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.
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Hiding whole skin
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Re: Hiding whole skin
You could create a little skin of your own, then use the !Toggle bang in an image meter.
Your meter would something like this:
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.
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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
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Re: Hiding whole skin
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.
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.
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Re: Hiding whole skin
Thanks a lot, guys.
Call me dumb, but... How do I create a new skin?
Call me dumb, but... How do I create a new skin?
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Re: Hiding whole skin
Please read the complete Rainmeter 101 guide including the Skin Tutorials.
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Re: Hiding whole skin
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:
Any suggestions?
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
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Re: Hiding whole skin
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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
Author=Keilvethe
[meterToggleSkin]
Meter=Image
ImageName=min.png
LeftMouseUpAction=!Toggle "VClouds Weather 2"
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This is the song that never ends. It just goes on and on my friends. Some people started singing it not knowing what it was, and they'll continue singing it forever just because . . .
This is the song that never ends. It just goes on and on my friends. Some people started singing it not knowing what it was, and they'll continue singing it forever just because . . .
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Re: Hiding whole skin
Thanks a lot, again. The thing finally worked.
The .ini file ended up looking like this:
I really thank you very much for all your help.
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"