Quotes for Rainmeter

[deXxterlab97]

I wanna add inspirational quotes for Rainmeter

I already have a list of quotes I can use
https://docs.rainmeter.net/manual/plugins/quote/

But I have trouble understanding few things

1. How would one have quotes auto change every X seconds/minutes to another random quotes?
2. Do I put each quotes I want in each line of the text file to seperate them?

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"Quote"-By A
"Quote02"-By B

[jsmorley]

https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?p=135661#p135661

[deXxterlab97]

https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?p=135661#p135661

how does one make 2 lines of quotes? all i see is each quote is one line only

[jsmorley]

how does one make 2 lines of quotes? all i see is each quote is one line only

The default for QuotePlugin is that it uses carriage return / linefeed as the separator, the usual intent is to have one random line of the text file be retrieved on each update. If you don't want that, you will need to do two things:

1) Change the Separator option on the measure to be something else. Perhaps something like ||, something that won't ever appear in the body of the text.

2) In your text file, add that new separator at the end of each segment you want to use as a distinct item.

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Item 1 is text that consists
of more than one line||
Item 2 is also text that consists of
more than one line||

[deXxterlab97]

The default for QuotePlugin is that it uses carriage return / linefeed as the separator, the usual intent is to have one random line of the text file be retrieved on each update. If you don't want that, you will need to do two things:

1) Change the Separator option on the measure to be something else. Perhaps something like ||, something that won't ever appear in the body of the text.

2) In your text file, add that new separator at the end of each segment you want to use as a distinct item.

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Item 1 is text that consists
of more than one line||
Item 2 is also text that consists of
more than one line||

so it would be

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Separator = ||

or

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Separator = "||"

[jsmorley]

so it would be

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Separator = ||

or

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Separator = "||"

Separator=||

Don't use pointless whitespace in options.

However any of them will work. The quotes are not needed, but won't hurt.

[deXxterlab97]

Separator=||

Don't use pointless whitespace in options.

However any of them will work. The quotes are not needed, but won't hurt.

it works but all of the quotes apart from the first line creates a leading empty line

Quote file

"After 5 years you're still Max Caulfield" - Chloe Price/
"Boo yaa! Get it? Boo ya? Like I'm a scary punk ghost." - Chloe Price/
"Max, I'm in a nightmare and I can't wake up, unless I put myself to sleep." - Kate Marsh/
"I wish I could stay in this moment forever. I guess I actually can now, but then it wouldn’t be a moment." - Max Caulfield/
"Max, never Maxine" - Max Caulfield/

Code file

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
DynamicWindowSize=1

[Variables]
FC=255,255,255
FS=25
FF="Dudu Calligraphy"

[MeasureQuotes]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=QuotePlugin
PathName=#CURRENTPATH#quotes.txt
UpdateDivider=60
Separator="/"

[MeterT]
Meter=String
MeasureName=MeasureQuotes
W=700
ClipString=2
FontFace=#FF#
FontColor=#FC#
FontSize=#FS#
AntiAlias=1
SolidColor=0,0,0,100

[jsmorley]

it works but all of the quotes apart from the first line creates a leading empty line

Quote file


Code file

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
DynamicWindowSize=1

[Variables]
FC=255,255,255
FS=25
FF="Dudu Calligraphy"

[MeasureQuotes]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=QuotePlugin
PathName=#CURRENTPATH#quotes.txt
UpdateDivider=60
Separator="/"

[MeterT]
Meter=String
MeasureName=MeasureQuotes
W=700
ClipString=2
FontFace=#FF#
FontColor=#FC#
FontSize=#FS#
AntiAlias=1
SolidColor=0,0,0,100

Try this:

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[MeasureQuotes]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=QuotePlugin
PathName=#CURRENTPATH#Test.txt
UpdateDivider=60
Separator=/
RegexpSubstitute=1
Substitute="^\r\n":""

The issue is that when we use "/" as the separator, that is fine, but the items actually end with "/\r\n" or a "/" followed by a carriage return, linefeed. We don't capture the separator, in this case the "/", but we do the carriage return, linefeed. So we need to substitute that off at the beginning of each entry before we use it.

I tried setting Separator=/#CRLF# but that doesn't seem to work. Not sure why, as it feels like it should, but the Substitute will accomplish what we want.

[jsmorley]

By the way, I don't exactly follow why you are going this route, since all your examples are on one line, and you are using ClipString=2 to force wrapping where you want it anyway, but so be it...

[deXxterlab97]

By the way, I don't exactly follow why you are going this route, since all your examples are on one line, and you are using ClipString=2 to force wrapping where you want it anyway, but so be it...

Different font size and text makes it larger than one line