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Creating Rainmeter Notification Application

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Re: Creating Rainmeter Notification Application

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mobileqa wrote:Right Skin wasn't refreshed. When using URL's and regular expressions , is there a way to change the frequency that Rainmeter Fetch the Data.
Yes, that is what UpdateRate is for. You put that on the parent WebParser measure. It is multiplied times the Update value in [Rainmeter] and that is how often it will go to the site to retrieve data. The default is 600, so if Update=1000, which is 1 second, then that is 600 seconds, or 10 minutes. You can set it to whatever you need.

https://docs.rainmeter.net/manual/measures/webparser/#UpdateRate
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Re: Creating Rainmeter Notification Application

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Is there a way to Hide the Skin on reboot of laptop each time it's rebooted?
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Re: Creating Rainmeter Notification Application

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mobileqa wrote:Is there a way to Hide the Skin on reboot of laptop each time it's rebooted?
[Rainmeter]
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OnRefreshAction=[!Hide]
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Re: Creating Rainmeter Notification Application

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I have that below, What I want to happen is when we deploy the app to multiple pc's i want to load the skin , but I don't want it to show initially.

[Rainmeter]
; This section contains general settings that can be used to change how Rainmeter behaves.
Update=1000
;Background=Background.png
; #@# is equal to Rainmeter\Skins\illustro\@Resources
BackgroundMode=2
;BackgroundMargins=0,34,0,14
;SolidColor=131,134,137
SolidColor=131,134,137
DynamicWindowSize=1
AccurateText=1
OnRefreshAction=[!Hide]
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Re: Creating Rainmeter Notification Application

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mobileqa wrote:I have that below, What I want to happen is when we deploy the app to multiple pc's i want to load the skin , but I don't want it to show initially.

[Rainmeter]
; This section contains general settings that can be used to change how Rainmeter behaves.
Update=1000
;Background=Background.png
; #@# is equal to Rainmeter\Skins\illustro\@Resources
BackgroundMode=2
;BackgroundMargins=0,34,0,14
;SolidColor=131,134,137
SolidColor=131,134,137
DynamicWindowSize=1
AccurateText=1
OnRefreshAction=[!Hide]
It won't, assuming that whatever test you are doing to "unhide" it doesn't "pass" when the skin is first loaded.
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Re: Creating Rainmeter Notification Application

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This the test
- Create Rainmeter skin .RMSKIN file based on current configs we have been talking about
- Email package to another user
- User click on the .rmskin to install and load the skin

Expected Results: The skin will load in background
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Re: Creating Rainmeter Notification Application

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Got it to working I removed the brackets around !Hide
OnRefreshAction=!Hide
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Re: Creating Rainmeter Notification Application

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mobileqa wrote:Got it to working I removed the brackets around !Hide
OnRefreshAction=!Hide
Ok, but had to be something else...

OnRefreshAction=!Hide
OnRefreshAction=[!Hide]

Both work exactly the same. The [brackets] are used to separate when you have multiple bangs on one action option, so not strictly needed in this case, but can't possibly cause it to not work.
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Re: Creating Rainmeter Notification Application

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Another Question
How do I get my skin to remain in the Top Right hand corner of the Skin. Is there a setting to put under [Rainmeter] ?
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Re: Creating Rainmeter Notification Application

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Does anyone have information on performing 508 testing on Rainmeter applications. I'm currently trying to run my rainmeter skin through 508 compliance testing , and the tools JAWS ;which we use for testing doesn't detect the rainmeter skin as a windows application thats compatible with 508 testing.