Gadgets Additions 4.5.1 - extend your Gadgets suite

dudebaker · Post by **dudebaker** » August 18th, 2017, 5:42 pm

Gadgets Additions

Additional gadgets inspired by the well-known AddGadgets.com Windows Sidebar gadgets and Orbmu2k's gadgets.

This suite was created as addition to SilverAzide's suite to complete the move of our beloved Addgadgets.com collection from Windows Sidebar-Gadgets to Rainmeter.
Since many things like power control or volume control were never covered by Addgadgets, Orbmu2k's gadgets were a great addition at the time, so some gadgets were also redone for the suite.

Over time, many more gadgets have been added to the suite which none of both awesome collections ever had.

Styling

You can choose between several different styles through the launcher skin to set it globally and customize some of the used colors:

Default: Typical gradient styled background we know and love
Blurred Edges: Colored Background (changeable) with blurred edges
Solid Color: Colored Background (changeable)
Solid Accent: Colored background, uses the defined windows accent color
Modern Gadgets: Matches mostly the Modern Gadgets style by raiguard
Glass Blur: Windows 7 styled blurred background (Aero)
Glass Acrylic: Windows 10 styled blurred background

Both glass variations require Win8/10

Each skin has a settings skin and can be scaled individually for any resolution.
Detailed descriptions for each setting can be found via tooltips, easily accessible by hovering the setting text with your cursor.

Media skins

Media Control

All in one Media Control with 3 different skins changeable via the context menu
Simple Media Control:
- Uses media-key-strokes to control the current local media player (works out of the box with more or less all local players)
Local Media Control:
- Shows metadata from a local media player and the cover-image if available, hover the skin to reveal the controls
- The used player has to be set in the settings skin! (AIMP, CAD, iTunes, MediaMonkey, Spotify, Winamp, WMP, WLM)
- Not all features work with all players (more: Rainmeter Documentation)
Web Media Control:
- Shows metadata from a web media player and the cover-image if available, hover the skin to reveal the controls
- A browser extension has to be installed! Chrome Firefox
- Supported sites: Amazon Music, Deezer, Google Play Music, Pandora, Plex (Music), PocketCasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Tidal, Twitch, Youtube
- Additionally the skin supports the Spotify Desktop App (including the cover what does not work with the Local Media Control), but sadly this doesn't work out of the box...
  - Patch your Spotify Desktop installation with Spicetify.
  - This has to be redone each time the Spotify app gets an update.
Shows Title progression in percent, time and background-bar
The cover image can be undocked to an independent skin with a click on the icon located top left or with the context menu
Volume control via mouse wheel

Volume Control

Shows the audio output of the default audio device
The audio device name can be shown/hidden with the context menu
Shows the Volume level in percent, volume bar and speaker-icon-change
The volume can be controlled via dragging or double-clicking the volume-bar or using the mouse wheel
Sound analyzers/visualizers are available in the context menu:
- Block Analyzer in multiple sizes (3x3, 5x5, 7x7, 9x9, 11x11, 15x15, 25x25)
- Histogram Analyzer with stereo support
- Spectrum Analyzer with 20 bars
- Surround Analyzer with 7.1 channel support
Many settings for fine-tuning the analyzers

System skins

Console

Run console commands

Gallery

Shows a random image out of a local folder

HWiNFO Monitor

Shows up to 20 HWiNFO sensors (HWiNFO required!)
HowTo configure your sensors: Rainmeter Documentation
The displayed name can be customized for each sensor individually or leave the name-variable blank to use the sensor-name returned by HWiNFO
All colors can be customized
Hover the sensor to show the minimum, maximum and average values

Keylocks

Shows the lock status of Numlock, Capslock and Scrollock

Launcher

Lists all of my skins with their states (active/inactive)
Easy way to open/close each skin
Enable/Disable custom context menu suite wide
Select the style suite wide
Change the used colors via RGBA values or ColorPicker
If there's a skin-suite update available a message will appear

Notes

Shows up to 5 notes with titles

Ping

Shows a ping monitor for up to 5 destinations which works with any address/IP
Downtime counter, average measuring and max latency values
Logs timeouts to file (double-click the graph to open the file)
Additional skin accessible via the context menu for Ping with DNSlookup (but doesn't work with local stuff)
- Uses the API from hackertarget.com (~100 requests per day)
- Tries to parse the A-Record from the DNSlookup and uses this IP as destination
- Hover the address to see the pinged IP

