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Meters not being drawn on screen after adding to file

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I'm new to this tool, and am having some difficulty in creating a weather skin. I am using some code from the WXDataWeather skin by JSMorley, and using another skin, Elegancy Gray from HipHopium as inspiration for formatting and Icons. Everything was good, until I reched a point where no more meters will show up in the skin. Not sure what would cause this to happen. Also, a side note: I'm having a bit of an issue with positioning; I'm using an arrow font to show wind direction, but not sure I have positioned it correctly, and it seems to be causing trouble with the positions of elements around it, which may be the reason I can't get the whole wind string to display.

Any help I can get with this would be very much appreciated. I have included a link to download the .rmskin below. :)

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AkJkQjo_Cl-FwkcEhYGNTSpsyLGv
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Re: Meters not being drawn on screen after adding to file

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The issue is the SkinWidth and SkinHeight here:

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
SkinWidth=251
SkinHeight=1000
DynamicWindowSize=1
AccurateText=1
Adjust those values as needed...
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Re: Meters not being drawn on screen after adding to file

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try

ImageName=#@#Icons\Sunrise.png

in the meter "MeterSunriseIcon"

(sorry for being short, but i'm in a hurry)
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Re: Meters not being drawn on screen after adding to file

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jsmorley wrote:The issue is the SkinWidth and SkinHeight here:

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
SkinWidth=251
SkinHeight=1000
DynamicWindowSize=1
AccurateText=1
Adjust those values as needed...
I tried editing the skin height, and that didn't seem to help. I then added the dynamic window size which also didn't seem to do anything in this case. Not sure if I should have the dynamic window size there if the skin width and height are set, seems like it wouldn't be necessary.
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Re: Meters not being drawn on screen after adding to file

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ikarus1969 wrote:try

ImageName=#@#Icons\Sunrise.png

in the meter "MeterSunriseIcon"

(sorry for being short, but i'm in a hurry)

Thank you sooooo much! I changed the ImagePath to ImageName, and it worked!!! Now the icon appears as it should. :)
Very very much appreciate the response!
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Glas to Help!
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Oh that Smartphone! Top Smalltalk Charakters to Type and top Big Fingers :D
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ikarus1969 wrote:Oh that Smartphone! Top Smalltalk Charakters to Type and top Big Fingers :D
Spell Check also failed you... "Glas"? :lol:
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Ok, last try: too small characters and too big fingers :D
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Re: Meters not being drawn on screen after adding to file

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nosanctuary wrote:Thank you sooooo much! I changed the ImagePath to ImageName, and it worked!!! Now the icon appears as it should. :)
Very very much appreciate the response!
Okay, so here's a screenshot of the current skin:
RMScreen.png
As you can see, the next line is now showing. :17good
However, two lines above, the Wind Direction arrow seems to move around a bit - and I'm not sure how to fix that.
Also, and it may be related - instead of 12 mph, it should be saying Wind 12 mph. Part of it is being cut off. I did try adding a line for the width, but that didn't seem to help. That's what makes me think it might be due to the arrow, or alignment.
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