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Honeysprings
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Creating a skin

Post by Honeysprings »

Howdy! :welcome:

I'm new to rainmeter's coding language, and find it a bit confusing and overwhelming. I'm looking to create a weather skin similar to the variant of DINAJ4 that displays various star wars planets in correspondence with various combinations of temperature and humidity. Initially I was going to simply edit that skin, but felt I wasn't familiar enough with the files to do so without kriffing it up, so I decided to build from scratch.

Does anyone have any tutorials, guides, or tips they'd recommend?

Thanks,

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balala
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Re: Creating a skin

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Honeysprings wrote: October 13th, 2022, 3:56 pm Does anyone have any tutorials, guides, or tips they'd recommend?
Try this.
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Re: Creating a skin

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Apologies!

That was the tutorial I initially used to set up the basics. The largest problem I'm having is understanding the coding language, which I'm having trouble finding comprehensive resources on.
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Re: Creating a skin

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Honeysprings wrote: October 13th, 2022, 5:37 pm That was the tutorial I initially used to set up the basics. The largest problem I'm having is understanding the coding language, which I'm having trouble finding comprehensive resources on.
There are a few basic descriptions on Rainmeter in the help (recommend follow the links as well), you should read them. Hoping they can clarify at least some terms.
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Re: Creating a skin

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Honeysprings wrote: October 13th, 2022, 5:37 pm Apologies!

That was the tutorial I initially used to set up the basics. The largest problem I'm having is understanding the coding language, which I'm having trouble finding comprehensive resources on.
Rainmeter is not really a "coding language" in the traditional sense. It is actually in the form of a Windows .INI file, like with ones from ancient Windows 3.1 days. Each "section" is a measure (gets a value) or a meter (shows a value), and together they tell Rainmeter what to do.
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