Power Control

Shows the current power plan

Recycle Bin

Shows the recycle bin in elements, size and trash-icon-change

Search

Shows a windows search bar
As default the search is globally but can be changed to only indexed files

Shortcuts

Shows up to 6 shortcuts for files
You can use any file and combine it with any icon
The Settings skin contains [Gen.]-Buttons with which you'll automatically create and use the icon out of the entered filepath\filename (ex.: C:\Windows\explorer.exe)

Shutdown Control

Shows a shutdown control for
- Shutdown
- Restart
- Lock
- Log off
- Suspend (sleep)
A click on each button resizes the skin and shows the options
- Do it now
- Do it in x seconds
- Cancel

System Info

Shows information about the computer, logged-in user and OS:
- Computer name
- Domain-name/Workgroup-name and username
- OS version, architecture (32/64bit) and build number

Usage Monitor

Shows the current system-resource usage by the following categories (perfmon.exe counters):
- CPU
- RAM
- GPU (works only with Win 10!)
- VRAM (works only with Win 10!)
- IO-READ
- IO-WRITE
- Custom
The GPU/VRAM entries can be hidden via the context menu, useful for Win7/8 users
Each category can be clicked to open another skin which shows the top processes (up to 10)
Features:
- Blacklist (ignore these processes)
- Whitelist (monitor only these processes)
- Enable/Disable grouping of process-instances
- Process entries to show individually for each category (1-10)
- Enable/Disable colorizing the entries through all opened instances based on the process-name
- Enable/Disable custom perfmon.exe counter
- Settings for custom perfmon.exe counter (Name, Category, Counter, Percent, Append)

Web skins

Earthquakes

Shows up to 5 earthquakes fetched from EMSC-CSEM
As default there will be shown all earthquakes world-wide but this can be changed to a regional feed too!
Use their configurator and copy the resulting Feed URL into the settings skin: Configurator
IMPORTANT: use json as format in the configurator!
Each earthquake entry:
- Distance calculation to a given position
- Show specific magnitude and distance values in red color
- Globe-Button to open another skin which shows an image of this earthquake which is zoom-able in/out 3 stages (globe, regional, local)
- Maps-Button to open a browser with google maps on this position
Europe/World-Buttons to open skins which shows all earthquakes in the last 24h Europe/World-wide (images use iris.edu as source)
Miles/Kilometers can be set

Gallery Unsplash

Shows a random image from Unsplash

RSS Reader

Shows up to 10 entries of a RSS-feed (Default: BBC)

RSS Reader Alternative

Shows up to 10 entries of a RSS-feed (Default: reddit)
Mainly created for reddit but can be used for other atom or uncommon feeds
Difference to RSS Reader:
- The date format on each feed-entry has to be "yyyy-mm-ddTh:i:s" instead of the long datetime
- The link has to be in a href instead of inside the tags

Search Web

Shows a web search bar
As default the search is set to use google but can be changed to any other search engine

Market skins

Cryptocurrencies

Shows up to 10 cryptocurrencies fetched from CoinCap.io (~200 request per minute allowed)
Use the coin-name out of the the URL from CoinCap.io
- Examples: BTC use bitcoin, for BNB use binance-coin
- Example URL: https://coincap.io/assets/bitcoin
Only USD as target is possible!
Shows icons for From-/To-Currency
Color-change on rise/fall

Currencies

Shows up to 10 currencies fetched from CNBC
Use the symbol string out of the given URL from CNBC
- Examples: USDEUR, GBP=, EUR=, JPY=, EURCH=
- Example URL: https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/?symbol=USDEUR
Shows icons for From-/To-Currency (uses the same batch of icon like the Cryptocurrencies skin)
Color-change on rise/fall

Stocks

Shows up to 10 stocks fetched from CNBC
Use the symbol string out of the given URL from CNBC
- Examples: .DJI, DAX, GOOGL, MSFT, .SPX, @GC.1
- Example URL: https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/.DJI
Color-change on rise/fall
Shown names can be overridden in the skin variables file

