Skin that loads skins (?)

Felonious · Post by **Felonious** » January 28th, 2011, 6:33 am

New user here. Downloaded the program at the beginning of the week, and I've spent at least two hours tinkering with it every night since.

So I had the idea to create a toolbar with icons that will load skins, just like I've done for my most used folders, .exe's, and .doc's. Is that possible? Obviously .ini files are different, but I was hoping I could find a way to avoid having to open RainBrowser every time or navigate the right-click path. I've tried setting RainBrowser as the default "open with" program, but that didn't work. Is there anyway I can set up some sort of shortcut or quick-launch option on the desktop?

Post by **jsmorley** » January 28th, 2011, 6:35 am

To launch skins from Windows, just create shortcuts with properties like this:

"C:\Program Files\Rainmeter\Rainmeter.exe" !RainmeterActivateConfig ConfigName IniName.ini

To do the same from a skin use this on any meter:

LeftMouseUpAction=!RainmeterActivateConfig ConfigName IniName.ini

Felonious · Post by **Felonious** » January 28th, 2011, 6:44 am

Wow, thanks for the quick response.

Just tried

LeftMouseUpAction=!RainmeterActivateConfig Enigma Notes.ini

to no avail. Any ideas?

Post by **jsmorley** » January 28th, 2011, 6:48 am

Felonious wrote:Wow, thanks for the quick response.

So would I just do something like:

LeftMouseUpAction=!Execute ["C:\Program Files\Rainmeter\Rainmeter.exe" !RainmeterActivateConfig Enigma Notes.ini]

or would I also have to put a shortcut in the new skin's folder?

That would work just fine, although in a skin you don't need the "!Execute" unless you are going to be either 1) running an external application or launching a file with its associated application, or 2) executing more than one Rainmeter "bang" command in the same statement.

So:

LeftMouseUpAction=!RainmeterActivateConfig Enigma Notes.ini

Would work just as well in this case, and would not have to use the resources to shell out and execute Rainmeter.exe.

Felonious · Post by **Felonious** » January 28th, 2011, 6:53 am

Yeah, I just looked back at your post and saw that. Tried it the way you described without any luck. If I have the skin in the subfolder "sidebar," do I have to account for that?

Felonious · Post by **Felonious** » January 28th, 2011, 6:55 am

Nevermind, just got it. Added the folder path Enigma\Sidebar\Notes.

Brilliant. Thanks for the help!

Post by **jsmorley** » January 28th, 2011, 6:55 am

Felonious wrote:Yeah, I just looked back at your post and saw that. Tried it the way you described without any luck. If I have the skin in the subfolder "sidebar," do I have to account for that?

Yes. "ConfigName" will be exactly what is shown for the config in the Rainmeter context menu. It is really a subset of the folder the skin is in, under My Documents\Skins. So My Documents\Skins\Enigma\Sidebar\Notes\Notes.ini is going to look like:

!RainmeterActivateConfig Enigma\Sidebar\Notes Notes.ini

Felonious · Post by **Felonious** » January 28th, 2011, 7:02 am

Awesome! Thanks! I love this program.

Post by **jsmorley** » January 28th, 2011, 7:04 am

Glad to help. Say goodbye to all your free time...

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