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Published: 2013-01-12 16:12:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 6757; Favourites: 21; Downloads: 577
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Hey guys!
After working on my skins for a few months *cough*, I'm finally back with two skins for you!
Firstly I created a small clock for all the Luna-fans out there. Based on the daytime, Luna is sleeping, idling or wide awake. I managed to create a decent background for the skin with rounded edges, and I'm pretty proud of this creation.
Secondly I tried my hands on a webparser, parsing from the famous website "EquestriaDaily", telling you the news directly on your desktop. By clicking on the different news-boxes you are also directly linked to the article at EQD. I also added a small button to minimize the news-parser, if you just want to see the newest post from EQD.
On the other hand the parser is still WIP. From time to time you might spot some html-tags in the text, and as soon as a EQD-post has more than one picture in it, there is no text displayed. (I actually know why this happens, but there isn't much I can do about it, I blame the data-structure of EQD.) So I might update this skin a few times in the future.
Thanks to:
Shachza for the incredible nice looking sleeping Luna - fav.me/d4vqh8e
Fennrick for the idling Luna-Vector - fennrick.deviantart.com/art/Ve…
TheOneWithTheOctaves for the S2 Finale Vector from Luna - theonewiththeoctaves.deviantar…
MrDaviez for the "Raising the Moon"-Vector used in the parser - fav.me/d4pgh4y
And a huge thanks to EQD to be our News-Hub (with horrible Data-structure in their html-code).
UPDATE 1: Removed any debugging-commands: To clear up your data, you might want to delete the log.txt at C:/temp/
Thank you, DonKoopa!
UPDATE 2: After EqD changed a lot of their Code, parts of the News-skin ceased to work (or better: they still worked as they should, but parsed the wrong lines.) I looked into that and fixed everything. At the moment I use an old version of Rainmeter to update, but it should work without any problems on newer versions. I'd apreciate it, if you would use the new version found via the download-button on the right.
UPDATE 3: Ok, I finally managed to update Rainmeter, and now I can offer you an even better version, where all code should be gone. Thanks guys!
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Dear Alpha268,
I'm sorry to bother you; however, my current understanding of Rainmeter is quite limited and there appears to be an error with the LunarNews.ini. The EQD titles are loading properly for me; however, when attempting to load the accompanying text for each header, I receive a part of your code for the web parser text that looks something like this: "
". Would you happen to have any ideas on what I could do to fix this? I really enjoy this skin and if I could use it the way it was intended that would be amazing.
Sincerely,
Johnbs7
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Hey,
there you are!
I finished the work on the skin, and you can download the new version. (The new EqD-Website added some headers to their posts, and that was what you have seen in the program, as it read out that lines instead of the content of the blog. I added some RegExp to filter them out.)
Sincerely,
Alpha268
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Oh, well, thanks for your kind words.
I think the recent updates to the main-site on EQD screwed up some parsers I used in the script. Im going to look into that, probably around the next days, so stay tuned.
Regular Expressions, here I come!
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The origional coding made her sleep at noon, so I flipped the ABOVEVALUE with the BELOWVALUE as well as ABOVEACTION wtih the BELOWVALUE, and it worked perfectly!
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Really? That's surprising, I was pretty sure that everything was alright...
I'm going to give it a closer look, since I started working on another skin recently, which might be uploaded in a few days.
Greetings
Alpha268
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No, I figured it out, I was thinking illogically... she was asleep during the day because she is the princess of the night... I've figured it out...
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Haha, and was worrying about having released a buggy rainmeter-skin.
But nevertheless: Thanks for looking into my coded projects, that's the kind of followers I like to have.
I'm going to release another skin with Rainbow Dash soon, it was commissioned, so maybe you'd like to have a look on it too, when it's done.
Greetings
Alpha268
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Yeah! I really like rainbow dash! So I think I will!
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You might want to edit the skin and delete the Debugging stuff...
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I'm not sure how to use or install this file, or what exactly it looks like. Can you link some screen shots and directions plz?
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Firstly download Rainmeter 2.4 Final from this site: [link]
Then install Rainmeter 2.4 on your computer. During the installation you might get asked if you want to link .rmskin-files to Rainmeter. You should accept that.
Now download my skin from DeviantArt. If you linked the .rmskin-file to Rainmeter, all you need to do is open the downloaded file, it should install itself automatically.
Last but not least you have to enable the skin: Open Rainmeter by starting the program (You should see a small water-drop-like symbol at the taskbar). Then click on the skin-file at the left side, browse through LunarClock to the LunarClock.ini or through LunarNews to the LunarNews.ini, and hit the "Load"-Button.
Now you are done.
If you want you can drag the skins across your screens to get it to the wanted position. I wish you much fun with my skins.
If you need any more help, you can visit these sites:
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Or just come back and ask me.
Greetings
Alpha268
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Thanks so much
I was looking for a Luna themed clock for some time now
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Ha, glad to help there!
Let's see who I'll do next... Maybe Rarity?
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I say go for Twilight (my fav main 6)
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Got one request for Apple Fritter, and now another one for Twily. Well, I'll see about that. I like Apple Fritters colorscheme, puts much spring onto your desktop, but I already have an idea for a Twilight clock/CPU meter...
Awww, so many ideas, so less time. I'll make a decision soon.
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Be happy i did not ask you for a commission / request for my OC xD
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Maybe one day... maybe one day... But first let me get better with scripting in Rainmeter, and finish the some other projects before I'll start any commissions/art-trades.
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Nah i did mean a clock/CPU meter of my OC
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Oh, I see. Well even if I would do it, I would probably need more vectors of your OC, and that would mean some work for you, too, right?
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Yes indeed by learning my self to vector or make some extra vector commissions xD
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Good luck with that then, I've heard Inkscape would be an useful tool for that.
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