Hiding whole skin

[Keilvethe]

Hello. Recently, I downloaded VCloud's Weather 2 skin. I gotta say, the skin is awesome. Anyway, since I'm kinda running out of space on my desktop, I was wondering if there was a way to add a button to hide/show the whole skin.

Any help in this matter will be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[Brian]

You could create a little skin of your own, then use the !Toggle bang in an image meter.

Your meter would something like this:

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[meterToggleSkin]
Meter=Image
X=0
Y=0
ImageName=image.png
LeftMouseUpAction=!Toggle #SKINSPATH#Vclouds2\vClouds.ini

Obviously you have to substitute image.png for an appropriate image of your choice. You also need to substitute "VClouds2" to the right path as well.

-Brian

[smurfier]

First create a completely separate skin which will function as the button. This is where you will want to use the !Toggle bang. The usage for this would be !Toggle Config/Name. The config name is the path within the skins folder to the skin without the file name which in your case would simply be !Toggle VCloudsWeather2.

In the [Rainmeter] section of the weather skin you need to add OnRefreshAction=!Hide. This will make sure the skin hides itself when Rainmeter starts.

[Keilvethe]

Thanks a lot, guys.

Call me dumb, but... How do I create a new skin?

[smurfier]

Please read the complete Rainmeter 101 guide including the Skin Tutorials.

[Keilvethe]

So, I gave it a shot, and everything seems good... except that the button does nothing at all.

Here's how the .ini file looks:

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
Author=Keilvethe
BackgroundMode=0

[Variables]
SkinPath=C:\Users\Keilvethe\Documents\Rainmeter\Skins\VClouds Weather 2\Skins\VCloudsWeather2

; METERS

[meterToggleSkin]
Meter=Image
X=0
Y=0
ImageName=min.png
MouseActionCursor=1
LeftMouseUpAction=!Toggle #SkinPath#\VClouds Weather 2 - 2DaysH.ini

Any suggestions?

[smurfier]

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
Author=Keilvethe

[meterToggleSkin]
Meter=Image
ImageName=min.png
LeftMouseUpAction=!Toggle "VClouds Weather 2"

The config name is the same as it is in Rainmeter.ini (right click the Rainmeter tray icon and select "Edit Settings").

[Keilvethe]

Thanks a lot, again. The thing finally worked.

The .ini file ended up looking like this:

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
Author=Keilvethe


[meterToggleSkin]
Meter=Image
ImageName=min.png
LeftMouseUpAction=!Toggle "VClouds Weather 2\Skins\VCloudsWeather2"

I really thank you very much for all your help.