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I'm very new to customizing anything like this. I have 0 script writing knowledge or anything of the matter. Is there anything I need to understand fully or more of besides writing scripts. Amy programs I should know How to use? Or any other general information that would help me along the way? I could explain what I exactly want to do but I think it's a bit difficult to explain everything I am wanting to accomplish here hah. So yea anyway! Glad to be here and start learning and working on how to get this all going this weekend

Blastonite wrote:I'm very new to customizing anything like this. I have 0 script writing knowledge or anything of the matter. Is there anything I need to understand fully or more of besides writing scripts. Amy programs I should know How to use? Or any other general information that would help me along the way? I could explain what I exactly want to do but I think it's a bit difficult to explain everything I am wanting to accomplish here hah. So yea anyway! Glad to be here and start learning and working on how to get this all going this weekend

Hi Blastonite

Most Rainmeter skins are simple Keyword=Value (.ini file) format, and can be edited in any text editor.

Do not use Notepad.exe included in Windows; it is a very limited text editor and there are better ones that will make creating and editing skin files easier. You can find a list of very useful links to them in the Important Links section of this forum.
I use Notepad++ with Rainlexer and Snippets plugins, and would recommend those.
SublimeText is another popular editor with a Rainmeter dedicated plugin.
Atom is another that has a plugin for editing Rainmeter skins.

Finally, I highly recommend reading through the Documentation and examples to get familiar with the commands and how skins work.

You might get things started this weekend (and perhaps finished ), feel free to ask questions in the Help section if you don't understand something. There are quite a few knowledgeable members who are always willing to help!

Welcome to the forum

Hey thanks for the tip about Note++ that thing was really helpful with my first little edit. I changed my disks to be the same as I have them listed on the computer and got them to show up in the proper order on the box too Small accomplishment but awesome to me. Thanks for suggesting that program!http://imgur.com/wEXffFB

Always happy to help...

Nice edit!

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Haha nice yea. I just have to learn to give them a background and make custom Icons if possible and then learn to use PS so I can make a nice background for the overlay I want to try and make. Thanks again for the help.