Using Zune with Rainmeter. Utilising the mediakey plugin.

[FarmerMayhem]

I'll start off by saying I'm quite new to rainmeter and thusfar have very little knowledge on creating skins.
I've read threads saying how the mediakey plugin can be utilised to make a skin that would allow the user to control zune software. Can anyone please give me some idea of how I might go about making a skin to use that function.
I'm just looking for a very simple skin; just one that would display play, pause, stop, next and previous buttons. Possibly also forward, rewind and volume controls if that was possible.
Preferably the skin would just be these buttons against a transparant background.
Any ideas?

[dragonmage]

http://www.rainmeter.net/cms/Rainmeter101

is a good place to start learning.

[Aesop]

There are some example skins in this thread: http://rainmeter.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=4868&start=0&hilit=zune

[poiru]

Here is an example skin for MediaKey.dll:

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[Rainmeter]
Author=poiru
AppVersion=1002000
Update=1000
BackgroundMode=1
MouseActionCursor=0

[Metadata]
Name=MediaKey Example
Description=MediaKey Example
Version=1.0.0
License=Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0

[MeasureKey]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=MediaKey.dll

[Container]
Meter=IMAGE
MeterStyle=sTitleArea
X=0
Y=0
W=120
H=45
SolidColor=000000CC

[Prev]
Meter=STRING
X=5
Y=5r
FontFace=Trebuchet MS
FontSize=8
FontColor=FFFFFF99
Text=PREV
AntiAlias=1
MouseActionCursor=1
LeftMouseUpAction=!RainmeterPluginBang "MeasureKey PrevTrack"

[Play]
Meter=STRING
X=35r
Y=0r
FontFace=Trebuchet MS
FontSize=8
FontColor=FFFFFF99
Text=PLAY
AntiAlias=1
MouseActionCursor=1
LeftMouseUpAction=!RainmeterPluginBang "MeasureKey PlayPause"

[Next]
Meter=STRING
X=35r
Y=0r
FontFace=Trebuchet MS
FontSize=8
FontColor=FFFFFF99
Text=NEXT
AntiAlias=1
MouseActionCursor=1
LeftMouseUpAction=!RainmeterPluginBang "MeasureKey NextTrack"

[VolDown]
Meter=STRING
X=5
Y=20r
FontFace=Trebuchet MS
FontSize=8
FontColor=FFFFFF99
Text=VOL-
AntiAlias=1
MouseActionCursor=1
LeftMouseUpAction=!RainmeterPluginBang "MeasureKey VolumeDown"

[Mute]
Meter=STRING
X=35r
Y=0r
FontFace=Trebuchet MS
FontSize=8
FontColor=FFFFFF99
Text=MUTE
AntiAlias=1
MouseActionCursor=1
LeftMouseUpAction=!RainmeterPluginBang "MeasureKey VolumeMute"

[VolUp]
Meter=STRING
X=35r
Y=0r
FontFace=Trebuchet MS
FontSize=8
FontColor=FFFFFF99
Text=VOL+
AntiAlias=1
MouseActionCursor=1
LeftMouseUpAction=!RainmeterPluginBang "MeasureKey VolumeUp"