Suggestion - Folder/file reading and displaying

[Wolfram23]

As far as I can tell after searching around these forums as well as looking over many skins, it seems that Rainmeter is not capable of displaying all the items in a folder.

Essentially what I'd like to do is build a "link bar" so that I can clean up my desktop. Currently I added, for example, all my game shortcuts to one folder. It would be awesome if I could simply click "Games" on a skin, and have it show all my games that are in that folder. Possibly even allow showing the icon file, and definitely being able to execute the games from the sub menu.

This would be a great way to clean up the desktop and allow flexibility so you're not constantly modifying the skin every time you add or remove something from a folder.

As it stands now, I'm going to simply have to make it so that clicking "Games" opens the folder with all my shortcuts, but obviously that forces me to use default Windows windows.

[poiru]

This will very likely be possible with Lua soon. Stay tuned

[santa_ryan]

I have a VERY simplistic autoit script that does what your asking for, but theres one problem with it. Its not native rainmeter

Now, if lua can do this with "SetOption" abilities now, It would be absolutely amazing.

In lua it would be something like this:
Read all files of a folder into an array
Go through that array and make a new meter for each file it finds using !SetOption