OneTicker - Date and Time, Web feed, Weather and Local text file

nek · Post by **nek** » January 10th, 2023, 6:17 pm

OneTicker

What is OneTicker?
- OneTicker is a Rainmeter skin for Microsoft Windows.
- It displays Date and Time, Web feed, Weather and Local text file.
- It displays several Web feeds in OneTicker.

What isn't OneTicker?
- It is not a clock.
- It is not a stock ticker.

Preview

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Download

📦 OneTicker.rmskin (1.23 MB, GitHub.com)
SHA256 292c8d34c7b7ec5b6bc02fc83272926cb8e8d485f34150b7c364c2160da892be

Documents

📙 OneTicker Home

📝 Adding Web feed URL, Weather location, Date and Time, Local text file

1. Menu > Sources > Open Sources folder
2. Create a text file. (example.txt)
3. Open the file and add data sources. One source per line.

Examples

Web feed https://news.yahoo.com/rss

Date and Time %#x %H:%M @see 📗 Time measure Format code

Weather 40.7766,-73.9701 @description Right-click on the location point of the Google Maps and copy the code.

Local text file C:\Users\Public\Documents\todo.txt @description absolute file path, UTF-8 or ANSI encoded file.

4. Save text file then Menu > Sources > example ✔️
5. Menu > Refresh skin

💡 The default location of the skin installed.
C:\Users\%UserName%\Documents\Rainmeter\Skins\OneTicker
Data source folder is...
C:\Users\%UserName%\Documents\Rainmeter\Skins\OneTicker\Sources

⚙️ Settings are saved in
OneTicker\Config.inc
OneTicker\@Resources\Languages\Preferences.#LOCALE_NAME#.inc

🔍 Skin resizing, scaling

Drag and drop the edge of the skin to change the skin width.

1920x1080 monitor size.
Menu > Sytles > Choose from Small/Medium/Large/Extra-large
Menu > Sytles > Font size > Select what you like.
2560x1440, 4K monitor size.
Menu > Settings > Skin scaling > Select what you like.

💡 If you are using a high resolution monitors like 2560x1440(WQHD), 3840x2160(4K), you might need to follow the few steps.
Excluding the Rainmeter.exe from Windows automatic scaling

Changelog

2023-02-02 (YYYY-MM-DD)
* Fixed a possible WebParser stop working while skin first loading.
2023-01-21
+ Added Validity period settings for Web feed. Menu > Settings > Web feed time range
* Changed Blocking Web feed, Speech pattern matching method are used by regular expression.
- Removed Roboto font.
2023-01-11
Initial release.

Acknowledgments

App
Rainmeter by Developer team, Brian, jsmorley, Community
Plugins
ActionTimer, RunCommand by Brian
Speech by jsmorley
ConfigActive by jsmorley and TheAzack9
Mouse.dll by NighthawkSLO
Library
xml2lua by manoelcampos
json.lua by rxi
Addon
nircmd.exe (64 bit) by NirSoft, SHA256 7160db2b7a6680480e64f0845512d203a575f807831faf9a652aaef0988f876c
filever.exe (32 bit) by Microsoft, SHA256 FF361B98D12F9E1B0F16AAF6248C0431BBDA7AA49912521C6865DFE68C675F30
Fonts
tabler Icons by Paweł Kuna
Material Icons by Google
Code
Advanced custom skin context menus by jsmorley
Win10 AppliedDPI Registry Value for Scaling (Single Monitor) by eclectic-tech
Easing math functions by https://easings.net