space between skins

[death.crafter]

How do I know where the parent skin is in my custom tooltip skin approach, so I can position the latter next to the former, and even follow it as I drag the former around the screen (check the preview GIF)? Same principle here.
No need for a plugin, cause it's already there, and I said it earlier as well (well, not in terms of specifics, but anyway)...in schematics:

- in the 2nd config paste something along these lines:

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[SomeMeasure2]
...
OnUpdateAction=[!SetVariable Config2X [#CURRENTCONFIGX] "Config1"][!SetVariable Config2Y [#CURRENTCONFIGY] "Config1"][!SetVariable Config2W [#CURRENTCONFIGWIDTH] "Config1"][!SetVariable Config2H [#CURRENTCONFIGHEIGHT] "Config1"][!UpdateMeasure SomeMeasure1 "Config1"]
DynamicVariables=1

LMAO, I did it in custom context menu my self, how could I forget lol.

Yeah you win this time.

[Yincognito]

LMAO, I did it in custom context menu my self, how could I forget lol.

Precisely - that was what I was wondering as well...

Yeah you win this time.

Hopefully the OP would win as well, assuming he can figure out how to use those coordinates to reach his goal. Still think a Rainmeter-wide application of this is a bit overkill though.

[Judian81]

hey hello thanks for the responces.

i had found out a way to do what i wanted to have.

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
;DynamicWindowSize=1
AccurateText=1
Background=#CURRENTPATH#Theme\Background3.png
BackgroundMode=3

[Variables]
;making a border around the skin
paddingLeft=10
paddingTop=10
paddingRight=10
paddingBottom=10
;form height and width
formWidth=200
formHeight=200

;--------------------STYLE--------------------

[styleCenter]
FontColor=160,160,160,205
StringStyle=Bold
StringAlign=Center
FontFace=Trebuchet MS
FontSize=10
AntiAlias=1
StringCase=None
StringEffect=Shadow
FontEffectColor=0,0,0,50

;--------------------METER--------------------

[meterBG]
Meter=Shape
Shape=Rectangle 1,1,#formWidth#,#formHeight#,5 | Fill Color 0,0,0,130 | StrokeWidth 0.5 | Extend StrokeAlpha
StrokeAlpha=Stroke Color 100,100,100,255
Meter=Shape2
Shape2=Rectangle 2,2,(#formWidth#-2),34,5 | Fill Color 0,0,0,130 | StrokeWidth 0.5 | Extend StrokeAlpha2
StrokeAlpha2=Stroke Color 10,9,9,255
Padding=#paddingLeft#,#paddingTop#,#paddingRight#,#paddingBottom#

[meterTitle]
Meter=String
MeterStyle=styleCenter
Y=(12+#paddingTop#)
X=(100+#paddingLeft#)
W=(200+#paddingLeft#+#paddingRight#)
H=22
Text="Skin of Shapes"

this effect is what i wanted to create. one day i want to develope a border arround the skin. like a branch. i am more likely to create code then real grapic art but oke.

[death.crafter]

this effect is what i wanted to create. one day i want to develope a border arround the skin. like a branch. i am more likely to create code then real grapic art but oke.

Wait what?

I wonder what you actually want or wanted to do?

[Yincognito]

Wait what?

I wonder what you actually want or wanted to do?

Well, at least I won, right?

[Yincognito]

hey hello thanks for the responces.
[...]
i had found out a way to do what i wanted to have.
this effect is what i wanted to create. one day i want to develope a border arround the skin. like a branch. i am more likely to create code then real grapic art but oke.

Excellent - I had a feeling you were after the padding thing. Just so you know, that padding isn't really required, you could have created a smaller rectangle inside of a larger one, with the difference acting like a padding, since skins will (usually) "snap to the edges" of one another.

[Judian81]

Excellent - I had a feeling you were after the padding thing. Just so you know, that padding isn't really required, you could have created a smaller rectangle inside of a larger one, with the difference acting like a padding, since skins will (usually) "snap to the edges" of one another.

thanks for the compliments.
i do not realy understand what you want to tell me. the thing is the background is always the total skin right?
so when i use a skin from somebody else. and want to make a border around it. i have to move all the information more to the right.

if have made an example skin so you can see.

padding.png

[Yincognito]

thanks for the compliments.
i do not realy understand what you want to tell me. the thing is the background is always the total skin right?
so when i use a skin from somebody else. and want to make a border around it. i have to move all the information more to the right.

if have made an example skin so you can see.

padding.png

That's true. For an already made skin, the padding approach doesn't require positional changes indeed, but for a skin you just started to make, the nested rectangles approach is equally valid.

Sorry for the confusion - guess I'm not really an adept of modifying other skins to do what I want, I prefer to start from scratch with my own. But that's just me, it's by no means wrong or anything like that, so feel free to do so. Me, I find it much easier and quicker to do the other way.

[Judian81]

i have found out a new way to get a border around a skin.
this way you do not have to reorganise anything.
it is transparent so it is click through. that is cool.
it is a little bit messy. but ok.

just a border.png

just a border around.png

removed skin. updated the skin in future post

[Yincognito]

i have found out a new way to get a border around a skin.
this way you do not have to reorganise anything.
it is transparent so it is click through. that is cool.
it is a little bit messy. but ok.

just a border.png

just a border around.png

Border_v0.1.rmskin

Well, that's the same idea I was trying to convey earlier, with making a background shape (which can also be filled with a transparent color) larger than your actual "used area" in the skin. So, if you try any of these on an already made skin, you'd still have to add some "padding" value to the elements in that skin in order to be positioned within the smaller, inside "form area" you envisioned:

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
@include=#CURRENTPATH#style.inc
ContextTitle="Edit Style"
ContextAction=["#CURRENTPATH#style.inc"]

;--------------------VARIABLE----------------

[Variables]
;form height and width
formWidth=210
formHeight=75

;--------------------MEASURE----------------

;--------------------METER--------------------

; [coolShape2]
; Meter=Shape
; Shape=Rectangle 0,0,300,300 | Fill Color 0,255,0,255 | Stroke Color 0,0,0,255
; SolidColor=255,0,0,255
; Padding=#paddingLeft#,#paddingTop#,#paddingRight#,#paddingBottom#

[coolImage2]
Meter=Image
ImageName=#CURRENTPATH#background3.png
X=0
Y=0
W=((#formWidth#*#formScale#)+#paddingleft#+#paddingright#)
H=((#formHeight#*#formScale#)+#paddingTop#+#paddingbottom#)

[coolString2]
Meter=String
FontColor=255,255,255,255
FontFace=Tahoma
FontSize=16
AntiAlias=1
Text=Cool String

So, you still have to "reorganize" stuff by adding some "padding" value to skin elements either way, whether it's an already made or a new skin.