[Solved] !RainmeterActivateConfig Syntax

[Seahorse]

It occurs to me that another way of solving a popup issue (negative X values) is to break the Lyrics off into a separate config. I've done this and it works fine. So now all I want to do is launch it from a button in the media player skin.

!RainmeterActivateConfig [Config] [Ini-file]
Activates a new configuration ini-file. The ini-file is just the name of the file; do not include the path.

This seems simple enough, Theme is Cobalt, skins are in directories of their own Cobolt\Lyrics and Cobolt\Media Player

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[MeterLricsButton]
Meter=Button
ButtonImage=#ROOTCONFIGPATH#\Images\LyricsButton.png
X=25r
Y=r
LeftMouseUpAction=!RainmeterActivateConfig #CURRENTCONFIG#\Lyrics Lyrics.ini

Doesn't work, neither do:

LeftMouseUpAction=!RainmeterActivateConfig Cobalt\Lyrics Lyrics.ini
LeftMouseUpAction=!RainmeterActivateConfig Lyrics Lyrics.ini
LeftMouseUpAction=!RainmeterActivateConfig Lyrics.ini

I've waded through four pages of search results some showing full path names, values in speech marks and so on and these don't work either, clearly I am missing something and would appreciate a steer.

[poiru]

First of all, you should always enclose the arguments in quotes to avoid issues with spacing (Media Player without quotes is not equal to "Media Player"). Try something like this:

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LeftMouseUpAction=!RainmeterActivateConfig "Gnometer\Clock" "Clock.ini"

.. where the path to Clock.ini is blaa\Rainmeter\Skins\Gnometer\Clock\Clock.ini.

Also, you #CURRENTCONFIG# expands to the current config. When used in Clock.ini, for example, it would expand to Gnometer\Clock.

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I think a better approach would be to have the lyrics meter hidden, and use:

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LeftMouseUpAction=!Execute [!RainmeterShowMeter "LyricsMeter" "Cobalt\Lyrics"][!RainmeterRedraw "Cobalt\Lyrics"]

Or, if you want the fade effect of ActivateConfig, add "OnRefreshAction=!RainmeterHide" to the lyrics skin and the following from the other skin:

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LeftMouseUpAction=!Execute [!RainmeterShowFade "Cobalt\Lyrics"]

[Seahorse]

I had it working and hidden toggling in the main skin. This works fine for the three edges of the screen the player isn't touching and requires a change of all the X values if you put the player on the right of the screen and want it to popout on the left as I do.

Lyrics as an independent skin doesn't have this issue, though I suspect it might need some #SCREENAREAWIDTH# & #SCREENAREAHEIGHT# love to avoid running off the screen given it's random sizes. Hence my cunning plan to simply launch the second skin with the Lyrics from the media player skin, removing the problem with positioning.

Lyrics.ini as a stand alone skin with Hidden=1 commented out so I can see that it actually runs it launches and runs fine, from right click config menus, so there's my validation of Lyrics.ini, all I need to do now is launch it from the Media Player.ini and use

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Group=Popup
LeftMouseUpAction=!RainmeterToggleMeterGroup Popup

with Hidden=1 restored in the Lyrics.ini to make it vanish by clicking as before.

So using your Gnometer example:

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LeftMouseUpAction=!RainmeterActivateConfig "Cobalt\Lyrics" "Lyrics.ini"

Should launch the lyrics skin, however, it doesn't, I am now looking for spelling issues in folders & filenames...

[Waldensamkeit]

I do something similar with a couple weather skins. I have a small "today" temperature and icon with a simple description and then clicking on the icon will activate the VClouds 2 forecast config. I remember having exactly the same problem and then settled on toggle instead of activate and/or deactivate and everything works fine.

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LeftMouseUpAction=!RainmeterToggleConfig VCloudsWeather2 "VClouds Weather 2 - 2Days.ini"

Took me a while to figure out the quotes. Nothing seemed to work until i put quotes around the name of the .ini only.
Maybe that'll work for you too.

[Seahorse]

Thanks but still works as a stand-alone, but not launching from media skin...

[poiru]

What is the full path to Lyrics.ini? Copy it from Explorer and paste here.

[Seahorse]

E:\Data Files\Rainmeter\Skins\Cobolt\Lyrics

i.e. My Documents lives on E:

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[poiru]

Cobolt != Cobalt

[Seahorse]

ARRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHH!



It's been misspelt since I created it and I never noticed...

..works as intended with the right spelling.

Media player ini:

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LeftMouseUpAction=!RainmeterActivateConfig "Cobolt\Lyrics" "Lyrics.ini"

This works better though:

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LeftMouseUpAction=!RainmeterToggleConfig "Cobolt\Lyrics" "Lyrics.ini"

Lyrics ini:

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LeftMouseUpAction=!RainmeterDeactivateConfig

I'll tinker over the weekend and see if it does the job.

[Seahorse]

Hmm, fires up the lyrics skin fine. If I load another album the media player skin continues to show the previous ones art and details, although the buttons work just fine (play/pause etc). Closing & opening the media player skin skin clears this, though not in all instances. Actually, it breaks as soon as the lyrics skin is toggled a second time in the media player skin. CLosing the lyrics skin and then refreshing the player restores functionality.

Will tinker more...

Two instances of NowPlaying seems to be the cause as it's used by the player and the lyrics skins...