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Altairseven In reply to Quaz1957 [2011-08-23 11:05:47 +0000 UTC]

yeah sure, feel free to do as you need. you've got my permision to include my work as modest as it is.

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Altairseven In reply to Bill28 [2011-08-20 05:11:43 +0000 UTC]

whell. making it call another skin would result in a slow time of response. but if you create more entrys of items in the skins and in the variables files you could add more launchers, and say you want to make this new launchers apear when you click one of the originals items.

what you have to do to make this is make a group with your new launchers, and make it so when you click one of the originals items it shows the sub-launchers, and when your mouse leaves the skin deseapears as the rest of the skin


i'll try to explain it better

as you can se in the skin, every launcher icon has in their options an entry call Group=1 as well as an entry "hidden=1"

the hidden is so they don't show by default.

and then the arrow has this entry: MouseOverAction=!Execute [!RainmetershowMeterGroup 1][!RainmeterRedraw]
that makes it show the entire group 1

and finally the backgroud entry has a command similar to this last one but instead of showing the icons it hides them when your mouse leave the area of the skin

if you follow me until now you might have an idea of what you have to do.

you create 10 more icons entry from 11 to 20 , as whell as the variables in the variables file and the entrys for the apps titles as well, then to the icons entrys you made, make them be a group 2 instead of 1

and put this "LeftMouseUpAction=!Execute [!RainmetershowMeterGroup 2][!RainmeterRedraw]" whitout quotes in the variable of the icon you want to use to show the other ten.

and finally modify the background command so that it looks like this

MouseLeaveAction=!Execute [!RainmeterhideMeterGroup 1][!RainmeterhideMeterGroup 2][!RainmeterhideMeter Arrowhover][!RainmetershowMeter Arrow][!RainmeterRedraw]

so that when your mouse leave the skin the group 2 desapears as well

remember to put well the names of the new entrys you create, the entrys for the text, and the variables in the variables file don't repeat any number.

i hope you can understand and that i had been able to help you. let me know how it goes!!

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Bill28 In reply to Altairseven [2011-08-20 07:16:17 +0000 UTC]

Thanks Altairseven,

Either I didn't follow or we have a misunderstanding. I didn't mean to put 20 icons in one launcher. I wanted to call a new launcher skin from the first launcher skin icon. This would in effect allow an infinite number of calls or icons to be available. Here is a simple diagram:

Launcher 1
ICON1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
| | | | | | | | | |
Laun2 Laun3 Laun4 Laun5 Laun6 Laun7 Laun8 Laun9 Laun10 Laun11
|...| |...| |...| |...| |...| |...| |...| |...| |...| |...|
[-------------EACH WITH A POSSIBLE 10 ICONS FOR 100 TOTAL-----------------]

This would work as follows: Clicking on the first icon in launcher 1 would open a new launcher with 10 more or sub icons. Clicking on any other icon in Launcher 1 would do the same opening a new launcher with 10 additional new icons, if desired. I would like to use your launcher this way so I could have the option of using a Group Title in Launcher 1, with all the attendant data/programs in the sub launcher. For example, I could use an icon in Launcher 1 for Taxes, when clicked a second launcher opens with a single years tax data in each icon (2001 thru 2010).

Sorry for the lengthy explanation. My problem is when I call a new launcher from an existing launcher, it doesn't work. I'm sure I have done this before, but for some reason I can't get it to work now.

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Altairseven In reply to Bill28 [2011-08-20 22:34:57 +0000 UTC]

yes i understand what you meant but as i told you making it call anothers skins whould make rainmeter slow and probable crash the damn thing jaja

you should do everything in the same skin files, without depending of others skins.

using what i whote before you can do that.

make a gropu 2 for the 1°s sublaucher a group 3 for the second sublauncher and so on all in the same skin.
(they dont have to be next to the first launcher make them go below, move the coordenates)

try to read again my previous message and you'll be abl to do it, it's gonna be a tedious job. but not realy that hard

although doing a 100 launchers. it may also slow everything down.

