Automatic Color Change.

[CyberTheWorm]

hy guyzz......i need to change the border colour automatically.....please help me to change its colour.....i dont know the codding of the skins.......
this is the skin code:

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[Rainmeter]
Author=Media Maggot | Daelnz

[Metadata]
Name=Border
Information=Border Image in 1366 x 768
License=Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0
Version=1.1.0

[MeterBackground]
Meter=image
Imagename=border 1366x768.png
Antialias=1
Position=On Desktop

That is an image, so unless something else is changing that file to colour will never change

[fonpaolo]

Not only, as CyberTheWorm said, you're trying to change the color at an image, but Position=On Desktop is wrong.
Using a bang it's !ZPos, however, I think you're trying to set the position of the skin "On desktop" and this is done with right click on the skin and then Manage skin.

[balala]

hy guyzz......i need to change the border colour automatically.....please help me to change its colour.....i dont know the codding of the skins.......

CyberTheWorm's probably right, you can't change the color of an image (or maybe within some limits you could, using the ColorMatrix options, but that's too complicated and probably doesn't even worth).
But depending on the incriminated image, maybe it could be replaced with a Shape meter. Please first post the border 1366x768.png image, to can see if I'm right and it really could be replaced by a proper Shape meter.

[fonpaolo]

No balala, I know it very well, it's a border image all around the desktop, the center is transparent.
I doubt you can change the color of only one portion of it.

The Shape meter is (almost) doable, you need to fill the internal of the border with some gradients...

Edit, if you want to try...

[balala]

No balala, I know it very well, it's a border image all around the desktop, the center is transparent.
I doubt you can change the color of only one portion of it.

The Shape meter is (almost) doable, you need to fill the internal of the border with some gradients...

Edit, if you want to try...

Well, that indeed looks complicated enough to not worth to create it with a Shape meter. I didn't know the image, that's why at a first look I though maybe a properly created Shape meter could help, but it seems it can't.

[fonpaolo]

Well, that indeed looks complicated enough to not worth to create it with a Shape meter. I didn't know the image, that's why at a first look I though maybe a properly created Shape meter could help, but it seems it can't.

Doh!
I have to admit that if someone had done it for me, he would've saved me to do it myself in future... and it's not only one!

[fonpaolo]

Maybe I can (partially) help, Leon James:
What color do you need?

[eclectic-tech]

No balala, I know it very well, it's a border image all around the desktop, the center is transparent.
I doubt you can change the color of only one portion of it.

The Shape meter is (almost) doable, you need to fill the internal of the border with some gradients...

Edit, if you want to try...

You could use the Chameleon plugin and ImageTint to automatically color the image based on your wallpaper:

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[MeterBackground]
Meter=image
Imagename="border 1366x768.png"
Antialias=1
ImageTint=[mBorderColor]
DynamicVariables=1

[ChameleonDesktop]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=Chameleon
Type=Desktop
DynamicVariables=1

[mBorderColor]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=Chameleon
Parent=ChameleonDesktop
Format=Dec
Color=Dark1
OnChangeAction=[!UpdateMeter *][!Redraw]
DynamicVariables=1

Since the interior image is invisible, the ImageTint only affects the border.This example uses Chameleon, but you could manually set the image tint to any color, and set it to greyscale first, if it is tinted.

EDIT: To use a different preset color in Chameleon modify 'Color=' to: Light1, Light2, Dark1, or Dark2.

[balala]

You could use the Chameleon plugin and ImageTint to automatically color the image based on your wallpaper:

Well eclectic-tech, using the ImageTint option seems a good idea. I never used it, in those few cases when I tried to achieve something like this, I tried with ColorMatrix, but it seemed complicated enough to renounce very soon.
My conclusion, again: there's always something new to be learned.

[fonpaolo]

Thanks eclectic-tech for the suggestion, I had also thought about it, but I never used it and I was thinking it would've changed the color of the whole skin, regardless of the transparent parts.