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CountMaxwell: Rainmeter Developer (If I could figure it out)

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CountMaxwell: Rainmeter Developer (If I could figure it out)

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:welcome: Hello, I am CountMaxwell

I'm a teenager with a love for computers and programming (And jazz music :thumbup: ). I began using Rainmeter yesterday, and quickly began understanding how it works. The text files, images, and what not are all extremely simple. But then came my next problem:

How do you program your own Rainmeter skin? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

(Also, I realize this is under introductions, and so I have introduced myself, ^above^.
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Tinker with skins while reading through the 101... :D
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Agreed. I approached it the same way approached website design; Reading the source code and slowly changing/removing different bits of code until I figured out what line of code applied to specific bits of output.

I would recommend starting with a simple clock skin ie, this one

Something without images and other things that way you have a very straight forward starting place and not too much code to rummage through...
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Well, I created a VERY basic Skin. All it has is a task bar with a clock, and a System Info box from the tutorial.
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Then you are well one your way, my earliest efforts involved changing the date format from Jul 9, 2011 to 9 Jul 2011 and took ages to figure out... ;)
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