using a meter from skinA from within skinB help.

[psycomunkee]

What I'm trying to achieve is a multi control skin. Has a music player skin, and some buttons for refreshing a picture frame and bringing up the picture viewer for the picture frame with some further functions to be forthcoming. (Soita skin by Poiru and Picture Frame by Alex Becherer/Michael Mohlman)

In the Picture frame I've got the refresh and fullscreen meters working right.

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[FULLSCREEN VIEW]
Meter=IMAGE
X=10
Y=650
ImageName=fullview.png
LeftMouseDownAction=!Execute [explorer.exe "[RandomImage]"]
ToolTipText="Fullscreen View"

In the multi control skin, I've got the refresh working right, but the fullscreen portion doesn't access the fullscreen meter from the Picture Frame skin - and so the meter brings up the my documents window not the random image like the Picture Frame meter.

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[FULLSCREEN VIEW2]
Meter=IMAGE
X=30r
Y=1r
ImageName=fullview.png
;LeftMouseDownAction=!Execute "MyPictureFrame" ["FULLSCREEN VIEW"]
LeftMouseDownAction=!Execute [!MyPictureFrame] ["explorer.exe" "[RandomImage]"]
;LeftMouseDownAction=!CommandMeasure "MyPictureFrame" [explorer.exe "[RandomImage]"] (doesn't work at all)
ToolTipText="Fullscreen View"

(I've got semicolons set for commenting out portions that don't work)
MyPictureFrame is the name of the skin that has my slideshow running. I know !execute is no longer used but I haven't gotten the way to open the picture without that.

Any suggestions/help/recommendations?

[Eastwood]

what you could try is use the !WriteKeyValue bang to put your image path created in the [randomimage] measure - what ever kind that measure is - into a variable.
Share the variable with @includevariables=#@#myvariables.inc
Et voila, you can implement the following code in your multi control skin.

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LeftMouseDownAction=["explorer.exe" "(#thenameofthepathvariable#)" ]

This should work, as I have tried it.
If you have rainmeter 2.4 or 2.5 installed, the !execute bang is indeed excessive.

Will this work for you as well ?

[psycomunkee]

I will try that when i get up in a few hours. I'll need to tinker with the #include set up as i've not touched that yet.