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Altairseven In reply to khangkhong [2011-08-01 03:59:27 +0000 UTC]

you mean use multiple launchers?

if that's the case just copy the skins several times inside the rainmeter skins folders
and then you'll be able to activate them all simultaneaslly

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khangkhong In reply to Altairseven [2011-08-01 10:48:30 +0000 UTC]

tried it and it worked! thanks a lot

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Altairseven In reply to g-Vita [2011-07-12 00:19:13 +0000 UTC]

it shouldn't be too hard. do this:

in the skin file add the following below the [Icon10] tag:

[Icon11]
Meter=IMAGE
ImageName=#icon11#
LeftMouseUpAction=!Execute ["#app11#"]
Y=10
X=#IconDistance#r
Hidden=1
Group=1
MouseOverAction=!Execute [!RainmeterShowMeter APName11][!RainmeterRedraw]
MouseLeaveAction=!Execute [!RainmeterHideMeter APName11][!RainmeterRedraw]

and add this below the [APName10]:

[APName11]
Meter=STRING
MeterStyle=Style
Y=60
X=55
FontFace=#Font#
Text=#app11name#
StringAlign=Left
Stringstyle=#Style#
FontColor=#FontColor1#
FontSize=14
Hidden=1
Antialias=1



NOW GO to the variables.txt and add this at the bottom

;Aplication 11>>>>>>>>>>

app11name=Juegos

app11=J:\Juegos

icon11=Icons\Games.png

and finnaly go to the rainconfigure.cfg and add this <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the [Files] entry

and that should do it

repeat it if you need more than 11 icons.

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Altairseven In reply to Altairseven [2011-07-12 00:20:28 +0000 UTC]

sorry i missed the last part

and finnaly go to the rainconfigure.cfg and add this <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the [Files] entry:
app11
Path Of 11 Launcher
icon11
Icon for 11 Launcher

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sebulbathehut In reply to Altairseven [2017-09-24 14:36:40 +0000 UTC]

Hi, great skin.



edit: sorry sort of skipped over the Spanish reply completely then saw the English part at the bottom

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g-Vita In reply to Altairseven [2011-07-12 04:54:17 +0000 UTC]

funciono de primera! me costo un huevo hacerlo pero encontre los numeros que me faltaban con las "x" y las "y" y hay q cambiar el background xq es muy chiko y no entran los iconos
muchas gracias, yo tam soy de arg de rosario!

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Altairseven In reply to g-Vita [2011-07-12 16:22:02 +0000 UTC]

genial, las x y las Ys, no de te dije porque eran dinamicas (depende cual es dinamica si es horizontal o vertical la skin q usas), es decir, nose si te fiajste q tenian escrito #icondistance#r es la variable q hace q esten a la misma distancia, raro si no te andaba asi.

lo del fondo si tenes razon me re olvide de decirtelo, todo un tema el rainmeter jaja


For every one who can't understand spanish, if you tried what i'd posted bebore and it didn't show properly, make sure you adjust the size of the [backgrond] entry, otherwise the icons that you add, would be "outside" of the part of the skin that is displayed

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Altairseven In reply to WhittlingDesigns [2011-07-09 16:34:16 +0000 UTC]

ye it not hard at all just edit the skin and change "MouseOverAction" under [arrow] to "leftMouseDownAction" and leave the rest of the line untouched

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WhittlingDesigns In reply to Altairseven [2011-07-09 20:20:36 +0000 UTC]

I thought I tried that, but I just did it now and it worked. Thanks again for sharing.

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twice-the-radius In reply to nicopizza [2011-06-13 05:58:43 +0000 UTC]

cool!...
i never thought how much fun would it be to ues rainmeter on a tablet!(just coz i dont have one)!!!!

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Altairseven In reply to nicopizza [2011-06-11 14:14:24 +0000 UTC]

i dont think it would be hard
asuming that that a tablet tc recognises fingers like left buttom mouse

just put edit config and look for:

"[Arrow]
Meter=IMAGE
ImageName=ArrowL.png
...
Hidden=0
MouseOverAction=!Execute [!RainmetershowMeterGroup 1].......[!RainmeterRedraw]"

(the dots is to make things shorter in here)

and change the the "MouseOverAction" for "LeftMouseDownAction" then save, close and refresh the skin

that would make the launcher open when you rouch the arrow and still close when you leave the area, by toching somewere else

tell me if it worked for you??

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Altairseven In reply to Altairseven [2011-06-11 16:19:35 +0000 UTC]

sorry didn't read right, ideally it would be perfect to make it open when you hold your finger in the arrow but i've couldnt find such comands in rainmeter manual, i don't think it can be done that way.

but maybe you could use one of the launcher spaces to open it. or add a text or an icon that apears under the arrow when hover.

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nicopizza In reply to Altairseven [2011-06-11 17:23:48 +0000 UTC]

thanks. i believe i'll edit the config file and use one of the launcher spaces.
anyway, holding finger corresponds to left click.
thanks!

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nicopizza In reply to nicopizza [2011-06-11 17:36:42 +0000 UTC]

done... works just fine! can't use .ico though.

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Altairseven In reply to nicopizza [2011-06-11 18:32:58 +0000 UTC]

glad to have helped you

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