Old Stereo 1.3.1

[Seahorse]

Whilst Rainmeter doesn't have a plugin to provide VU meter functionality it occurred to me there might be a way of doing this if there was something that did it you could 'wrap' a skin around.

Anyhow I found a programme that generates a VU for Windows (I'm using 7) that puts a pair of old style VU meters on the screen that respond to whatever you have going.

This is where I have got to so far, looks like an old stereo from my childhood, hence the name...

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I want to play with it some more before releasing to be sure it is stable. So far so good...

[IcemanSR]

smart
Nice good clean look too

[Seahorse]

Played with alignment some more. Created an overlay for the CU meter to give it some depth, used it for 48 hours, all seems OK, so pushed it out the door. Quite please with the look and am feeling a bit more comfortable using Gimp now.

You'll need to download Windows VU meter too, otherwise there is a big hole in the skin...

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[smurfier]

Your skin has an OnTrackChange line when it should be TrackChangeAction and it should only be on the main measure. Because of the AutoReset feature of the Marquee script, you actually don't need those lines at all.

You should also be using !CommandMeasure for plugins as well.

[Seahorse]

Hmm, didn't notice OnTrackChange had changed, easily fixed, same for !PluginBang. Mind you having converted these directly from the existing Cobolt media player skin they would date back to the earliest NowPlaying settings so it seems recycling is not always a good idea

I have made the suggested changes. Thank you Sir.

[smurfier]

They automatically reset when their values change. If you want them to reset all at the same time, you will have to use

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TrackChangeAction=!Execute [!CommandMeasure "MeasureLua1" "Timer=0"][!CommandMeasure "MeasureLua2" "Timer=0"][!CommandMeasure "MeasureLua3" "Timer=0"]

[Seahorse]

Changing !Pluginbang to !CommandMeasure for NowPlaying stuff like

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[MeterPrevButton]
Meter=Button
ButtonImage=#ROOTCONFIGPATH#\Images\Button.png
X=240
Y=145
LeftMouseUpAction=!CommandMeasure "MeasurePlayer Previous"

breaks the Previous button, changing it back to !PluginBang restores functionality. The log reports that !CommandMeasure: [MeasurePlayer] not found.

I am using 2.2.1084.

Experimenting further LeftMouseUpAction=!Execute [!CommandMeasure "MeasurePlayer" "Previous"] works, but doesn't seem to tally with the format shown at the bottom of the bangs page - !CommandMeasure ["Measure"] ["Arguments"] ("Config") i.e. LeftMouseUpAction=!CommandMeasure ["MeasurePlayer"] ["Previous"] doesn't work either.

[smurfier]

It's supposed to be !CommandMeasure "MeasureName" "Argument"

Note that the [] means that you must supply the argument for the bang (do not include the []-chars). The () means that the argument is optional.

[Seahorse]

Doh!

[Seahorse]

1.2.2 - Revised to reflect changes made to Process plugin in Rainmeter 2.2.1103
1.2.1 - Code revised to prevent duplicate VU Meters running on refresh of skin.
1.2 - Added VU Meter .exe to skin file & set to autorun with skin.
1.1.2 - Added new icon, fixed lua script path issue. Thanks Qwaftzefoni74
1.1.1 - Added volume level to display.
1.1 Code changes, new LED and Default image.

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