BOINC skins

BOINCstats

Shows data fetched from BOINCstats for a given CPID
- Switch between User/Team/Host CPIDs
- Show/hide stats including shares with the context menu
Additional skins for the selected type (User/Team/Host):
- Show up to 10 projects (use project name from "Project list" table out of your boincstats.com profile site in the settings skin)
- Show the best ten days
- Show the last ten days
- Show the BOINC badges fetched from stats.free-dc.org

Requirements

Rainmeter 4.5.18 or later
.NET Framework 4.5 or later
HWiNFO Meter requires HWiNFO 7.02 or later

Version History

Honorable mentions

SilverAzide for the Gadgets suite
raiguard for the ModernGadgets suite and the ColorPickerPlus skin used by the Launcher skin
keifufu for the WebNowPlaying plugin used by the Media Control skin
NighthawkSLO for the Mouse plugin used by the Volume Control and ColorPickerPlus skins
TheAzack9 for the FrostedGlass plugin used for the glass blur/acrylic backgrounds
jsmorley for the
- ConfigActive plugin used by the Launcher skin
- ImageSize plugin used by the Earthquakes, Galleries and Media Control skins
- CursorColor plugin used by the ColorPickerPlus skin
brianferguson for the
- HotKey plugin used by the Keylocks skin
- SysColor plugin used for the accent color backgrounds
pasnox for the oxygen-icons used in this suite
spothq for the cryptocurrency icons

License

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

Post by **SilverAzide** » August 18th, 2017, 6:33 pm

dudebaker · Post by **dudebaker** » March 10th, 2018, 11:14 pm

Updated OP with v1.1
[NEW] BOINCstats Tracker

dudebaker · Post by **dudebaker** » March 16th, 2018, 5:43 pm

Updated OP with v1.1.1
Bugfix

dudebaker · Post by **dudebaker** » March 18th, 2018, 2:56 pm

Updated OP with v1.2
[NEW] BOINCstats/GridcoinStats Projects views

dudebaker · Post by **dudebaker** » March 24th, 2018, 4:55 pm

Updated OP with v1.3
[NEW] BOINCstats Best/Last 10 days views

dudebaker · Post by **dudebaker** » March 31st, 2018, 1:24 pm

Updated OP with v1.4
[NEW] Currency Tracker
[NEW] Stock Tracker

dudebaker · Post by **dudebaker** » April 1st, 2018, 9:06 pm

Updated OP with v1.5
[NEW] Notes
[NEW] Shortcuts

dudebaker · Post by **dudebaker** » April 29th, 2018, 7:09 pm

Big Thank You to the Rainmeter Developer Team for the UsageMonitor-Plugin!

Actually the v2.0 update should come only with the scaling feature.
But since this killed my complete way of positioning (and I was anyway annoyed of all those useless position calculation and seeing always the same code) I've started something bigger and I think I went quietly over the goal

.

I've build more or less a small "Template-System" (Up to 6 includes) with which a new AddGadgets styled skin can be created in "seconds".
But till I got there, this was some headache...

More or less each time I've killed the template-system and I didn't got it running in hours I've created a new skin.
That's the reason for Media Control / Recycle Bin / Volume Control

.

This week I wanted to finish the skin and release it... but no, there has to come this new plugin

.
And so another round till I'm mostly ready and see that SilverAzide releases his new skin and has the same features as mine...

And so another round...

, but now can I deliver my own interpretation of the usage monitor

.

Feedback welcome!

PS:
Some when in the meantime I've renamed the skin cause I was annoyed of his name-length...

v2.1 will have the click sections for the scale-issue in rainmeter... but not now, I'm near dead and have to do one step back from rainmeter

.

Post by **SilverAzide** » April 30th, 2018, 12:53 am

Big thumbs up!

I just wanted to mention, there is a minor bug in UsageMonitor that is affecting your GPU Usage Monitor skin. In your screenshot, you can see the percentages are all zero (0.00%). Percent=1 does not appear to be working properly; it causes the measures to return zero. I found that you can change to...

Code: Select all

Percent=0
MinValue=0.0
MaxValue=100.0

...to work around this issue until it is fixed. Or just wait for the next beta.

Anyway, keep up the good work!

Gadgets Additions 4.5.1 - extend your Gadgets suite

Gadgets Additions 4.5.1 - extend your Gadgets suite

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