Loading one Skin from another

[Crossfire]

Hello, I am new to rainmeter coding and I am trying to execute or start a second skin when I click on my first skin, but I don't know how. Anyone know how to do this?

here is my skin, the part where it opens program files is where its supposed to open up another skin.


[Rainmeter]
Author=Crossfire
Update=100

[MeterBlack]
Meter=IMAGE
X=0
Y=0
W=100
H=100
SolidColor=15, 0, 0, 1

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
; Grid2
[Grid2]
Meter=Image
ImageName=Grid2.png
LeftMouseUpAction=!Execute ["C:\Program Files"]


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Thanks Guys!

[Kaelri]

Code: Select all

LeftMouseUpAction=!ActivateConfig "ConfigName" "Filename.ini"

More here.

[Crossfire]

[Rainmeter]
Author=Crossfire
Update=100

[MeterBlack]
Meter=IMAGE
X=0
Y=0
W=100
H=100
SolidColor=15, 0, 0, 1

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
; Grid3
[Grid3]
Meter=Image
ImageName=Grid3.png
LeftMouseUpAction=!ActivateConfig "Emergency" "Emergency.ini"
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

I did that but it still isn't working, did I type it wrong or something? And I read the link too..

[Kaelri]

It looks right, assuming you've got the right config name. Can you tell us the complete path to "Emergency.ini"? As in "C:\Users\..."

[Crossfire]

C:\Users\Crossfire\Documents\Rainmeter\Skins\Evangelion\Skins\Emergency\Emergency.ini

And I tried putting Evangelion in like this too.

LeftMouseUpAction=!ActivateConfig "Evangelion" "Emergency.ini"
But that didn't work either.

[Kaelri]

What you'll need is:

Code: Select all

LeftMouseUpAction=!ActivateConfig "Evangelion\Skins\Emergency" "Emergency.ini"

[jsmorley]

Just as a hint for the future, the "ConfigName" of a skin is exactly what you see on the Rainmeter system tray context menu for each running skin.

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[Crossfire]

Thank you guys so much! It works great! I'm finally making progress on my Evangelion Desktop theme. Hey I was wondering, how would I make a skin that fed out raw coding, kinda like command prompt or similar, maybe showed coding that ran in the background of windows. Here's what I am envisioning; I have a desktop background with a box like this:






I wanna align the coding up with the right side since its straight. but i want it to flow down and fade off at the bottom, is this possible? Thank you guys so much. -Crossfire

[thatsIch]

Thank you guys so much! It works great! I'm finally making progress on my Evangelion Desktop theme. Hey I was wondering, how would I make a skin that fed out raw coding, kinda like command prompt or similar, maybe showed coding that ran in the background of windows. Here's what I am envisioning; I have a desktop background with a box like this:






I wanna align the coding up with the right side since its straight. but i want it to flow down and fade off at the bottom, is this possible? Thank you guys so much. -Crossfire

you could simulate it with lua
but it would take quite some cpu cycles

idea: have your file with your text
parse it
have several string-meters
now you shift through every contentline through the meter-array with transparent upper and lower meters

other way would be using an image I guess

[Crossfire]

Hey thanks for that idea. But how would you write the code for that, sorry lol but I'm really new to rainmeter coding. I did, however, proceed to make a fake coding text file like you suggested. Thanks!
-Crossfire