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Re: New Shape Meter

Posted: November 20th, 2016, 1:41 pm
by rbriddickk84
jsmorley wrote:Any really clever or nice looking example skins using this stuff are always welcome. I'm not the world's most creative or artistic guy, and the more we demonstrate the capabilities, and how it is done, the better for the whole community.
Okay, i just have to wait for the next Rainmeter update to come out, to check if the skin is really works automatically. You know, it slides down, if a new update available, and displays the new and the current versions.
As soon as it works flawlessly, i will post the skin pack! :D
jsmorley wrote:Every shape I draw ends up looking vaguely like a penis, a swastika, or Kim Kardashian's butt...
:rofl: :rolmfao: :rofl: A real artist! :thumbup:

Re: New Shape Meter

Posted: November 20th, 2016, 2:07 pm
by jsmorley
WyzzyMoon wrote:The shape meter is amazing so far, I've been able to simplify the code in my PulseWeb skin massively. Are you working on triangles as stand-alone shapes or will that be something to create with the upcomming Shape=Path 0,0 | LineTo 50,0 | LineTo 50,50 | ... ?

It would be cool to fill the weird and changing shapes this skin creates
We are not opposed to adding some "popular" shapes stand alone, but a triangle is really a pretty simple three segment closed path. We concentrated on Rectangle, since it is some work to round the corners manually, and Ellipse, which is tricky to get symmetrical with just curves..

As you will see in a couple of hours, a triangle is really just two segments and a ClosePath.

Re: New Shape Meter

Posted: November 22nd, 2016, 4:35 pm
by jsmorley
We have added some "image spoilers" in the documentation for the Shape meter. While we didn't want to bulk up the length of the page with a lot of images, there are a few cases where a picture is worth a thousand words. They are in:

Custom
StrokeStartCap
StrokeEndCap
StrokeDashes
StrokeLineJoin

https://docs.rainmeter.net/manual-beta/meters/shape/

Re: New Shape Meter

Posted: December 25th, 2016, 4:53 am
by DanielPodo
Incredible! I've always wanted to use rectangles with rounded edges for a material-based theme, and now I can! (easily)

Re: New Shape Meter

Posted: February 11th, 2017, 12:51 pm
by jsmorley
You wanna see someone who is demonstrating how you might use the Shape meter?

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Re: New Shape Meter

Posted: February 12th, 2017, 10:31 am
by Seahorse
Talk about knocking it out of the park... :jawdrop

Re: New Shape Meter

Posted: June 2nd, 2017, 8:10 pm
by rbriddickk84
Greetings! :)

I encountered a strange phenomenon. I finished my notes skin, and all my shapes are working flawelessly, except some simple path-to-path shapes, what i added lastly. Somehow it seems the red values are not working in the Fill Color section!

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
AccurateText=1

[Variables]
i1=70
i2=24
i3=26
i4=28
i5=26
i6=28

[ShapeMeter1]
Meter=Shape
Shape=Path MyPath | StrokeWidth 0 | Fill Color=255,0,0,255
MyPath=0,0 | LineTo 70,0 | LineTo 70,20 | LineTo #i1#,#i2# | LineTo #i1#,#i3# | LineTo 70,#i4# | LineTo 70,60 | LineTo 0,60 | ClosePath 1
X=0
Y=0
UpdateDivider=-1
DynamicVariables=1

The Shape's color is black in this case. If i remove the Alpha section, no effect, same black. It's weird.

Re: New Shape Meter

Posted: June 2nd, 2017, 8:24 pm
by balala
rbriddickk84 wrote:Somehow it seems the red values are not working in the Fill Color section!
With the posted option no color will work. The Shape option of the [ShapeMeter1] meter is wrong. The equal is not needed. replace the Shape=Path MyPath | StrokeWidth 0 | Fill Color[color=#FF0000]=[/color]255,0,0,255 option with Shape=Path MyPath | StrokeWidth 0 | Fill Color 255,0,0,255

Re: New Shape Meter

Posted: June 2nd, 2017, 9:25 pm
by rbriddickk84
balala wrote:With the posted option no color will work. The Shape option of the [ShapeMeter1] meter is wrong. The equal is not needed. replace the Shape=Path MyPath | StrokeWidth 0 | Fill Color[color=#FF0000]=[/color]255,0,0,255 option with Shape=Path MyPath | StrokeWidth 0 | Fill Color 255,0,0,255
:headbang: oh...my....gosh
How idiot i am xD
Why did i do that? :D The equation sign is in my reflexes :D

Thank you very much! Most of the time tiredness is not a good option to debug codes :D

Re: New Shape Meter

Posted: June 3rd, 2017, 6:14 am
by balala
No, you're not! We all do such mistakes sometimes, I think. Me definitely. It happens to all of us, from time to time. Don't worry.