Reading Battery Life Remaining

[scroots]

I have a laptop with a battery and wish to read the amount of power remaining using C or VB. Is this possible?

I did a search on google and a lot of the reults where just rubbish e.g. reviews on batteries.

scroots

[Celtboy]

But of course! Check out the following MSDN documentation:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vbcon98/html/vbconusingsysinfocontrol.asp

and

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vbcon98/html/vbconsysinfoscenario3monitoringbatterypowerstatus.asp


hth,
-Celt

[scroots]

thanks for that looks very interesting. It is a leap forward in the way i want to go.

scroots