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Desktop Movement and Honeycomb Mouseover

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Aleckoco
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Desktop Movement and Honeycomb Mouseover

Post by Aleckoco »

Hi, I see this desktop and I want to recreate this (https://twitter.com/SimGuruGeorge/status/830123976806457344) but in my own style but I don't know what is the name of the movement plugin/skin/design and I don't know how to make the honeycomb icon mouseover effect, can you help me?

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balala
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Re: Desktop Movement and Honeycomb Mouseover

Post by balala »

Aleckoco wrote:Hi, I see this desktop and I want to recreate this (https://twitter.com/SimGuruGeorge/status/830123976806457344) but in my own style but I don't know what is the name of the movement plugin/skin/design and I don't know how to make the honeycomb icon mouseover effect, can you help me?
Probably yes, but I'm not very sure what is your question: as you said in the subject of your post, there probably are used elements of the Honeycomb skin suite. Do you have this skin installed?
If not, you can find it here: https://apiium.deviantart.com/art/Honeycomb-467211707
On the other hand, about the mouseover effect, that could be done with an ImageTint option, added to the appropriate Image meter (which shows the icon). If you could identify the appropriate Image meter, add to it the following option: ImageTint=150,150,150,150. Then add to the same meter, the following options:

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MouseOverAction=[!SetOption #CURRENTSECTION# ImageTint "255,255,255"][!UpdateMeter "#CURRENTSECTION#"][!Redraw]
MouseLeveAction=[!SetOption #CURRENTSECTION# ImageTint "150,150,150,150"][!UpdateMeter "#CURRENTSECTION#"][!Redraw]
As you can see I used the same values in both the ImageTint option and on the !setOption bang of the MouseLeveAction option. You can change this value, just take care to use the same value in both options. Try different values, to get the best one, which you like most.
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Mor3bane
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Re: Desktop Movement and Honeycomb Mouseover

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Rainmeter does not have a reasonable way of tracking the movement of the mouse pointer.

Someone once said particle physics might be simpler :vomit:

That said, one method, which would incur a lot of lag between iterations would be to create a series of invisible bars across the desktop. Each one would load a horizontally different image based on the root image.
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