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
Variables
;*********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”
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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] "
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ToggleWheel2="[!RainmeterToggleMeter ButtonShutDown] [!RainmeterToggleMeter ButtonRestart][!RainmeterToggleMeter ButtonSleep][!RainmeterToggleMeter ButtonLogOff]”
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MainButton Meter=Button X=200 Y=90 ButtonImage=Icons\Home.png ButtonCommand=!Execute #ToggleWheel#
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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
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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#”]
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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 :)
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