What am I doing wrong?

[endevor100]

I kind of guessed putting in the \n was unnecessary but like I said I've been at this a while, what skin are you using to display the quotes and how do you point it at the quote measure?

[jsmorley]

I kind of guessed putting in the \n was unnecessary but like I said I've been at this a while, what skin are you using to display the quotes and how do you point it at the quote measure?

[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
DynamicWindowSize=1

[MeasureQuote]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=Plugins\QuotePlugin.dll
PathName=quotes.txt
UpdateDivider=300

[MeterQuote]
Meter=String
X=0
Y=0
W=200
H=200
MeasureName=MeasureQuote

Exactly that. Just like yours. Works fine.

[endevor100]

that's agrivating

[jsmorley]

that's agrivating

You are zigging where you should be zagging somewhere. Are you absolutely sure the skin is loading? Is it on the list of active configs when you right click the Rainmeter context menu? Again, are you sure the text isn't there but hidden on a dark background? Try exiting Rainmeter and restarting it, then load the skin.

[endevor100]

I don't think the skin is loading that's where I'm getting lost

[endevor100]

Do I need to find a skin within a theme to utilize the plugin or is meter/measure a skin? If it's the later how do i get them to come up on the list of active configs? Also I switched to a blue background to make sure that white or black the text would be readable.

[jsmorley]

I don't think the skin is loading that's where I'm getting lost

How are you loading it? Using the Rainmeter context menu, or RainBrowser?

[jsmorley]

To add a new skin to Rainmeter, you want to:

1) Create the skin (.ini) in Notepad++ The one you posted (and I also posted) will work fine as is.

2) Save the skin .ini to a folder under My Documents\Rainmeter\Skins. Create a new folder under that, called Quote or something. So you will have:

My Documents
- Rainmeter
-- Skins
--- Quote

and in Quote will be Quote.ini or whatever you name the skin .ini file.

3) Then do a "Refresh All" of Rainmeter, from the context menu or RainBrowser. This is critical.

4) Load the skin with the context menu or RainBrowser. Should pop right up and be on the list of active skins.

[jsmorley]

p.s. Be sure quote.txt is in that same folder as well...

[endevor100]

Alright it works now, thank you for holding my hand through that