Help with custom slideshow

[Flynnw]

Hello everyone, i don't know if i have come to right place, i am new to this so excuse my being a noob.

Basically i want to make a skin that displays a small icon or letter that's preferably movable and small enough to fit inside the windows taskbar.

And i want to be able to bind a key that goes to the next icon or letter/number, on a predefined sequence.

Also if possible i want it to display a tiny number on its corner referencing it's order ( but it's fine since that can be part of the icon itself ).

Kinda like this : ( this is just a photoshopped image ) :

[mak_kawa]

Hi Flynnw

You can achieve it using Brian's HotKey plugin. Attached is the image of my sample skin code.

test.gif

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
BackgroundMode=2
SolidColor=128,128,128,192

[Variables]
Num=0

[measureHotKey]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=HotKey
HotKey=Shift 0
KeyUpAction=[!SetVariable Num (#Num#+1)][!UpdateMeter meterNum][!Redraw]
DynamicVariables=1

[meterShape]
Meter=Shape
X=0
Y=0
Shape=Ellipse 12,12,12 | Fill Color 255,255,255,192

[meterArrow]
Meter=Image
ImageName=arrow.png
X=5
Y=5
W=15
H=15

[meterNum]
Meter=String
FontSize=7
FontColor=0,0,255,192
StringStyle=Bold
X=22
Y=17
Text=#Num#
DynamicVariables=1

In this sample code, hot key action is arbitrarily set to "Shift+0". And of course, the position option of the skin have to set to "stay topmost" in skin management dialog.

Hope I am not misunderstanding your point.

[mak_kawa]

And... I wonder what is the relation between this and "custom slideshow"??

[balala]

Attached is the image of my sample skin code.

What this skin seems have missed, is the icon (image) change. As far as i understood, the image should also change, whenever the number is changing:

And i want to be able to bind a key that goes to the next icon or letter/number, on a predefined sequence.

Am I right?
If I am, You should add one more Calc measure to mak_kawa's code, something like the following one:

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[MeasureImage]
Measure=Calc
Formula=#Num#
RegExpSubstitute=1
Substitute="^(.*)$":"#@#Image\1.png"
DynamicVariables=1

The above measure substitutes the number given by the #Num# variable with the path of some images placed into the @Resources\Images\ folder, named with the appropriate numbers and having all .png extensions. So the images should be @Resources\Images\0.png, @Resources\Images\1.png and so on. Obviously if needed, the path can be changed as you want / need.
Now you should use this measure into an Image meter. For instance, replace the ImageName option of the [meterArrow] meter with an MeasureName=MeasureImage option. Or if you want to keep the [meterArrow] meter as it is, add a new Image meter, using the same MeasureName=MeasureImage option.
Have you got it working? If you have, further improvements are still needed, but first let's see if this is working and is what you need for.

[Flynnw]

And... I wonder what is the relation between this and "custom slideshow"??

Sorry i was not very precise, i meant that the images displayed also change when i click

[Flynnw]

What this skin seems have missed, is the icon (image) change. As far as i understood, the image should also change, whenever the number is changing:

Am I right?

Yes you are right, that is what i wanted to do, thanks a lot.

I'm still having problems with making it work, the images don't show up, it just shows a grey empty circle with a counter right next to it.
My goal is to be able to display any list of images i want, with a fixed size layout for the whole sequence.
also i want the counter to preferably be inside the image circle itself and not create a grey background beside it,

and another minor issue is there is a slight delay in switching to the next frame, if i click twice on the key too fast it doesn't switch.

Here is my code, where did i go wrong?

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
BackgroundMode=2
SolidColor=128,128,128,192

[Variables]
Num=0

[measureHotKey]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=HotKey
HotKey=CapsLock
KeyUpAction=[!SetVariable Num (#Num#+1)][!UpdateMeter meterNum][!Redraw]
DynamicVariables=1

[meterShape]
Meter=Shape
X=0
Y=0
Shape=Ellipse 12,12,12 | Fill Color 255,255,255,192

[meterArrow]
Meter=Image
MeasureName=MeasureImage
X=5
Y=5
W=15
H=15

[meterNum]
Meter=String
FontSize=7
FontColor=0,0,255,192
StringStyle=Bold
X=22
Y=17
Text=#Num#
DynamicVariables=1

[MeasureImage]
Measure=Calc
Formula=#Num#
RegExpSubstitute=1
Substitute="^(.*)$":"#D:\THerun#Image\1.png"
DynamicVariables=1

[balala]

I'm still having problems with making it work, the images don't show up, it just shows a grey empty circle with a counter right next to it.

There probably is a small mistake into the Substitute option of the [MeasureImage] measure. I suppose the path of the images is D:\#THerun#ImageXX.png, where the #THerun# variable might have different values and XX are the appropriate numbers. If so, the # character is in a wrong place. Move it to the proper place: Substitute="^(.*)$":"D:\#THerun#Image\1.png".
Have this fixed the issue?
As said further improvements still needed, but first let's see if the above fixes the issue. If it does, I'll post how to fix the delay problem.

[Flynnw]

There probably is a small mistake into the Substitute option of the [MeasureImage] measure. I suppose the path of the images is D:\#THerun#ImageXX.png, where the #THerun# variable might have different values and XX are the appropriate numbers. If so, the # character is in a wrong place. Move it to the proper place: Substitute="^(.*)$":"D:\#THerun#Image\1.png".
Have this fixed the issue?
As said further improvements still needed, but first let's see if the above fixes the issue. If it does, I'll post how to fix the delay problem.

I still don't know where i went wrong, so i changed the folder's name to "images" and stuck with the original code.

So now the images are named 1,2,3,4 and they are in D:\Images.

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
BackgroundMode=2
SolidColor=128,128,128,192

[Variables]
Num=0

[measureHotKey]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=HotKey
HotKey=CapsLock
KeyUpAction=[!SetVariable Num (#Num#+1)][!UpdateMeter meterNum][!Redraw]
DynamicVariables=1

[meterShape]
Meter=Shape
X=0
Y=0
Shape=Ellipse 12,12,12 | Fill Color 255,255,255,192

[meterArrow]
Meter=Image
MeasureName=MeasureImage
X=5
Y=5
W=15
H=15

[meterNum]
Meter=String
FontSize=7
FontColor=0,0,255,192
StringStyle=Bold
X=22
Y=17
Text=#Num#
DynamicVariables=1

[MeasureImage]
Measure=Calc
Formula=#Num#
RegExpSubstitute=1
Substitute="^(.*)$":"D:\THerun\#D#Image\1.png"
DynamicVariables=1

[balala]

I still don't know where i went wrong, so i changed the folder's name to "images" and stuck with the original code.

So now the images are named 1,2,3,4 and they are in D:\Images.

Firstly: since the Num variable is initialized to 0, name the images as 0, 1, 2 and 3, instead of 1, 2, 3 and 4. Make sure their format is .png. If not, replace the .png extension into the Substitute option of the [MeasureImage] measure with the appropriate extension.
Secondly: if those images are placed into the D:\Images folder, the Substitute option should reflect this. Probably it should be Substitute="^(.*)$":"D:\Images\\1.png". Note the double backslash after the Images folder name.
Thirdly: not sure what the D variable is. I can't identify it into your code. Or just me have omitted it?

If still can't get it to properly work, please pack the whole config (including the images) and upload the package. Just to can check it.

[Flynnw]

Thanks Balala it works !

sorry i think i messed it up there is no D variable that's just me being a noob, again sorry

so now the issues are the images are displayed In the grey circle too small, i want the display to be the pure images non formatted whatsoever.

and of course there is the issue with the delay but that's not too serious for now.