![]() ![]() So let's load our new skin and take a look at where we stand. We will go into much more detail on different types of actions and Bangs in future tutorials. In this case, we are launching the application Notepad.exe found in the folder C:\Windows\System32\. LeftMouseUpAction=: This is a mouse action, telling Rainmeter to take the defined action option when the meter is clicked with the mouse.SolidColor=0,0,0,1: This is a little trick used to create a solid but invisible "box" behind the string meter, to make clicking on the text easier. ![]() ![]() ![]() The last two options in the meter are what really makes this into a "launcher", and not just some text on the screen. String meters can also use the value of Measures as the text to display, we will go into that in more detail in a future tutorial. Then we are setting the Text option of the meter with Text=Notepad, defining the string of text we wish to display. AntiAlias: Does font smoothing on the text, to improve the display quality.StringStyle: Controls some style options for the string.FontSize: The size in points for the font.FontFace: This determines which font you want to use when displaying the string.So what we are saying here is that we want this first meter to be five pixels right of the left edge of the skin, and five pixels down from the top of the skin. X and Y: These control the position of the meter relative to the overall skin.Formatting control, like the position, size, color and font face can all be set with a combination of General meter options and the options specific to the String meter. It is used to display some text on the screen. This is a String meter, one of the most commonly used meters. Note that the first two things we must do is create a for the meter, and tell Rainmeter what type of meter this is. Then, we can add our first meter to the skin. Building the Launcher skinįirst, as we did in our earlier "hello world" skin, let's add the section to control the Update speed of the skin. Don't load the skin just yet, we need to add some code first. This will open the new skin file in your default text editor. Find Launcher.ini in the list, right-click it and say "Edit". Click on the Refresh all button on the bottom left, and you should see your new Tutorials / Launcher config in the list. Now, left-click the Rainmeter icon in the Windows notification area on your taskbar, to open the Manage dialog. In Windows explorer, you can simply right-click in the folder and say "New / Text document". In that Tutorials\Launcher folder, create a new empty text file. Under that folder, create another new folder called Launcher. In Windows Explorer, create a new folder called Tutorials. We want to keep them together in one root config folder, so we can later look at how to share some settings and resources between them. USE FOR Downloading one of your Rainmeter skin repositories off of 's create a new folder under Skins, where we will store all of the skins we create in these tutorials.You can also use this if you want to create a new skin folder for a new project. USE FOR Locally installed skins (meaning, skins located in Rainmeter's Skins folder).Option 1 Creating a new local repository.There are three basic ways of setting up a repository for a Rainmeter skin in GitHub Desktop. A GitHub account ( Create account here).Windows 7 or newer (technically speaking you could also use GitHub to edit Rainmeter skins on a Mac ).What's a repository you ask? It is "a central location in which data is stored and managed." In order to use GitHub with a Rainmeter skin, we need to create a new repository. NOTE Bear in mind that this is literally my first time writing a guide and I am still refining it. The goal of this guide is to help others learn the basics of using GitHub with their skins. However, if you are like me and have never used GitHub before in your life it can be a bit of a headache trying to figure out how to use it. Among many other things you can use it to keep track of all your changes, create variation of the same skin, easily collaborate with others, and it can serve as a backup in case you loose your local Rainmeter files. GitHub can be an awesome tool to use with your Rainmeter projects. ![]()
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