Hide an active skin and toggle it

[Nilvarno]

Hi everyone. I have a fullscreen skin that i use like a game's dashboard which seems to be quite heavy to load and unload (the button that opens it load that skin from 0), so i was thinking to make it hidden so the skin would anyway stay loaded and possibli make it faster. How do i do that? I have to set the whole skin as hidden and ofc the button that loads it no has to toggle the hidden status. Thank you very much for your time and happy summer!

[balala]

I have a fullscreen skin that i use like a game's dashboard which seems to be quite heavy to load and unload (the button that opens it load that skin from 0), so i was thinking to make it hidden so the skin would anyway stay loaded and possibli make it faster. How do i do that? I have to set the whole skin as hidden and ofc the button that loads it no has to toggle the hidden status.

If a skin is hidden it still runs, but there are no visible elements on the screen. There is no way to get it back by clicking somethin gon that skin, because it is completely hidden. You can show it for instance by clicking something on another skin. Hiding a skin is much easier, because with visible elements on the screen you can easily add a button to hide the skin.
So to create a button onto another skin to show / hide your skin, create a new config and add the following code to the newly created skin:

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[MeterToggleSkin]
Meter=Image
SolidColor=255,240,0
X=0
Y=0
W=25
H=15
LeftMouseUpAction=[!ToggleFade "Config"]

This button will be a simple yellow rectangle. If it does work as intended, the button can easily by modified later. Config is the config of the skin you'd like to hide / show, when clicking the button (the yellow rectangle).
In order this button to work, you have to have the appropriate skin activated. If it is not, the button won't work.
Does this work?

[Nilvarno]

i'm sorry i didn't express myself very well, what you said is actually what i already sat up, another skin has the button to load/unload the other one. the code you gave ofc is what i needed, but is there a way to hide the other skin in question instead io adding hidden=1 to everything? thank you balala, it's always you who enlight me xD

[CodeCode]

I think when using !ToggleConfig the Hidden=1 are not necessary. You are toggling the entire skin which is the 'config'.

[balala]

but is there a way to hide the other skin in question instead io adding hidden=1 to everything?

Let's clarify first a thing: hiding a skin is not the same as hiding every meter of the skin. Adding a Hidden=1 option to all meters of the skin hides all those meters, but doesn't hide the skin itself, even if there nothing remains visible (however not even this is not always true) is still not hidden. Otherwise you can't hide the skin by adding the Hidden=1 option for instance to the [Rainmeter] section, because it doesn't work there.
To get the skin hidden from the beginning, add the following option to the [Rainmeter] section of the skin you'd like to hide: OnRefreshAction=[!Hide] or OnRefreshAction=[!HideFade] (it's entirely up to you which of these two do you prefere).

[balala]

I think when using !ToggleConfig the Hidden=1 are not necessary.

!ToggleConfig and the Hidden=1 option do two different things: !ToggleConfig activates / deactivates a skin (not just hides / shows it), while the Hidden=1 option hides the meter where it is used. Hidden=1 doesn't deactivates a skin, is not even related to skin, but to meters.

You are toggling the entire skin which is the 'config'.

Note that config and skin are two different notions:

• The config is in fact the folder where the skin's .ini file resides.
• The skin is the .ini file itself.

[Nilvarno]

It works! And it's considerably faster and smooth. Thank you very much, as always!

[balala]

It works! And it's considerably faster and smooth. Thank you very much, as always!

If you are talking about my reply, I'm glad. And you're welcome...