Line Meter - Capabilities
Posted: April 3rd, 2012, 1:41 am
I recently discovered Rainmeter when I started trying to customize my desktop. I was intrigued by all the different things you could monitor with it in conjunction the high levels of customization available. I've mostly been reading about how it works and doing related research. I've tweaked a couple skins here and there, and now I'm about to begin on my first personal skin.
I was wondering if there was any way to set the min, max, and scale of the line meter. Through the use of whatever measure the graph is using, I can set the Y min and max. Is there a way to set the X min and max? I only saw an option for turning on horizontal lines on the graph. Is there a way to change the spacing of these lines or to add vertical lines? I'm guessing that you can't do most of these things through line meters.
The main thing I'm wanting to do is change how long the graph displays information. For instance, maybe I want a meter to monitor network traffic for 5 minutes. Then I might want a meter that tracks the usage and temperature of one of my processor cores for 30 minutes. If this isn't possible with line meter, what might some other possible solutions be to achieving this effect?
Edit: If there is no way to adjust the min and max on the x-axis, what is the traversal time, i.e., how much time has to pass for a point on the graph to go from one end to the other?
Edit2: I decided I could find the traversal time myself by timing some meters I made. It seems that the traversal time is equal to the number of pixels in the line graph's width. 300 pixels = 300 seconds, or 5 minutes. Since the graph updates every second (with update set to 1000) and shifts every second, each pixel takes one second to traverse.
Traversal Time = Width of Line Meter / Updates per Second
I was wondering if there was any way to set the min, max, and scale of the line meter. Through the use of whatever measure the graph is using, I can set the Y min and max. Is there a way to set the X min and max? I only saw an option for turning on horizontal lines on the graph. Is there a way to change the spacing of these lines or to add vertical lines? I'm guessing that you can't do most of these things through line meters.
The main thing I'm wanting to do is change how long the graph displays information. For instance, maybe I want a meter to monitor network traffic for 5 minutes. Then I might want a meter that tracks the usage and temperature of one of my processor cores for 30 minutes. If this isn't possible with line meter, what might some other possible solutions be to achieving this effect?
Edit: If there is no way to adjust the min and max on the x-axis, what is the traversal time, i.e., how much time has to pass for a point on the graph to go from one end to the other?
Edit2: I decided I could find the traversal time myself by timing some meters I made. It seems that the traversal time is equal to the number of pixels in the line graph's width. 300 pixels = 300 seconds, or 5 minutes. Since the graph updates every second (with update set to 1000) and shifts every second, each pixel takes one second to traverse.
Traversal Time = Width of Line Meter / Updates per Second