Screen rotation

[maria_fj]

Hi,

I am new to RainMeter and I am surprised about the functions and skins provided. I am currently not sure if my question is a Skin related one or a generic one. Lets try it here first.

I have adjusted my Skin in that sense that if fits on my second monitor very well in the different borders. Now, when I detach my laptop to work standalone the screen resolution changes. And as well the orientation. Now the very well aligned skin on my monitor looks horrible as a standalone version. e.g. border is in the middle, not completely filled to the bottom, missing items, overlapping items, etc.

I would have expected that the positions of the items would change dynamically and in relation to the previous settings as soon as the resolution resp. orientation changes.

Is there a way to achieve this? (Have proper positioning, completely filled out borders, etc)
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[MikeG621]

Part of the problem is the X/Y coordinates of the skin from your second monitor no longer exist once you've detached from the dock, not just the resolution changes. I've got two additional monitors plus the laptop screen at work, and if I were to put skins on the monitors and then detach, the skins don't know where to go. I get around this by never putting skins on removable screens, but I suppose you might be able to save different layouts for when you have the additional monitors and when you don't and have the skins use the built-in screen/work area variables so they adjust to the current monitor size. Just load the appropriate layout when your monitor situation changes.

[maria_fj]

Hi,

Hm', perhaps I was not real clear in my question. I have a laptop to which a screen is attached. I disable the laptops screen and have everything on the standalone-screen. For RainMeter this is indicated as PrimaryScreen. When I detach the laptop from this standalone screen, then the PrimaryScreen is the laptops one, i.e. different resolution.

So, the one part is when I detach the laptop and the screen resolution changes. But screen resolution changes might happen as well with changes in the Windows-settings anyway. I cannot follow the arguments reg. off-screen-position, cause when I completely reload the complete theme, everything will be displayed properly. There aren't any OFF-screen.

The same issue applies for changes in screen orientation, e.g. Landscape => Horizontal. A complete reload of the skin positions everything (more or less) properly and that's it. The main question for me is, if there is a chance that RainMeter automatically reloads the current Skin completely as soon as the system tells him 'ScreenRes (resp. ScreenOrientation) changed'.

Could the reload be done automatically?

maria

[FlyingHyrax]

This is not a great solution, but you could probably hack something together with Lua and some built in variables.

Rainmeter has many monitor related built-in variables. What you would need to do is have a script watch the value of the variable and fire an app refresh bang a skin refresh bang when it changes.

Here's a simple way to make your script "watch" some value in the skin - for example, a variable - and take some action only on updates when the value has changed.

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function Initialize()
    Old = nil
end

function Update()
    local New = SKIN:GetVariable('SomeVar')
    if Old ~= New then
        -- do stuff
        Old = New
    end
end

[eclectic-tech]

The same issue applies for changes in screen orientation, e.g. Landscape => Horizontal. A complete reload of the skin positions everything (more or less) properly and that's it. The main question for me is, if there is a chance that RainMeter automatically reloads the current Skin completely as soon as the system tells him 'ScreenRes (resp. ScreenOrientation) changed'.

This may help you (another JSMorley addon!)

[FlyingHyrax]

To elaborate on my previous post, here is an example of a skin that refreshes itself when the screen resolution (specifically, the value of the SCREENAREAWIDTH variable) changes:

Skin:

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[Rainmeter]

[Metadata]
Name=ResChange
Author=Flying Hyrax | flyinghyrax.deviantart.com
Information=Example skin showing a simple way to automatically refresh a skin when screen resolution changes.
Version=1.0
License=CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

[Variables]

; see here for more built-in screen variables:
; http://docs.rainmeter.net/manual/variables/built-in-variables#MonitorVariables
; turn on verbosity by changing DbgOut to 1
[measureResChangeScript]
Measure=SCRIPT
ScriptFile=res-watcher.lua
Res=#SCREENAREAWIDTH#
DbgOut=0

[meterBackground]
Meter=IMAGE
X=0
Y=0
W=400
H=200
SolidColor=0,0,0,200

[meterSomeString]
Meter=STRING
X=200
Y=100
Text="An example! #SCREENAREAWIDTH#"
FontFace=Segoe UI
FontSize=16
FontColor=240,240,240
StringAlign=CENTERCENTER
AntiAlias=1
Dynamicvariables=1

Lua:

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-- "Detect Value Change" snippet from:
-- http://docs.rainmeter.net/snippets/detect-value-change
old, dbg = nil, false

function Initialize()
	old = SELF:GetNumberOption('Res')
	dbg = (SELF:GetNumberOption('DbgOut', 0) == 1 and true or false)
	if dbg then print ("res-watcher: initial value: " .. old) end
end

function Update()
	local new = SELF:GetNumberOption('Res')
	if old ~= new then
		old = new
		if dbg then print ("res-watcher: changed to " .. new) end
		SKIN:Bang('!Refresh')
	end
end

rmskin:

ResWatcherExample_1.0.rmskin