Hex clock as desktop background

[barmijo4433]

What's the simplest way to turn a desktop into this: http://www.jacopocolo.com/hexclock/#

I tried FontColor=%I,%M,%S,255 and a few other variations but it doesn't seem to work.

I've never worked with rainmeter before.

[FlyingHyrax]

You can do a simple version with Section Variables; demo:

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[Rainmeter]

[Metadata]

[Variables]

[msrHour]
Measure=TIME
Format=%H

[msrMinute]
Measure=TIME
Format=%M

[msrSecond]
Measure=TIME
Format=%S

[mtrClock]
Meter=String
DynamicVariables=1
Text="#[msrHour][msrMinute][msrSecond]"
FontFace=Segoe UI Light
FontSize=20
FontColor=255,255,255
AntiAlias=1
X=0
Y=0
SolidColor=[msrHour][msrMinute][msrSecond]

For getting the formatting just right, check the source of the webpage. All the font styles and stuff are right there, as is the Javascript code in case you're curious.

This version has a little more variety. It's written in flash, so you can't check the source, but it's clearly not just appending the time to create a hex value... something like that in Rainmeter would need to be in Lua.