Unable to read resource files

[Honeysprings]

Howdy!

I'm following the basic weather rainmeter tutorial and have extracted the '@includefiles' package into my resources folder for the skin and set up the code to 'import' the variables.
When I load the skin and check the log to ensure the measures are working properly, the log says that it was unable to read the files.

Does anyone know what may be causing this?

Thanks,

Honeysprings

[SilverAzide]

Howdy!

I'm following the basic weather rainmeter tutorial and have extracted the '@includefiles' package into my resources folder for the skin and set up the code to 'import' the variables.
When I load the skin and check the log to ensure the measures are working properly, the log says that it was unable to read the files.

Does anyone know what may be causing this?

Thanks,

Honeysprings

Please post your skin here (just the main one, not the include templates). No one will be able to help without it.

[balala]

I'm following the basic weather rainmeter tutorial and have extracted the '@includefiles' package into my resources folder for the skin and set up the code to 'import' the variables.
When I load the skin and check the log to ensure the measures are working properly, the log says that it was unable to read the files.

If you extracted anything somewhere (not sure where to be honest), did you add the proper @Include option to your code? If it's not added, you're waiting in vain the skin to use the measures.
As SilverAzide says, you should post a skin here, but I think you should have to pack the whole config as you have it and upload the package here.

[Honeysprings]

If you extracted anything somewhere (not sure where to be honest), did you add the proper @Include option to your code? If it's not added, you're waiting in vain the skin to use the measures.
As SilverAzide says, you should post a skin here, but I think you should have to pack the whole config as you have it and upload the package here.

I hope it works!

MyFirstSkin2.zip

[SilverAzide]

Howdy!

I'm following the basic weather rainmeter tutorial and have extracted the '@includefiles' package into my resources folder for the skin and set up the code to 'import' the variables.
When I load the skin and check the log to ensure the measures are working properly, the log says that it was unable to read the files.

Does anyone know what may be causing this?

The reason your skin is not working is that the path to the template "include files" isn't correct. Remember that "#@#" is a special variable that points to the "@Resources" folder. So, your code says...

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@includeVariables=#@#WeatherComJSONVariables.inc
...etc.

...but that is not where you put this file. You placed all the template files in a subfolder named "@IncludeFiles", so what you need for this to work is:

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@includeVariables=#@#@IncludeFiles\WeatherComJSONVariables.inc
...etc.

I suggest you simply move all the files up one level into the @Resources folder instead of nesting them so deeply, but it is entirely your call, it makes no real difference as long as the code references the proper file location.

Now, your skin has other issues, the least of which is that you have no meters that will display anything. "Measures" return a value (like a measurement or some piece of data read from somewhere), "Meters" show a value or some text (or both). I would suggest (just my preference) you group all your measures together at the top part of the file, and group the meters after them. (All those include templates mostly contain dozens and dozens of measures.) There is a text file provided with the templates that describes what all the measures do.

Obviously you copied some code from some other skin, but if you want to see something happen, then add the following meter after your [MeasureAfternoon] measure:

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[meterConditions]
Meter=String
MeasureName=@CurrentTemperature
MeasureName2=@UnitsTemperature
AntiAlias=1
DynamicVariables=1
FontColor=255,255,255
FontFace=Segoe UI
FontSize=40
SolidColor=0,0,0,1
Text="%1°%2"

Your [MeasureAfternoon] measure makes reference to this meter to set a tooltip. So if you hover your mouse over the temperature, you'll see it. Note there will be a brief delay between when your skin loads and when the data shows up; this delay happens while the weather info is being fetched from the weather.com site.

[Honeysprings]

The reason your skin is not working is that the path to the template "include files" isn't correct. Remember that "#@#" is a special variable that points to the "@Resources" folder. So, your code says...

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@includeVariables=#@#WeatherComJSONVariables.inc
...etc.

...but that is not where you put this file. You placed all the template files in a subfolder named "@IncludeFiles", so what you need for this to work is:

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@includeVariables=#@#@IncludeFiles\WeatherComJSONVariables.inc
...etc.

I suggest you simply move all the files up one level into the @Resources folder instead of nesting them so deeply, but it is entirely your call, it makes no real difference as long as the code references the proper file location.

Now, your skin has other issues, the least of which is that you have no meters that will display anything. "Measures" return a value (like a measurement or some piece of data read from somewhere), "Meters" show a value or some text (or both). I would suggest (just my preference) you group all your measures together at the top part of the file, and group the meters after them. (All those include templates mostly contain dozens and dozens of measures.) There is a text file provided with the templates that describes what all the measures do.

Obviously you copied some code from some other skin, but if you want to see something happen, then add the following meter after your [MeasureAfternoon] measure:

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[meterConditions]
Meter=String
MeasureName=@CurrentTemperature
MeasureName2=@UnitsTemperature
AntiAlias=1
DynamicVariables=1
FontColor=255,255,255
FontFace=Segoe UI
FontSize=40
SolidColor=0,0,0,1
Text="%1°%2"

Your [MeasureAfternoon] measure makes reference to this meter to set a tooltip. So if you hover your mouse over the temperature, you'll see it. Note there will be a brief delay between when your skin loads and when the data shows up; this delay happens while the weather info is being fetched from the weather.com site.

Thank you so much!