Text editor skin?

[Active Colors]

Sorry for the delay, I was busy with some other stuff as well. This should do what I think you wanted in the above code:

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
AccurateText=1
DynamicWindowSize=1

[Variables]
CurrentInput="Blank File"
Store=iiiiiiiiiiiiii

[MeterButton]
Meter=String
FontSize=12
FontColor=255,156,0
SolidColor=100,100,100,0
StringStyle=Bold
Padding=5,5,5,5
AntiAlias=1
Text=X
LeftMouseUpAction=[!CommandMeasure MeasureInput "ExecuteBatch 1"]

[MeterInputLabel]
Meter=String
X=25
Y=0r
W=170
FontSize=12
FontColor=255,156,0
SolidColor=100,100,100,50
Padding=5,6,5,4
StringStyle=Italic
AntiAlias=1
DynamicVariables=1
Text=#CurrentInput#

[MeterPerma]
Meter=String
X=210
Y=0r
W=170
;H=18
FontSize=12
FontColor=255,156,0
SolidColor=100,100,100,50
Padding=5,6,5,4
StringStyle=Italic
AntiAlias=1
DynamicVariables=1
Text=#Store#

[MeasureInput]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=InputText
X=27
Y=4
W=171
H=20
FontSize=12
FontColor=255,255,255,255
SolidColor=47,47,47,255
AntiAlias=1
FocusDismiss=1
DefaultValue=#CurrentInput#
Command1=[!SetVariable CurrentInput "$UserInput$"][!SetVariable Store "[MeasureInput]"][!WriteKeyValue Variables Store "[MeasureInput]"][!UpdateMeter *][!Redraw]
DynamicVariables=1

I don't think this solves your original problem though. First, what you do in the above code is write things to the SAME file. Sure, this can be changed to write to some other existing INI/INC file, but it won't be "multiline" the way you think, since each line would basically be an option that can be overwritten, and that ends as soon as the newline character is encountered...

EDIT: ActiveColors beat me to it, but there are some differences between the codes.

Yeah I was not sure what was going on in the skin so I just reduced the amount of 'logic' :d

[ItsJustRyan]

Which begs the question ... what you intended?

I intended to have that text editor kind of thing, but I didn't imagine how the !WriteKeyValue bang worked correctly and didnt get the intended effect. Right now I'm looking into how to use lua script in rainmeter for the read/write lua library

[Active Colors]

Yincognito,
I have just come up with an idea that it might be possible to create a multi-line text editor skin but there are some issues and I don't know if they can be fixed. See the gif below with the issues in-action:

GIF.gif

[ItsJustRyan]

Yincognito,
I have just come up with an idea that it might be possible to create a multi-line text editor skin but there are some issues and I don't know if they can be fixed. See the gif below with the issues in-action:
GIF.gif

Lol I'm struggling to even get the code to read a text file.

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
AccurateText=1
DynamicWindowSize=1

[Variables]

[MeasureScript]
Measure=Script
ScriptFile=ReadFile.lua
;Disabled=1

[MeterReadOut]
Meter=String
X=25
Y=0
W=170
FontSize=12
FontColor=255,156,0
SolidColor=100,100,100,50
Padding=5,6,5,4
StringStyle=Italic
AntiAlias=1
DynamicVariables=1
Text=[&MeasureScript:ReadFile('data.txt')]

Forgive the formatting it was taken from my previous attempt. Currently data.txt is just a text file with random filler text, and the ReadFile.lua is taken from Rainmeter's read-write file documentation.

[Active Colors]

Lol I'm struggling to even get the code to read a text file.

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
AccurateText=1
DynamicWindowSize=1

[Variables]

[MeasureScript]
Measure=Script
ScriptFile=ReadFile.lua
;Disabled=1

[MeterReadOut]
Meter=String
X=25
Y=0
W=170
FontSize=12
FontColor=255,156,0
SolidColor=100,100,100,50
Padding=5,6,5,4
StringStyle=Italic
AntiAlias=1
DynamicVariables=1
Text=[&MeasureScript:ReadFile('data.txt')]

Forgive the formatting it was taken from my previous attempt. Currently data.txt is just a text file with random filler text, and the ReadFile.lua is taken from Rainmeter's read-write file documentation.

I was about to post my test code but you were faster than me because I was cleaning up my test code.

Lua could be the approach but due to my lack of experience with lua I use Quote plugin to read a text file. https://docs.rainmeter.net/manual/plugins/quote/

This is how it is done with Quote plugin:

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[MeasureNotes]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=QuotePlugin
PathName=#@#Note.txt
Separator=¶

[MeterNotes]
Meter=String
MeasureName=MeasureNotes
Text=%1

[jsmorley]

Plugin=QuotePlugin

[Active Colors]

Plugin=QuotePlugin

Was also about to point about that it could be good to add another option to use simply "Quote" because the "Plugin" part looks rudimentary.
Also, on the sidebar of the documentation and in the title of the page it says "Quote plugin" while it had to be "QuotePlugin plugin".

EDIT: I fixed the mistake in my reply above.

[jsmorley]

Was also about to point about that it could be good to add another option to use simply "Quote" because the "Plugin" part looks rudimentary.
Also, on the sidebar of the documentation and in the title of the page it says "Quote plugin" while it had to be "QuotePlugin plugin".

Yeah, let us chew on this a bit. I also hate the redundancy of QuotePlugin.

[ItsJustRyan]

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[MeasureNotes]
[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
AccurateText=1
DynamicWindowSize=1

[Variables]

[MeasureNotes]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=QuotePlugin
PathName=#@#data/data.txt
;Separator=¶

[MeterNotes]
Meter=String
MeasureName=MeasureNotes
X=25
Y=0
W=170
FontSize=12
FontColor=255,156,0
SolidColor=100,100,100,50
Padding=5,6,5,4
StringStyle=Italic
AntiAlias=1
DynamicVariables=1
Text=%1

It does not appear to want to work :/

[Active Colors]

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[MeasureNotes]
[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
AccurateText=1
DynamicWindowSize=1

[Variables]

[MeasureNotes]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=QuotePlugin
PathName=#@#data/data.txt
;Separator=¶

[MeterNotes]
Meter=String
MeasureName=MeasureNotes
X=25
Y=0
W=170
FontSize=12
FontColor=255,156,0
SolidColor=100,100,100,50
Padding=5,6,5,4
StringStyle=Italic
AntiAlias=1
DynamicVariables=1
Text=%1

It does not appear to want to work :/

Are you sure your data.txt file is in /@Resources/data/ directory?
Also, you commented out Separator=¶ with semi-column. You need to remove the semi-column in order to properly display line-breaks.