Rainmeter Help
How To Create Rainmeter Skins
The skins in rainmeter are not as tough as some people might take them to be. The one thing it requires is for you to have some patients towards the textpad editor and well typing everything out. My personal Favourite skin is the “BarBlack” skin (the aurthor’s name .. i am sure ill look it up and update later). I will provide you step by step guides from where to place files and what to type and so on and so forth :
Things you need:
textpad (windows)
icons to be used – varying in sizes and they would need to be in .png format (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Network_Graphics)
this is a link for the picture of the skin (https://skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?cid=9458b25e54c801a4&resid=9458B25E54C801A4173&authkey=!AEzIzSxoFQEIugs)
1 > Create a Folder on the desktop and name it BarBlack (for puposes of this example)
2 > Open up text pad and save a black .txt file to the folder created on the desktop
3 > Create another folder and name it “Icons” – place the icons with in this folder and give it the appropriate names here is a link to show you the folder with the icons in them (https://skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?cid=9458b25e54c801a4&resid=9458B25E54C801A4173&authkey=!AIA-G9AacZ-MZ9Q)
4 > Open up the blank .txt which should be named “newtextdocument.txt”
5 > here is what should be on the inside of the text pad .. copying and pasting works
Rainmeter
BackgroundMode=1
Author=Tony.n@live.no
AppVersion=1.0
;*********MODIFY THE FOLLOWING LINE*********
Url=https://UserNameHere:PasswordHere@gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom
;*******************************************
RegExp=“(?siU)<fullcount>(.*)</fullcount>”
Codepage=0
DownloadLogo=1
FontName=Verdana
FontSize=4
White=48, 34, 23
Icon1Exe=“C:\Games\Call of Duty- Modern Warfare 3\mw3.exe”
Icon1Img=“icons\Game.png”
Icon2Exe=“C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe”
Icon2Img=“icons\Music.png”
Icon3Img=“icons\reload.png”
Icon4Img=“icons\off.png”
Icon5Img=“icons\minus.png”
Icon6Img=“icons\Lock.png”
Icon7Exe=“C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe”
Icon7Img=“icons\Browser.png”
Icon8Exe=“C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe”
Icon8Img=“icons\vlc.png”
;———————————————————————————————————-
ToggleWheel="[!RainmeterToggleMeter MainWheel] [!RainmeterToggleMeter MeterMailButton] [!RainmeterToggleMeter MeterTitle] [!RainmeterToggleMeter MainText] [!RainmeterToggleMeter Icon1] [!RainmeterToggleMeter Icon2] [!RainmeterToggleMeter Icon4] [!RainmeterToggleMeter Icon5] [!RainmeterToggleMeter Icon6] [!RainmeterToggleMeter Icon7] [!RainmeterToggleMeter PowerButton] [!RainmeterToggleMeter Icon8] "
;———————————————————————————————————-
ToggleWheel2=“[!RainmeterToggleMeter ButtonShutDown] [!RainmeterToggleMeter ButtonRestart][!RainmeterToggleMeter ButtonSleep][!RainmeterToggleMeter ButtonLogOff]”
;———————————————————————————————————-
MainButton
Meter=Button
X=200
Y=90
ButtonImage=Icons\Home.png
ButtonCommand=!Execute #ToggleWheel#
;———————————————————————————————————-
;———————————————————————————————————-
ButtonShutDown
Meter=Button
Hidden=1
ButtonImage=#Icon4Img#
X=280
Y=133
LeftMouseDownAction=%systemroot%\system32\shutdown.exe -s -t 00
ButtonRestart
Meter=Button
Hidden=1
ButtonImage=#Icon3Img#
X=280
Y=65
LeftMouseDownAction=%systemroot%\system32\shutdown.exe -r -t 00
ButtonSleep
Meter=Button
Hidden=1
ButtonImage=#Icon5Img#
X=280
Y=35
LeftMouseDownAction=%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState
ButtonLogOff
Meter=Button
Hidden=1
ButtonImage=#Icon6Img#
X=280
Y=5
LeftMouseDownAction=%systemroot%\system32\shutdown.exe -l
;———————————————————————————————————-
PowerButton
Meter=Button
Hidden=1
X=280
Y=100
ButtonImage=Icons\Light.png
ButtonCommand=!Execute #ToggleWheel2#
Icon1
Meter=BUTTON
Hidden=1
x=340
y=90
ButtonImage=#Icon1Img#
ButtonCommand=!Execute [“#Icon1Exe#”]
Icon2
Meter=Button
Hidden=1
x=400
y=84
ButtonImage=#Icon2Img#
ButtonCommand=!Execute [“#Icon2Exe#”]
Icon7
Meter=Button
Hidden=1
x=460
y=84
ButtonImage=#Icon7Img#
ButtonCommand=!Execute [“#Icon7Exe#”]
Icon8
Meter=Button
Hidden=1
x=520
y=89
ButtonImage=#Icon8Img#
ButtonCommand=!Execute [“#Icon8Exe#”]
;———————————————————————————————————-
Measures
MeasureRSSNews
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=Plugins\WebParser.dll
Url=#Url#
RegExp=#RegExp#
Codepage=#Codepage#
Download=#DownloadLogo#
UpdateRate=120
StringIndex=4
FinishAction=!Execute [!RainmeterRedraw]
;Debug=1
MeasureTitle
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=Plugins\WebParser.dll
Url=MeasureRSSNews
StringIndex=1
UpdateRate=140
IfBelowValue=1
Meters
MeterMailButton
Meter=Button
Hidden=1
X=580
Y=90
W=48
H=35
ButtonImage=Icons\mail_icon.png
LeftMouseDownAction=!Execute [“http://mail.google.com/mail/”]
MeterTitle
Meter=STRING
MeasureName=MeasureTitle
Hidden=1
X=623
Y=90
W=150
H=20
FontColor=#White#
StringStyle=BOLD
FontSize=8
FontFace=#FontName#
AntiAlias=1
ClipString=1
LeftMouseDownAction=!Execute [“http://mail.google.com/mail/”]
.. save the text pad and name it “BarBlack.ini” you will get a notification for changing of format.. hit accept and you are done :) just drop the entire folder into the rainmeter skins folder in your Documents section.
If you have rainmeter already running, do close it and restart it so that it picks up the new skin..
I will post up codes of other skins so that people have an idea of what to add and such :)