Yincognito wrote: ↑March 26th, 2020, 11:56 am
Eclectic tech already provided a very nice solution for this ...
So it does, but even if I did stumble on his skin before I posted the above it was only full screen mode, just like the other skin I originally posted about. Later when he posted his updated version it was more in line with what I'm looking for.
Yincognito wrote: ↑March 26th, 2020, 11:56 am... but I wonder why would one need to create a skin for this, since using something like
[!Log #CURRENTCONFIGX#] on, say, a mouse click, would get that skin's X on the monitor (likewise, this can be done for individual meters, just by slightly modifying the bang).
I was not aware of that. On the other hand, I am pretty sure there is a lot of things I have not yet found out about Rainmeter !
Then again, it wouldn't exactly do what I was looking for though.
My thought was having a 'ruler dashboard' (so to speak) with 2 movable X-axis lines and 2 Y-axis lines, plop the skin I am working on ontop of it. Then using the moveable axis lines to find out exact positions between items to get it all looking somewhat aligned and such. This relating to the new Icon Dock I'm working on, which will have drop down menu's and, for now, giving me a bit of a headache as I'm stumbling my way through it to get it to work the way I want it to.
I know I can just use rough guidelines until I get things right but we all work differently. And I'm stubborn, so unless I get totally stuck, wont be posting and asking for help. This did seem to be something that wasn't possible (the way I was thinking) to do though, hence why I posted and asking about it, and it turns out to be right, so saved me some headache.
Yincognito wrote: ↑March 26th, 2020, 11:56 amPlus, there is also the
MouseXY plugin that gets any hovered X or Y in "real time" (depnding on the update rate of the skin using the plugin).
Found out about that plugin yesterday as well (it's being used by the Rulers and Guides mod I posted in the first post), not had time to look into it yet though.
And seeing what eclectic_tech wrote while I was typing this. Yes, OCD has a small part of it as well I guess !
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Another thought. I tried one skin some time ago (can't recall which one it was though) where I could not move the skin/dock above a certain height on my desktop, so guessing limits can be set as to where you can put the skins ?? Would it be possible to do a 'box' at a certain place on the desktop where the 'ruler dashboard' is placed, and can't be moved, then use the same box measurement's to lock in the 4 'sliders' as well ? If that makes sense ?