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Rainmeterlol
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"illustro" inspired notepad?

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Been searching around a bit and couldn't find it.

But is anyone willing to make a "illustro" inspired notepad?
would be grateful<3

// Alex


*Edit (Sorry if i posted in the wrong section )
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A what?
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Chewtoy wrote:A what?
A Notepad :D That looks like the illustro stuffs i think its the skinn u first get when u download Rainmeter? Correct me if im wrong =)

cheers
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A notepad... You mean like windows notepad? Or are you actually talking about rainmeter?
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I think he is looking for a Notes skin based on the Illustro theme
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Yes !!!
tru wrote:I think he is looking for a Notes skin based on the Illustro theme
U said it ! Sorry if i confused you! Im new to this! Started 2 days ago :D haha

Is it even possible?
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Yeah it's possible. And I think you can figure out how to do it yourself by looking at how illustro is coded.
It really is meant to make users understand how to create his/her own skins, so this would be a great skin to start with! (and we don't really do skin requests)

So. To get you started.
The first thing you should understand is how a notes-skin is usually constructed.
1. We got an external file that hold the notes.
This usually have some sort of <notes> </notes> tags making it easy to use WebParser to read it.

2. We got a measure that uses webparser that reads the file.

3. We got meters that displays it.

That is the three basic things about a notes-skin. I would recommend you to download some skin or suit that has a notes-skin and tear that one apart. Much easier to understand what to do then.

Then there is this http://rainmeter.net/cms/Tips-WebParserLocalFiles
How to use webparser on a local file.


Now. If you got any coding question, we will be glad to help out. :)

Also, on a way more cool but more advanced way to to it is like this: http://rainmeter.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=6825
But start with the webparser. ;)
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Chewtoy wrote:Yeah it's possible. And I think you can figure out how to do it yourself by looking at how illustro is coded.
It really is meant to make users understand how to create his/her own skins, so this would be a great skin to start with! (and we don't really do skin requests)

So. To get you started.
The first thing you should understand is how a notes-skin is usually constructed.
1. We got an external file that hold the notes.
This usually have some sort of <notes> </notes> tags making it easy to use WebParser to read it.

2. We got a measure that uses webparser that reads the file.

3. We got meters that displays it.

That is the three basic things about a notes-skin. I would recommend you to download some skin or suit that has a notes-skin and tear that one apart. Much easier to understand what to do then.

Then there is this http://rainmeter.net/cms/Tips-WebParserLocalFiles
How to use webparser on a local file.


Now. If you got any coding question, we will be glad to help out. :)

Also, on a way more cool but more advanced way to to it is like this: http://rainmeter.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=6825
But start with the webparser. ;)
Haha thank you! I will look deeper in to this after work! :D
Thank you very much for your time and help !

Cheers
//Alex
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Re: "illustro" inspired notepad?

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Chewtoy wrote:Yeah it's possible.
(Quoted to get your attention :rosegift:)

Well !! Im almost dunn!
i think.

this is what i came up whit! but i need help to get that "Parsing" thing in there... don't rly understand how it works..
[Rainmeter]
Update=1000

[Metadata]
Name=Notepad

[Variables]
fontName=Trebuchet MS
colorText=255,255,255,205
FontSize=8
AntiAlias=1

[styleTitle]
StringAlign=CENTER
StringCase=UPPER
StringStyle=BOLD
StringEffect=SHADOW
FontEffectColor=0,0,0,50
FontColor=#colorText#
FontFace=#fontName#
FontSize=10
AntiAlias=1
ClipString=1

[styleLeftText]
StringAlign=LEFT
; Meters using styleLeftText will be left-aligned.
StringCase=NONE
StringStyle=BOLD
StringEffect=SHADOW
FontEffectColor=0,0,0,20
FontColor=#colorText#
FontFace=#fontName#
FontSize=#textSize#
AntiAlias=1
ClipString=1

[meterBackground]
Meter=IMAGE
ImageName=#SKINSPATH#\illustro\SHARED\Background5Line.png
X=0
Y=0

[meterTitle]
Meter=STRING
MeterStyle=styleTitle
; Using MeterStyle=styleTitle will basically "copy" the
; contents of the [styleTitle] section here during runtime.
X=100
Y=12
W=190
H=18
Text="Notepad"

[MeterTwo]
Meter=String
X=10
Y=40
FontFace=#fontName#
FontColor=#colorText#
FontSize=#FontSize#
AntiAlias=#AntiAlias#
Text=This is where i want my notes

[MeasureText]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=Plugins\WebParser.dll
Url=file://C:\Users\Alexander\Documents\Rainmeter\Skins\illustro\Notes\Notes1.txt
RegExp="(?siU)Stuff to search for(.*)End of Search"
As i said.. im new to this so dont hate me for trying! :oops:
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