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Packaging Skins The whole purpose of Rainmeter Workshop is to get people who would not otherwise create their own skin to do just that. But some of them may ask,"But, Varelse, I have this totally awesome skin/ suite/compilation of skins (that aren't mine but I'm uploading anyway), and I don't know how to package it so others can download it." Skin packaging is relatively easy no matter the complexity of the skin/suite. 1. Organize the skin folder. The folder might include addons, fonts, lots of images, etc. Each should go into their own seperate folder. A common way of doing this is to use a resource folder like the one in Enigma and Omn

iTunes CAD This is a simple iTunes controller.  The coding isn't anything too different from the other tutorials and is rather straightforward, so I'm not going to go in depth on a lot of things. Got an idea for a tutorial?  Suggest it in the comments. I'm going to start mirroring these on my user page so people don't have to sift through dozens of other blog posts to find them.  They just won't have Bendenfield's awesome CSS.  Also, credit to Kaelri because some of the code is 'borrowed' from enigma. " [Rainmeter] Author=Varelse Update=1000 [Variables] BGCOLOR=0,0,0 COLOR=255,255,255,200 COLOR2=255,255,255,50 ;Measures----------------

One of Rainmeter's most useful feature for suite creation is the include (https://www.deviantart.com/include) statement. This single line allows all the skins across your future suite to share the same exact code, allowing global changes with just the edit of one file. It also cuts down on redundant code. The most common use of include (https://www.deviantart.com/include) is global variables. This allows a user (or developer) to customize or change the variables of the suite easily. It also works very well with RainConfigure (or similar program). But it's more powerful than that. Styles and measures can be used too. Meters can also be used, but they are rendered last, making them on top of everything else. I wo

DOWNLOAD SKIN The Orbital Clock displays the time in the circles as well as moves the circles around an orbit like the hands of a clock.   One of the awesome things about Rainmeter is the Calc measure.  It allows you to do some really cool things.  In this case, move meter around the skin based off of time.  The skin is a little heavy on algebra and trigonometry. This isn't a math lesson, so I'm not going to go too terribly in depth on the equations used. [Rainmeter] Author=Varelse Update=1000 [Variables] BGColor is the background color of the 'hands'. BGColor=255,255,255,100 RH is the orbit radius of the Hours.  RM is the orbit radiu

I'm very pleased with the encouragement that the first Rainmeter Workshop got. I'm even happier with people's questions and requests. Last time I was asked to do a Winamp skin, talk more about String meters, and elaborate on measures. If you want me to cover a topic, just ask in the comments. Without further ado: Winamp Skin Tutorial I'll skip the introduction and the basics this time since I covered them pretty well last time. This skin demonstrates using Plugins, drawing circles, using Calc measures. I'll also talk more in depth about using measures and String meters. This is a much more complicated skin than last time. Every Winamp skin

RAINMETER WORKSHOP When I first started using Rainmeter I scoured Deviant Art for skins that fit what I was looking for. I didn’t find any. So I ended up dissecting skins, reading the help file, and discovered that it’s not nearly as complicated as it looks. The goal of this series is to show how easy it is to make your own skins. I’ll be showing simple skins and code and talking about everything from basic skin creation to some of the more complicated things you can do with Rainmeter. MAKING A NOTES SKIN The skin I’ll be demonstrating is probably the simplest notes skin you can create. The skin is fundamentall

Making a Weather Skin or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Webparser This is a simple weather skin that shows the current weather using MSN Weather. The other major site used is Yahoo Weather. The measures are from Poiru's upcoming Gnometer suite. [Rainmeter]-Same old, same old [Rainmeter] Author=Varelse Update=1000 [Variables]-The first three variables are used to set your location, hi or lo temperature, and what units the temperature is to be displayed in. weather.LH-valid values for this are Hi or Lo. WeatherCode is the most important variables. It is used to find your location. Go to MSN Weather, and set your location. Look for