Adding Launchers to Gnometer

[Jan Waslander]

I have been looking for a sidebar, downloaded sevaral end deleted them not long after. Rainmeter is quite a discovery. It lookes very sophisticated. It 's a great design. Rainmeter is hardly known in the Netherlands where I live. I 'm surprised about that. I hope my English is not to poor since it 's not my native language. Allso I think it 's marvelous you can change the sourcecode. I tried this because I want to add a second Applications-2x7.ini bar. First I copied the file in the Documents Map and named it Applications-2x7 01.ini. But it did not appear in [RightClick on the bar] > Gnometer > Launcher > Applications. Then I deleted the file and edited the Applications-2x7.ini file. I copied the part beginning from Line2 to almost to the end. I renamed Line2 to Line3 and numbered the procedures following accordingly, presuming when executing the skin a third row of shortcuts should appear. But it didn 't. Then I searched this forum. I found no appropriate answer. Perhaps I interpreted it wrongly. If you could help me out I would appreciate it very much. Thank you in advance. Jan Waslander / Heerenveen / The Netherlands

[Alex2539]

When you add a new skin, make sure that you choose "Refresh All" from the Rainmeter tray icon in order to have it appear in the list.

[Jan Waslander]

.. ahh, thank you. It works. But it doesn 't solve my problem. Rainmmaker lets 's you choose out of several skins. So when you choose for let 's say skin A then you get skin A. And when you choose for skin B you get skin B. But I want skin A and B. I want to add a skin and not to replace a skin. When there is no possibility to add a skin I have to edit one skin in order to get more shortcuts. I 've tried that but it didn 't work out. But I 'll try again. And thank you very much for your answer.

[poiru]

.. ahh, thank you. It works. But it doesn 't solve my problem. Rainmmaker lets 's you choose out of several skins. So when you choose for let 's say skin A then you get skin A. And when you choose for skin B you get skin B. But I want skin A and B. I want to add a skin and not to replace a skin. When there is no possibility to add a skin I have to edit one skin in order to get more shortcuts. I 've tried that but it didn 't work out. But I 'll try again. And thank you very much for your answer.

Create another folder (e.g. Applications2).

[Jan Waslander]

Thanks for answering. I created a second folder applications2. Then [refresh skin]. Then I went to gnometer > launcher > applications. It shows applications 1x7, 2x7, 1x14 > the skins in the map d:\documents\rainmeter\skins\applications. And not the .ini files in the copy applications2 I made. When I change the name of the original applications map in applications1 Rainmeter says it cant 't find skins. As I look at it the only possibility to get more shortcuts is to edit the 2x7.ini in order to make a third bar with shortcuts. Then I could name it 3x7.ini. But even if I succeeded in doing so (and I don 't, I tried before as I described in my first post) then it is necessary that in the settings section a row of 21 shortcuts appears in stead of 14. Am I right or do I miss something?

[poiru]

Right-click the tray icon and select Refresh All.

[Jan Waslander]

Thank you very much Poiru! Now it works. I think you wrote a wonderful piece of software. Rainmeter is a valuable addition to my system. I enjoy it every day. Pehaps we 'll meet again

[Jan Waslander]

.. and here I am again I can 't make shortcuts 15..28 because the application section in the sections.ini only mentions shortcuts 1..14. I edited the 2x7.ini 2 (in map applications2) as follows:

[Launcher15]
Meter=IMAGE
MeterStyle=sIcon
ImageName=#launcher.App15icon#
LeftMouseUpAction=!Execute ["#launcher.App15path#"]
MouseActionCursor=1

and so on.

When I run/able this skin/program there are no icons visible which is logical because the launcher.App15icon variable has no value as well as the launcher.App15path variable has no value.

So how can I link the appropiate values to this variables?

I do not have the Rainmeter main program. Only the .exe file. Is it possible that the variables have to be declared first in the main program?

[Jan Waslander]

... Now I can link the paths and icons to shortcuts 15..28. I found the variables in the variables.inc (what 's in a name..). I still wonder how I can change this variables from the settings.ini window. It only knows the first 14 shortcuts. From 1 to 14 a program called ConfigTools.exe is executed. I looked for ConfigTools.ini in order to find the source code but I could not find it. Anyway. By the way; in my former post I used the word map(s). That 's dutch for folder. Thank you again.

[poiru]

What you need to do is open the launcher ini file and add the launcher.AppXXicon stuff to the [Variables] section.

E.g.

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[Variables]
launcher.App15icon=path/name.png
launcher.App15path=path/name.exe

... and so forth