rainmeter skinning problems..

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decided to finally tackle rainmeter today...... im using elemenal queen as the backdrop, so far so good,

i have the analog clock in place ect

my problem is weather, id like weather there, i downloaded the abp skin that has weather,

can i put all the ini stuff from the weather into the clock ini? i tried it, but didnt get very far,

why does every ini have to have a seperate folder, this is so anoying.

so far i cant get further than the clock.

and i know copying and pasting ini's is wrong, but so far its just an experiment as i got no idea what the f*k im doing...

any help would be appreciated.

 

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

You can merge the weather skin and the clock, but it would require modifying the code quite a bit to make it work correctly.  Also be careful if the skin your copying code from uses @include=whatever.  You probably need to include that in your skin too. 

If you could explain a bit more what you're trying to do, then I could give some more specific advice.

There's some tutorials on the Rainmeter website.  I've also written a few tutorials over at deviant art.  They start out pretty basic and get a bit more complicated.

http://rainmeter.deviantart.com/blog/30223890/

Workshop 2

Weather

@include

Autoscaling

 

Edit: links work now :|

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

thanks Varelse, ill check out those tuts now xxx

Sins of a Solar Empire II
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

/me hates code...................  B[]

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting BoXXi, reply 3
BoXXi hates code................... 
End of BoXXi's quote

You'll never make awesome Rainmeter skins with that attitude :)

 

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

hehe.... then it's a good thing I'm never going to make one then!! :)

 

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

BoXXi can fool you. |-)

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

basically  i wanted the weather icons images, sunny, cloudy ect (i have the default yahoo ones that abp used but i will be going over those and making my own images)

i also would like the temperature to be shown, and also, a button so people can get the right weather code for their country ect....

 

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

That should be pretty easy.  Most of that is covered in the weather tutorial. 

As for the weather code, that is a bit more difficult.  Rainmeter can't do that natively.  I know poiru made a small program that found it for the user, but I don't know which sites it work for.  GetWLC

 

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Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Kitty, you could always use THESE

Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Varelse, i checked out your weather tut, but it was really confusing for me... im a very slow learner, maybe you can help me with the codex..

and if you want, can you pm me your email addy and ill send you the files i have for my rainmeter and you might be able to see what im trying

to achieve.... i truly need help with the codex, after that, i should be okay,,,,,,,i HOPE !