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JaymanLegend
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Help with a plugin

Post by JaymanLegend »

So I have a music play skin that I am trying to modify. Right now it shows my iTunes songs and it has the ability to go forward backward and play/pause. What I want to do is modify it so that when I click the album art it will restore iTunes for me. Can anyone help me with this?
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Chewtoy
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Re: Help with a plugin

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I don't use iTunes. But the commands for the plugin can be found here: http://rainmeter.net/cms/Plugins-iTunes
As I can see, the one you might be interested in is the Power command.

Power - open/close iTunes instance
Now, I'm not sure how this will work, might close iTunes if it's already open. And that i guess you don't want.
So what you might do if Power don't work is have a bang that opens iTunes.exe but this might open another instance of iTunes.

Those seem to be the options you have as far as I can see.
More info on how to make the button-part -> http://rainmeter.net/cms/Bangs & http://rainmeter.net/cms/Tips-LaunchSpecialFolders
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JaymanLegend
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Re: Help with a plugin

Post by JaymanLegend »

Thanks man I got it work. Here is what I did for anyone else looking for help on the topic.

I added this measure:
[MeasureShow]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=Plugins\iTunesPlugin.dll
Command=ToggleiTunes

Then I added this as the last line of where the skin placed the artwork (which is what I wanted to use as the button to show iTunes):
LeftMouseDownAction=!execute [!RainmeterPluginBang "MeasureShow"]

I hope this helps someone else at some point too.
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Re: Help with a plugin

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Ah. Lookie there. Missed that one.
Glad you got it working. :)
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