I'm kinda lost and don't know what I am doing wrong. It must be something small, yet I can't figure it out.
I have these measures and one meter. For some reason, I just can't get the Title being displayed though.
It displays the text "Test This" and the mouseover is also showing the description and date. Yet I cannot see the title, although in the About Rainmeter I can see the value in the MeaTitle1 measure.
Matth wrote:Oh wow, thanks. So simple. I wasn't aware that you need to define the W parameter.
You actually don't for String meters. 99% of the time you won't define W or H ahead of time, as with text that is coming dynamically from a measure, how can you know how wide it will / could be? W and H on String meters will generally only be used when you have a very fixed size you want for design purposes.
What is going on here is that with a String meter based on a WebParser measure, on the first update the value of the measure, and thus the string displayed by the meter is "" or an empty string. If you don't have something, either the W and H on the String meter, some appropriately sized background Image meter, or an explicitly set SkinWidth and SkinHeight set in [Rainmeter], then the skin will be created with no width or height and will never change.
Rainmeter doesn't wait around for a WebParser measure to finish trudging out to the internet and retrieving data. It carries on with its work, and when the WebParser measure is done, Rainmeter will get and use the result. On the very first skin update, that means that the value of a WebParser measure will always be "" or an empty string.
The BEST way to handle this, or at least the easiest, is to simply use DynamicWindowSize=1 in the [Rainmeter] section of your skin.