[Solved] Randomized greeting based on array?

[firefiber]

Hi.

I recently tried to create a welcome message, every time I log on. It'll display for a few seconds, and hide itself. This works out great. But I want to do more with it.

Is it possible to randomize the greeting message with a set number of words in an array?
Currently, it just says "Hello, [my name]".

Is it possible to store an array of greeting words in other languages (for example, like how Flickr does it or even Wordpress), where they'd display something like "Ola, [name]!" and then the next time display "Hello, [name]", and so on, in a set number of different languages.

What I would want to do is to store these words in an array (the different translations of "hello"), and then randomize it, each time the skin loads.

Any possible way to do this?

[moshi]

definitely possible.
have a look at the quote plugin: http://docs.rainmeter.net/manual/plugins/quote

[firefiber]

Thanks!

I just tried it right now, and I'm probably doing it wrong. Here's my code:

[Rainmeter]
Update=1000

[MeasureQuote]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=QuotePlugin
PathName=%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\My Documents\Test
Subfolders=1
FileFilter=*.txt

[MeterQuote]
Meter=String
MeasureName=MeasureQuote
X=0
Y=0
W=200
H=200

The lines in red are the ones I changed from the example code given. All it displays is the path of the random.txt file I placed inside the Test folder I created.

What am I doing wrong?

[jsmorley]

Quote plugin does two things depending on the options you set:

1) Returns a random file name from a folder / subfolders
2) Returns a random line from a file

You are using options that make it understand you want 1) above...

If you just say:

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000

[MeasureQuote]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=QuotePlugin
PathName=%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\My Documents\Test.txt

[MeterQuote]
Meter=String
MeasureName=MeasureQuote
X=0
Y=0
W=200
H=200

It should work fine to return a random line from Test.txt.

P.S. You are probably going to want some UpdateDivider= option on the measure, as I'm sure you don't want a new random line once a second.

[firefiber]

Yay! Got it to work, thanks guys!

One last question, is there a way to delay the skin from appearing? Say, for instance, 2 seconds after the computer has logged on, I want it to display a string, or whatever.
I know how to hide it using a counter, but any way to hide by default, and show after a certain amount of time?

[smurfier]

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
OnRefreshAction=!Hide

[Show]
Measure=Calc
Formula=Show+1
IfAboveValue=2
IfAboveAction=[!DisableMeasure #CURRENTSECTION#][!Show][!EnableMeasure Hide]

[Hide]
Measure=Calc
Formula=Hide+1
IfAboveValue=10
IfAboveAction=[!DisableMeasure #CURRENTSECTION#][!Hide]