Monitor Rainmeter Process

[Yincognito]

Hi @jsmorley and @Yincognito, thanks for replying and for your help! Your suggestions have been invaluable. I'm a developer myself, but I've only recently started exploring the world of Rainmeter, and I'm still learning how to make the most of it. I have to say, it's a very interesting and fascinating program, even though a lot of the 'programming' relies on various "workarounds" I might as well call it "WorkaroundMeter"! (Just a bit of ironic humor ).

Jokes aside, it really is a great program. As I mentioned earlier, you both were a huge help in getting my skin to the finish line, especially since I was totally stuck with that setting for reading processes. The thing is, I didn't know that "AdvancedCPU" and "PerfMon" were deprecated.
Honestly, I couldn't have imagined it, since I had recently updated Rainmeter. Generally (in programming), when something becomes obsolete or deprecated, it gets removed from updates, so I assumed those plugins were still usable since they were still there.

Anyway, since you were so helpful , I wanted to share my skin in this 2-minute Youtube Video.
That way (if you're interested or just curious), you can see why I needed to read the "msedge.exe" instances, and I've also given a small overview of other features of my skin while I was at it.

It's looking great - nice work, glad we could help a bit!
Quite a lot of files in your Notepad++ though, you surely have something going on there!

[The GhostRider]

It's looking great - nice work, glad we could help a bit!
Quite a lot of files in your Notepad++ though, you surely have something going on there!

Yes, I do some "Freelance Programming" on GitHub.. My GitHub Profile

And anyway on Notepad++ there is a mix of "Projects" between personal things, and things I do for "Passion" and "Work".

[Yincognito]

Yes, I do some "Freelance Programming" on GitHub.. My GitHub Profile

And anyway on Notepad++ there is a mix of "Projects" between personal things, and things I do for "Passion" and "Work".

Sure thing, that's how we all "operate"!

[sl23]

This would be really great if you could see the info on a per skin basis. Maybe that should be included in the Rainmeter About window!

[Yincognito]

It would, but it'd require major changes to how Rainmeter is written, if even possible (a la Chrome's Task Manager). Thing is, Rainmeter is a single process where all skins run, and the skins are simply "windows" of Rainmeter, so there's hardly a way to differentiate between them in terms of resource consumption (since they're not separate processes in the first place).

That being said, checking that is really simple nevertheless - just load only the desired skin(s) and check how much Rainmeter uses from the system resources, and that would be the said skin(s) impact. This will work since Rainmeter itself without any skins is a near 0% resource usage anyway, it just sits there and does nothing without anything loaded.

[sl23]

Rainmeter itself without any skins is a near 0% resource usage anyway, it just sits there and does nothing without anything loaded.

I did think about loading one at a time, but wasn't sure about this. Good to know, thanks

[Yincognito]

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I wanted to share my skin in this 2-minute Youtube Video.
That way (if you're interested or just curious), you can see why I needed to read the "msedge.exe" instances, and I've also given a small overview of other features of my skin while I was at it.

Nice work!
One thing I noticed is that you don’t have a code highlighting for Rainmeter. Is it intentionally or you didn’t know that such thing existed? If it is the latter then here is the Rainmeter code highlighter for Notepad++
https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?t=6336

[Yincognito]

Nice work!
One thing I noticed is that you don’t have a code highlighting for Rainmeter. Is it intentionally or you didn’t know that such thing existed? If it is the latter then here is the Rainmeter code highlighter for Notepad++
https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?t=6336

Very good point. The thread is sticky at the top of the Featured Plugins & Addons section, but should be even more visible since it so much easier to work with syntax highlighting in a skin.

RainLexer.jpg

[The GhostRider]

Nice work!
One thing I noticed is that you don’t have a code highlighting for Rainmeter. Is it intentionally or you didn’t know that such thing existed? If it is the latter then here is the Rainmeter code highlighter for Notepad++
https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?t=6336

Thanks for the info, I didn't know there were highlighters specifically for Rainmeter, but in general the basic highlighters in Notepad++ are enough for me, in any case I jumped at the chance to add the highlighters, I customized them a bit
Do you like them like this?