CirqueForge wrote:
Yeah, I pretty much want to hide all of it. I have 14 skins, including the application and folders bar. If I'm not misunderstanding you, a hot spot would be a spot/button where I would hide/unhide it, right? I would be fine with that implementation, if the spot doesn't have to be marked a distracting color.
Ok, if you get the latest 1.3 beta at
http://Rainmeter.net (there are ways to do this with 1.2, but we are releasing 1.3 in a week anyway, and there is a really easy clean way to do it with 1.3)
Now, from the Rainmeter context menu, click on "Edit Settings".
You will see a [section] for each of your configs/skins. They will have the name of the config in braces, followed by a bunch of settings like Active= and WindowX= and WindowY= and such.
To each of these sections, add a line:
Group=HideMe
Save Rainmeter.ini...
Now let's create a really simple little skin.
In a text editor, add the following:
[Rainmeter]
Update=500
[MeterCornerImage]
Meter=Image
W=10
H=10
SolidColor=0,0,0,1
MouseOverAction=!Execute [!RainmeterToggleGroup HideMe]
That's it. Save that in a new folder and file in My Documents\Rainmeter\Skins\CornerHide\CornerHide.ini
Now from the Rainmeter context menu do a "Refresh All", then load that new skin.
By default it will be an invisible square in the upper left corner of your screen that when you mouse over will hide and unhide all other Rainmeter skins.
If you want to move it, the best way is to use Rainbrowser, and under "Skin Settings" set the WindowX and WindowY where you want it. It will be hard to drag as it is invisible.
You can change the SolidColor= to any color (it's red,green,blue,alpha) and transparency you want, or even use an image or icon if you prefer by changing SolidColor= to ImageName= and putting in the name of an image.