Read a text file into a meter?

[ConcreteVitamin]

Hi,

This light-weight skin perfectly suits my needs... except that it cannot properly display Chinese characters stored inside a UTF-8-coded text file.

How can I get around with this? Please help.

Thanks!

[jsmorley]

I have updated the .rmskin in the first of my posts in this thread:

http://rainmeter.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=43296#p43296

The old version used some deprecated functions in Lua, that while they would work with everything formatted in ANSI, are not supported when Unicode is used in Lua.

Attention should be paid to how the various files are encoded. The .lua is Unicode / UTF-16 Little Endian, and the external text file it reads (Test.txt) is encoded as UTF-8.

Why this is so is explained here: http://rainmeter.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=91224#p91224

[jsmorley]

Made a couple of other minor tweaks. Get the latest 2.0 version at:

http://rainmeter.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=43296#p43296

[mnjk78lgm]

Hi, was wondering how to make the output text be able to go lower then halfway down the monitor if you only have 1 line of text, also to center text, because im making it read an updating file that tells me what song is playing on youtube and i want it centered in this music circle.

[jsmorley]

Hi, was wondering how to make the output text be able to go lower then halfway down the monitor if you only have 1 line of text

I don't understand the question.

[mnjk78lgm]

I don't understand the question.

when i drag the text on my monitor the text doesn't go below a specific point

[jsmorley]

Sorry, still don't understand the question.

[mnjk78lgm]

Sorry, still don't understand the question.

never mind, i had to change H=500 to H=100 to be able to move the text lower.
sorry I couldn't really describe it better then how i did, but i did fix the problem so its fine

[jsmorley]

Good deal...

[CMDR_Evolution]

Hello and thank you for the great tool.

I've used it to create myself a log file reader but when the lines exceed the room available in the window, they can no longer be seen.

Is there a way to make the screen show the bottom of the log, rather than the top please?

Many thanks