Active=?

[Ben Hill]

Can someone direct me to the explanation of Active=0,1,2, or 3 in the Rainmeter.ini?

I was trying to correct some Rainmeter freeze by closing all my skins and reopening them one by one. After I found the offender I thought I could restart all the rest by changing the Active=0 line. I knew there were three options, but I couldn't find the difference among 1, 2, or 3 in the manual.

[jsmorley]

Active= just tells Rainmeter which .ini file is loaded in a folder with more than one. Remember that only one .ini file can be loaded at a time from a single folder.

Active=0
No .ini files are loaded from the config folder. Just means the skin is not currently loaded at all.

Active=x
Which skin .ini file, in alphabetical order, in the folder is currently loaded.

Example:
Skins\MyStuff
Skins\MyStuff\LeftClock.ini
Skins\MyStuff\MiddleClock.ini
Skins\MyStuff\RightClock.ini

Active=2
Skins\MyStuff\MiddleClock.ini is currently loaded.

[Ben Hill]

Got it. That's easy enough. Just didn't catch that it was counting the *.ini's in the folder!

Thanks very much.