Making an entire skin clickable with SolidColor=0,0,0,1

[Mor3bane]

Hello,

I thought we could set SolidColor in the [Rainmeter] section?

But it is not working for me, is there an prescribed way?

[mak_kawa]

Hi Mor3bane

This works well for me.

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
BackgroundMode=2
SolidColor=0,0,0,1
LeftMouseUpAction=[!Log Left-clicked!]
RightMouseUpAction=[!Log Right-clicked!]

So, my guess is... you are missing BackgroundMode=2 to fill skin background with SolidColor??

BTW, contrary to my expectation, mouse cursor doesn't change when hover on the skin. I am not sure why.

[Mor3bane]

Hi Mor3bane

This works well for me.

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
BackgroundMode=2
SolidColor=0,0,0,1
LeftMouseUpAction=[!Log Left-clicked!]
RightMouseUpAction=[!Log Right-clicked!]

So, my guess is... you are missing BackgroundMode=2 to fill skin background with SolidColor??

BTW, contrary to my expectation, mouse cursor doesn't change when hover on the skin. I am not sure why.

BackgroundMode=2 seems to have done the trick. No mouse over pointer but thats fine.

Thank mak_kawa

[Mor3bane]

Hey on a further, can the size of the click area be set - as in smaller than the total skin size?

[jsmorley]

Hey on a further, can the size of the click area be set - as in smaller than the total skin size?

Not in the [Rainmeter] section of the skin. You would have to define a meter.

[Mor3bane]

Not in the [Rainmeter] section of the skin. You would have to define a meter.

Yep, found that out in the manual - or didn't find what i was looking for - however, I found a work around that sits fine for now.

[balala]

BackgroundMode=2 seems to have done the trick.

The explanation why this option has to be added is that the default value fo BackgroundMode is 1 (which means Transparent background), not 2, so if you want to set a solid background color, you have to add explicitely the BackgroundMode=2 option to the [Rainmeter] section.

[Mor3bane]

I wound up using jsmorley's idea, and created an overlay image meter for my click surface. Now the size of the click area is not unnecessarily too large - which prevented clicking on adjacent skins.

Happy, happy, joy, joy.