New Inline Options for String meter
Posted: July 31st, 2015, 3:13 pm
We have added some new String meter features to Rainmeter, with new Inline Options functionality.
Important Note: The entire Inline Options functionality requires that Rainmeter have D2D (Direct2D) enabled. This in effect means that this functionality is not supported on Windows XP, and will be ignored on that platform, or if D2D is disabled in the Settings in Rainmeter.
Inline Options
This feature will allow you to specify some existing and new string formatting for the String meter. This formatting can be done to all OR PART of the string. Which in effect allows you to do "inline" formatting. (thus the name)
This has three primary purposes:
Inline Options Documentation
You will find that there is a LOT that this adds to the String meter. The following is a series of skins in a .rmskin that demonstrates most of the new features, and some screenshots of the example skins:
InlineExamples_1.0.rmskin
Face Size Color Weight CharacterSpacing Style Stretch Typography GradientColor GradientColorStringBar
Important Note: The entire Inline Options functionality requires that Rainmeter have D2D (Direct2D) enabled. This in effect means that this functionality is not supported on Windows XP, and will be ignored on that platform, or if D2D is disabled in the Settings in Rainmeter.
Inline Options
This feature will allow you to specify some existing and new string formatting for the String meter. This formatting can be done to all OR PART of the string. Which in effect allows you to do "inline" formatting. (thus the name)
This has three primary purposes:
- Changing the inline format of part of the string. What this means is that you might have two or more FontFace, FontSize or FontColor (or other) settings in a string, without needing to use multiple meters and relative positioning.
- Adding some Direct2D character formatting features to the String meter. These include things like more robust control of the Weight of the font, new style features like Character Spacing, Oblique, Underline and Strikethrough, and control of Stretch and Typography features when used with supporting fonts.
- Support for a color Gradient on part or all of the string.
- Face
- Size
- Color
- Weight
- CharacterSpacing
- Italic
- Oblique
- Underline
- Strikethrough
- Stretch
- Typography
- GradientColor
Inline Options Documentation
You will find that there is a LOT that this adds to the String meter. The following is a series of skins in a .rmskin that demonstrates most of the new features, and some screenshots of the example skins:
InlineExamples_1.0.rmskin
Face Size Color Weight CharacterSpacing Style Stretch Typography GradientColor GradientColorStringBar