.raptor wrote:Editing skins
I will not edit any more skins, since the documentation to do so can be found
here,
here and
here. For any new questions regarding this, i will only redirect to this post, incomplete as it might be.
Since the easiest way to learn this is by editing an already existing skin, I assume we already have a skin for the NowPlaying plugin. Example snippet below.
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[mPosition]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=NowPlaying.dll
PlayerName=Spotify
PlayerType=POSITION
We can see that the measure is the Plugin type, info
here. The documentation says "Plugins have their own specific options that must be placed in the measure section. For more information, refer to the Plugins entry for each.". For the NowPlaying plugin, that would be
here. We can see that both PlayerName and PlayerType is options connected to NowPlaying, so we can remove those. We are also switching to SpotifyPlugin, so we edit the "Plugin=" as well.
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[mPosition]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=SpotifyPlugin.dll
Unfortunately it wont just work like this. We have to look up the documentation for the plugin, that can be found on the
first page of this thread. Seeing it now, i realize it might not be the best documentation around, so an update is probably coming. Either way, we can figure out from the two samples there that "Type" seems to be the correct option. In this case we wanted the position to show, and luckily for us "Position" is an option.
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[mPosition]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=SpotifyPlugin.dll
Type=Position
Repeat this process for all the measures you want changed.
Installing SpotifyPlugin
This is all about finding the location of your plugins folder. If you have a
32-bit version of windows, you want to download the 32-bit zip, and extract it to "Program Files/Rainmeter/Plugins".
If you on the other hand have a
64-bit system, there are two possible options. To figure out where the folder is, we need to find what Rainmeter version we are using.
- Start Rainmeter.
- Right-click the Rainmeter icon in the system tray.
- Click "About".
- Go to "Version".
- The first line now says either 32 or 64 bit.
For 64 bit versions, the plugin folder is at "Program Files/Rainmeter/Plugins".
For 32 bit versions, the plugin folder is at "Program Files(x86)/Rainmeter/Plugins".
Download the zip corresponding with your Rainmeter version, and put it in the plugins folder.
Hope this clears things up.
