Opinions are welcome.
Dual monitor setup 3840x1080, used various skins and adapted them to fit the needs, icons are hidden atm for better viewing experience :Pirate: ...and normally on the left screen.
btw: rainmeter rocks.
One question tho: Inspite of the "update"-command itself - is there any way to refresh a skin manually at start?
For example the rss-feed: i want to update it only once per minute to save cpu and web load, but if i set the update to 60000 the feed will appear blank until these 60 seconds have been gone. Is there any way around this?
btw: rainmeter rocks.
One question tho: Inspite of the "update"-command itself - is there any way to refresh a skin manually at start?
For example the rss-feed: i want to update it only once per minute to save cpu and web load, but if i set the update to 60000 the feed will appear blank until these 60 seconds have been gone. Is there any way around this?
Yes. Set the Update= to 1000 in [Rainmeter] Leave that alone. Then all measures will be updated 1 second after the skin starts and every 1 second after that. Now to throttle measures you don't want refreshing that often. This is particularly true of WebParser measures, as you don't want to beat up a web site and end up with your IP address banned.
On the measure that goes out to the web and retrieves the RSS feed add:
UpdateRate=60
P.S. I would use 120 or 300 or 600 myself. Checking a remote website once every minute is just wasteful of resources. Most feeds don't update that often. But to each his own.
i think it is ok when i post this in agas thread... since he showed me rainmeter and shared his skin package with me. i played around with the skins to get into rainmeter codes. i really love it. a great way to be creative and "waste" a lot of time... so here is my current desktop.
i put in some new skins, unloaded some i dont need and tried to write some simple ones myself to learn.i still have a little problem with the foobar cover skin. after a lot of trying it is now working and shows the album cover. but after starting a track the cover shows up, disappears after some seconds and gets reloaded again. i have no idea why? anyone can help me with this? do you need more informations on this issue? will post this again in help forum...
jsmorley wrote: ↑October 5th, 2010, 8:01 pm
Yes. Set the Update= to 1000 in [Rainmeter] Leave that alone. Then all measures will be updated 1 second after the skin starts and every 1 second after that. Now to throttle measures you don't want refreshing that often. This is particularly true of WebParser measures, as you don't want to beat up a web site and end up with your IP address banned.
On the measure that goes out to the web and retrieves the RSS feed add:
UpdateRate=60
P.S. I would use 120 or 300 or 600 myself. Checking a remote website once every minute is just wasteful of resources. Most feeds don't update that often. But to each his own.
Be aware of the distinction between UpdateRate and UpdateDivider. It is explained in that link.
HI JSMORLEY - I am sorry to resurrect an old thread. I am trying to sort out the UPDATE, UPDATEDIVIDER, and UPDATERATE values for my skin and a search led me here. The link is not working - has it moved?