trouble figuring out the protocol.

[Ashtefere]

Looks like a great tool!

Is there a way for your app to change the colors of the Alienware tactx devices (im pretty sure the keyboard is a G19 and mouse is a G9).

It would really complete the setup I have.

-Ash

[Dax25]

Hey Everyone,

I'm new to Linux, I have a M17X and have been trying to get AlienFX Lite to work but so far I've had bad luck. I have downloaded the first version from the url posted and it's I keep it in my downloads folder. I have installed Java and libusb-1.0-0 with out any problems. However, when I try to manually open the file "sudo java -jar AlienFXLite-0.1.jar “ I get an “Unable to access jarfile AlienFXlite-0.1.jar” I have tried many things but I have a feeling I'm doing something stupid and I'm going to want to hit myself when I figure it out. Any Ideas what I'm doing wrong, any help would be greatly appreciated. Also, I am running Ubuntu 10.04.

[Konig]

You're sure you've downloaded v0.1? Current version is 0.4b.
Change the path and it should work

[Dax25]

Hey,

I just want to be sure I understand because I am so new at this. When you say change the path do you mean change the Java path? If so what should I change it to? "which java" shows that it currently set to /usr/bin/java.

[Dax25]

nvm, I got it and yea I was doing some stupid lol thanks for the help I'm happy I actually decided to ask or else It would of taken a lot longer to realize what I was doing. Very Nice program

[Tedster59]

Just installed on my m11x r2, and working great

+rep

[Wattos]

Looks like a great tool!

Is there a way for your app to change the colors of the Alienware tactx devices (im pretty sure the keyboard is a G19 and mouse is a G9).

It would really complete the setup I have.

-Ash

I dont have any of these, therefore I cannot reverse engineer nor test this for this stuff. As a matter of fact, I wanted to get the tactx keyboard, but its not available in europe (and Im addicted to the UK keyboard layout)

nvm, I got it and yea I was doing some stupid lol thanks for the help I'm happy I actually decided to ask or else It would of taken a lot longer to realize what I was doing. Very Nice program

Just installed on my m11x r2, and working great

+rep

Glad it works out for you guys