Curving a Digital Meter Display

[Ionstorm]

I wanted to do a hunting theme for a family member. So I scanned a shotgun shell. I am pretty good with photoshop and I edited out the shell size on the bottom. Figuring this would be a quick skin to build I went to the coding in Rainmeter. It actually turned out very nice except I am just too picky. The Hard drive size readout I wanted on the bottom didn't look right. I wanted to curve the text readout to match the curve of the outside of the casing. I have seen multiple posts on angles and histograms but those were just graphs. This seemed different to me. Difficult to me being a noobie to coding. Easy maybe to some of you.

I can post my original code if anyone thinks it will help. I have included a URL to the pic.

http://www38.zippyshare.com/v/2997274/file.html

I have also packaged the skin in a .RMSKIN format if you want to look.

http://www66.zippyshare.com/v/18868022/file.html

Thanks in advance
Ionstorm

[Mordasius]

There is no way to display curved text in a string meter. You can however get a curved text effect if you make a bitmap with curved text using Photoshop, GIMP or whatever and then use a bitmap meter (http://docs.rainmeter.net/manual-beta/meters/bitmap). The tricky thing in your case is that each number will be at a slightly different angle depending whether it indicates the 100's 10's or 1's of GB free space. e.g. the '2' in 214, 21, and 2 will all be different so you will need three bitmaps with the numbers 0-9 - one bitmap for the 100s, one for the 10's and one for the 1's.

[Ionstorm]

I was afraid you were going to say something like that. I am not afraid of the photoshop work but it gets tedious after a while. Coming up with those angles.....I would rather leave it the way it is. Maybe after it is finished and posted someone else might pick up the torch and finish up the race!

Thank you!