Hello!
Does Rainmeter have the ability to notify when a new version is available?
Also, does it have the ability to notify when any of the installed/loaded skins has a new version available?
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Update Availabilty Question
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Re: Update Availabilty Question
Sometimes in past I got messages about this. I suppose (and a developer should confirm or not) it warns when bigger updates are available (as said, I'm not sure about this).MourningStar wrote: ↑February 2nd, 2020, 5:56 pm Does Rainmeter have the ability to notify when a new version is available?
Definitely not. No way Rainmeter to check the available versions of the skins.MourningStar wrote: ↑February 2nd, 2020, 5:56 pm Also, does it have the ability to notify when any of the installed/loaded skins has a new version available?
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Re: Update Availabilty Question
Yes, it will notify you when a more recent final version is available. It won't do any notifications on changes in beta versions.
As to skins, certainly not. Rainmeter has no way to know what skins are out there, where they are hosted, and what versions they are. A skin author could build something like that into their individual skin, and I think a couple of folks have, but Rainmeter itself has no visibility into the skins written using it.
As to skins, certainly not. Rainmeter has no way to know what skins are out there, where they are hosted, and what versions they are. A skin author could build something like that into their individual skin, and I think a couple of folks have, but Rainmeter itself has no visibility into the skins written using it.
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Re: Update Availabilty Question
Good to be known.
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Re: Update Availabilty Question
To be more specific, the way it works is:
If you are installing a fresh copy of Rainmeter on your system, and there is a newer version available, a Windows "toaster" notification will pop up the first time it is started, warning you that you have an older version. This will only happen once, the first time you start it.
After that, or if you already had Rainmeter installed, it is less in your face, and will simply always have a notification at the top of the Rainmeter context menu, alerting you that a newer version is available.
This is controlled by an entry in the Rainmeter.data file in ..AppData\Roaming\Rainmeter.
This notification can be turned off if desired, in the Rainmeter Settings.
If you are installing a fresh copy of Rainmeter on your system, and there is a newer version available, a Windows "toaster" notification will pop up the first time it is started, warning you that you have an older version. This will only happen once, the first time you start it.
After that, or if you already had Rainmeter installed, it is less in your face, and will simply always have a notification at the top of the Rainmeter context menu, alerting you that a newer version is available.
This is controlled by an entry in the Rainmeter.data file in ..AppData\Roaming\Rainmeter.
This notification can be turned off if desired, in the Rainmeter Settings.
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Re: Update Availabilty Question
Yes, this is what I remembered it exists. Couldn't remember it is in the context menu, but I remembered somewhere such a notification does exists.
Right, with the Check for updates checkbox on the Settings tab.
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Re: Update Availabilty Question
Not sure if it helps, but you can subscribe to get an e-mail notification on new releases (this includes beta builds) on github using https://coderelease.io/
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Re: Update Availabilty Question
It's easy to implement an update notification as an author into a skin. I just use a webparser to a website where I store the current version number, then a calc measure to compare that number with the version number stored in the skin. If the number is higher than the other, it's as easy as triggering a !ShowMeter with the words "Update available!", with a LeftMouseUpAction to the URL to the download location.
You can store the variable in your skin's deviantart page description. It's easy.
You can store the variable in your skin's deviantart page description. It's easy.
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Re: Update Availabilty Question
Great - hope skinners follow-up on this.Cariboudjan wrote: ↑February 3rd, 2020, 7:05 am It's easy to implement an update notification as an author into a skin. I just use a webparser to a website where I store the current version number, then a calc measure to compare that number with the version number stored in the skin. If the number is higher than the other, it's as easy as triggering a !ShowMeter with the words "Update available!", with a LeftMouseUpAction to the URL to the download location.
You can store the variable in your skin's deviantart page description. It's easy.
Thx all for your input !