illustro Clock Help-2

[eclectic-tech]

This should give you the desired results...

Because you had 'illustro clock' in the title, most replies thought you were using the original code, so those solutions would not correct for changes you made... sorry again for overlooking, but you threw us all a "curve" by siting a specific skin!

[MourningStar]

This should give you the desired results...

Because you had 'illustro clock' in the title, ...

Well, that is what it's called in the Manager (refer to image). The only mod to the ini file I can recall making is adding the shadow from same titled (v1) post here: https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=28119&p=146145&hilit=illustro+Clock#p146145

I also recall asking for help in altering the time display but I could not locate the thread. oh well ...

[eclectic-tech]

Well, somewhere along the line you made quite a few changes...

illustro (original) clock code displays this...

illustroclockoriginal.png

While the code you posted show this...

illustroclockyours.png

Here is the original clock code.

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; Lines starting ; (semicolons) are commented out.
; That is, they do not affect the code and are here for demonstration purposes only.
; ----------------------------------

[Rainmeter]
; This section contains general settings that can be used to change how Rainmeter behaves.
Update=1000
AccurateText=1
; 210x68
Background=#@#Background.png
; #@# is equal to Rainmeter\Skins\illustro\@Resources
BackgroundMode=3
BackgroundMargins=0,34,0,14
Group=MyToggleSkinGroup

[Metadata]
; Contains basic information of the skin.
Name=Clock
Author=poiru
Information=Displays the current date and time.
License=Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0
Version=1.0.0

[Variables]
; Variables declared here can be used later on between two # characters (e.g. #MyVariable#).
fontName=Trebuchet MS
textSize=8
colorBar=235,170,0,255
colorText=255,255,255,205

; ----------------------------------
; MEASURES return some kind of value
; ----------------------------------

[measureTime]
; This measure returns the time in a 24-hour format (i.e. HH:MM).
Measure=Time
Format=%H:%M
; For a 12-hour clock, change the Format option above to: %I:%M %p
; Refer to the Rainmeter manual for other format codes.

[measureDate]
; Returns the date as DD.MM.YYYY
Measure=Time
Format=%d.%m.%Y

[measureDay]
; Returns the current day
Measure=Time
Format=%A

; ----------------------------------
; STYLES are used to "centralize" options
; ----------------------------------

[styleTitle]
StringAlign=Center
StringCase=Upper
StringStyle=Bold
;StringEffect=Shadow
;FontEffectColor=0,0,0,50
FontColor=#colorText#
FontFace=#fontName#
FontSize=10
AntiAlias=1
ClipString=1
InLineSetting=Shadow | 2 | 2 | 0.75 | 0,0,0,150

[styleLeftText]
StringAlign=Left
; Meters using styleLeftText will be left-aligned.
StringCase=None
StringStyle=Bold
StringEffect=Shadow
FontEffectColor=0,0,0,20
FontColor=#colorText#
FontFace=#fontName#
FontSize=#textSize#
AntiAlias=1
ClipString=1

[styleRightText]
StringAlign=Right
StringCase=None
StringStyle=Bold
StringEffect=Shadow
FontEffectColor=0,0,0,20
FontColor=#colorText#
FontFace=#fontName#
FontSize=#textSize#
AntiAlias=1
ClipString=1

[styleSeperator]
SolidColor=255,255,255,15

; ----------------------------------
; METERS display images, text, bars, etc.
; ----------------------------------

[meterTitle]
Meter=String
MeterStyle=styleTitle
; Using MeterStyle=styleTitle will basically "copy" the
; contents of the [styleTitle] section here during runtime.
MeasureName=measureTime
X=100
Y=12
W=190
H=18
Text=%1
; %1 stands for the value of MeasureName (measureTime in this case).

[meterDay]
Meter=String
MeterStyle=styleLeftText
MeasureName=measureDay
X=10
Y=40
W=190
H=14
Text=%1

[meterDate]
Meter=String
MeterStyle=styleRightText
MeasureName=measureDate
X=200
Y=0r
; r stands for relative. In this case, the Y postition of meterValueCPU is 0 pixels
; below the Y value of the previous meter (i.e it's the same as in meterLabelCPU).
W=190
H=14
Text=%1

[meterSeperator]
Meter=Image
MeterStyle=styleSeperator
X=10
Y=52
W=190
H=1

You can paste this into your editor and save in 'Documents\Rainmeter\Skins\illustro' as 'clock-original.ini'.

[MourningStar]

Well, somewhere along the line you made quite a few changes...

yes - and you read my mind because I was going to ask how the original appeared. Thx for the original code, but I prefer mine ...more info and smaller footprint(only text), no background/total transparent and shadow text for good visibiliity against a white background. Hey! Since you say, "you completely changed the illustro clock code", maybe I should rename and present it as 'my' very first skin?

[eclectic-tech]

"Make some noise!" ... There would be nothing stopping you from publishing your clock!

illustro's code has a Creative Commons license, so as long as you use the same license and credit parts of it to illustro by including a modified Metadata section, it's legit.

Replace the current [Metadata] section with something like this:

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[Metadata]
; Contains basic information of the skin.
Name=Clock2
Author=MourningStar
Information=Displays the current date and time. Portions based on illustro clock by poiru
License=Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0
Version=1.0.0

Glad you have it working the way you wanted.