Need help making skins.

[speedracerjohn23]

I'm following the tutorials on the rainmeter website and I go to load the skin and nothing works. I type all the codes word for word and I saved the file as a .ini. any idea what i might be doing wrong?

[jsmorley]

Be sure that after you create a new skin in Rainmeter and put it in the right place in My Documents\Rainmeter\Skins\YourFolder\YourSkin.ini that you do a "Refresh All" of Rainmeter from the right click context menu in the system tray. Then load the skin in Rainmeter using the context menu or RainBrowser.

[speedracerjohn23]

I just tried that and it still doesn't work.

[speedracerjohn23]

This is the tutorial i'm was doing http://rainmeter.net/cms/Rainmeter101-Tutorial1

[jsmorley]

Sure you have things in the right place?

"Basically, just head over to "My Documents" and look for the "Rainmeter" folder. In there you'll find the "Skins" folder. Once you're in there, make a new folder. Call this folder whatever you like. Within this folder make a new text document and call it whatever you like. Make sure that the text document's file extension is ".ini" and not ".txt". There you have it. You now have a brand new, albeit empty, skin. If you right-click the Rainmeter icon in the taskbar and choose "Refresh All", your new skin will be available for use. Don't start it up yet though, it doesn't do anything!"

Then just type in or copy the skin file from http://rainmeter.net/RainCMS/sites/default/files/Alex2539/raintut1_systemmonitor_zip_65808.zip and then refresh Rainmeter. Following the tutorial and typing it in would be best of course.

[speedracerjohn23]

Here is what i did maybe you can what i did wrong.


[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
Author=Your Name
BackgroundMode=2
SolidColor=#Color1#
;Metadata added by RainBrowser
;http://rainmeter.net/cms/Rainmeter101-EditingSkins

[Metadata]
Name=
Config=
Description=
Instructions=
Version=
Tags=
License=
Variant=
Preview=

;End of added Metadata

[Variables]
Color1=0,0,32,128
Color2=255,255,255,255
Color3=0,0,0,128
[MeasureCPU]
Measure=CPU

[MeasureRAM]
Measure=PhysicalMemory

[MeasureSwap]
Measure=SwapMemory
[MeterCPUText]
Meter=String
MeasureName=MeasureCPU
X=5
Y=5
W=105
H=15
FontColor=#Color2#
Text="CPU: %1%"
AntiAlias=1

[MeterCPUGraph]
Meter=Line
MeasureName=MeasureCPU
X=r
Y=15r
W=100
H=50
SolidColor=#Color3#
LineColor=#Color2#

[MeterRAMText]
Meter=String
MeasureName=MeasureRAM
X=r
Y=5R
W=100
H=15
AutoScale=1
FontColor=#Color2#
Text="RAM: %1B"
AntiAlias=1

[MeterRAMBar]
Meter=Bar
MeasureName=MeasureRAM
X=r
Y=15r
W=100
H=35
SolidColor=#Color3#
BarColor=#Color2#
BarOrientation=HORIZONTAL

[jsmorley]

Works perfect for me, just as you have it.

I think we are still missing something in the early "create the file" part or in refreshing Rainmeter after you create the file.

Are you able to load the skin? Does Rainmeter see it when you use the right click context menu in the system tray and select "Configs" then find the folder you created to put the skin in? What happens when you load it?

[speedracerjohn23]

when i click the context menu it shows up in there but when i click on it nothing happens when i load it.

[jsmorley]

when i click the context menu it shows up in there but when i click on it nothing happens when i load it.

Try restarting Rainmeter, then load it and see what it does.

[speedracerjohn23]

hmmm funny now it works when I did that. thats weird.