Need help with running a command in my skin

[xRedPhantom69]

So i am creating my own desktop "shortcuts" and my issue is that instead of one of the shortcuts executing an .bat file, it just opens a blank cmd.exe

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//The section in the code:
[meterPowerOffClickable]
Meter=Image
W=69
H=69
X=1361
Y=950
LeftMouseUpAction=["#@#\Bat\shutdown.bat"]
RightMouseUpAction=["#@#\Bat\restart.bat"]
Greyscale=1
SolidColor=00000001
z-order=4

//The bat file:
@echo off
shutdown /s /f /t 0

Thanks

[jsmorley]

So i am creating my own desktop "shortcuts" and my issue is that instead of one of the shortcuts executing an .bat file, it just opens a blank cmd.exe

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//The section in the code:
[meterPowerOffClickable]
Meter=Image
W=69
H=69
X=1361
Y=950
LeftMouseUpAction=["#@#\Bat\shutdown.bat"]
RightMouseUpAction=["#@#\Bat\restart.bat"]
Greyscale=1
SolidColor=00000001
z-order=4

//The bat file:
@echo off
shutdown /s /f /t 0

Thanks

Modern versions of Windows are not happy about executing .bat batch files by just double-clicking on them in File Manager. That is in effect what you are doing with your approach in the Left/Right mouse actions. Batch files are designed to be executed "inside" a cmd.exe console window. So what is happening is that the command is starting a console window, but not executing the contents of the batch file(s).

This can be resolved in Rainmeter by using the RunCommand Plugin. By default, RunCommand will open a cmd.exe window as the "Program", and then execute whatever is set as the "Parameter" inside that window. The option State=Hide on the RunCommand measure will make the cmd.exe console window "invisible".

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Rainmeter]
Update=1000
DynamicWindowSize=1
AccurateText=1

[MeasureExecute]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=RunCommand
State=Hide

[MeterShutdownRestart]
Meter=Image
W=69
H=69
LeftMouseUpAction=[!SetOption MeasureExecute Parameter "#@#\Bat\shutdown.bat"][!CommandMeasure MeasureExecute "Run"]
RightMouseUpAction=[!SetOption MeasureExecute Parameter "#@#\Bat\restart.bat"][!CommandMeasure MeasureExecute "Run"]
SolidColor=255,255,255,255

What this does is use !SetOption to set the Parameter value for the RunCommand measure ([MeasureExecute]), then "run" the command.

Note that this will instantly shutdown or restart your computer, and while it's entirely up to you, I'd be tempted to at least make these a double-click command and not a single-click, to reduce accidentally running them.

To be honest, unless you need them for some other purpose, I'd lose the .bat files entirely, and just execute the shutdown commands directly.

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

[MeasureExecute]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=RunCommand
State=Hide

[MeterShutdownRestart]
Meter=Image
W=69
H=69
LeftMouseDoubleClickAction=[!SetOption MeasureExecute Parameter "shutdown /s /f /t 0"][!CommandMeasure MeasureExecute "Run"]
RightMouseDoubleClickAction=[!SetOption MeasureExecute Parameter "shutdown /r /f /t 0"][!CommandMeasure MeasureExecute "Run"]
SolidColor=255,255,255,255

Here is an example skin I created a while back...

ShutdownSkin_1.0.rmskin

1.jpg