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Published: 2013-06-08 15:01:26 +0000 UTC; Views: 564178; Favourites: 937; Downloads: 161250
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Description
CircuitousTwoRainmeter skins, version 1.0These are simple roundline and string skins - sort of a combination of my older Circuitous and Simplicity Circles skins. The design doesn't lend itself to things like feed readers and calendars, but there are a lot more skins in the suite than are shown in the preview:
Included skins:- Battery monitor
- Hard drive space (x3)
- Disk activity (using PerfMon.dll)
- RAM space
- SWAP space
- Upload traffic
- Download traffic
- Wifi monitor
- Media player control using NowPlaying.dll
- CPU (average load and top process)
- CPU cores (x4) (core load and frequency)
- Recycle Bin (size, item count, auto-empty)
- CPU temperature (either CoreTemp or SpeedFan )
- Time and Date
- Volume control
- Weather (using Yahoo! Weather)
- vertical or horizontal background bar
[screenshot showing all the skins included in the suite ]
Skin settings can be easily changed using the Config.ini skin
Credits:Bernd Montag - Sansation font
Yahoo! Weather - weather data
smurfier - Lua wizard
Kaelri - @include-fu
jsmorley - RegExp guru
gronostajo - SimplyRound skin
lalibi - Etheldrede Pantone
amc242 - beta tester
ionstorm01 - beta tester
More info/Help me/How to:Try the ReadMe file first. You can open it from the Config.ini skin, and it is located at right in the skin root folder.
I also am maintaining a "FAQ" journal entry for these skins, for answers that I expect to repeat a lot or for semi-complicated things that need a long answer.
If the ReadMe and FAQ don't cover it, then fire away in the comments - I'll answer any question I can.
Many thanks everyone who helped beta test these skins, and I hope you all enjoy the final product. As usual, bug reports, feature suggestions, and constructive criticism are all greatly appreciated.
Hyrax out.
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Comments: 235
First check out the "Appearance.txt" file in the "@Resources" folder. There are some variables in there that might change what you're looking for. The "ReadMe.rtf" file has an "Advanced Configuration" section that describes what all the different variables do and shows examples of how to change them.
If you can't get the effect you're looking for using Appearance.txt, then look at the files in "@Resources\Styles" - this is where the MeterStyles are specified that all the skins share, especially "common.inc", which applies all the time regardless of the skin orientation (left or right). You'll probably want to make backups before changing anything, but the skin layouts and appearance are pretty much entirely controlled through common.inc.
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Very good skin, congratulations for the work. Might it add uptime? Gracias Thanks
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When adding the Dn/Up load traffic it lags my system?
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Extremely well done! Thanks for sharing
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nice skin but sometimes Media player control freezes but i like the skin.
hows my desktop ? mepremjith.deviantart.com/art/…
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I want to change the temperature from Celsius to Fahrenheit. How do I do this? I'm using CoreTemp.
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The skin just parses Core Temp's data, so you'll need to change that setting in Core Temp: Options > Settings > Display > Display Temperatures in Fahrenheit. Then edit the 'Text' line in the '[mainText]' section of CoreTemp.ini to read 'Text="%1°F' instead of 'Text="%1°C"'
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I can't click on any of my widgets and get access to the configure menu any more. how can I uninstall the program? can't find the main file I need. Plus it won't let me delete it as I'm currently using it.
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This sounds like it might be more of a Rainmeter usage issue than a Circuitous Two skin issue...? The Rainmeter context menu is accessible by right clicking on the program's icon in the taskbar system tray whenever the program is running. You can uninstall it like any other standard Windows application, through Add or Remove Programs in the Control Panel.
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I'm currently having trouble changing the "title" of your mediaplayer
Currently the player looks like this and I want to change the 0:00 to "spotify" but can't seem to find the right thing to change, what would I change?
Thank you for your help
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In the skin file, find the [mainText] section and change 'Text="%1"' to 'Text="spotify"'
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That didn't work for me, it is still is the 0:00 :^(
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My bad, I missed something. In order to switch the text between the time and the word "closed" when the media player isn't open, the text is being set by a bang. You'll also need to edit the IfAboveAction in mStatus, so instead of '[!SetOption mainText Text "%1"]' it contains '[!SetOption mainText Text "spotify"]'
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Quick question. What is meant by the media player name? This reads like a dumb question, but I'm actually having trouble making it work.
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Sorry for the incredibly late response! In case you still need an answer, check here: docs.rainmeter.net/manual/plug… The NowPlaying plugin needs to know what media player program you use, because it asks for media information/sends controls differently for each.
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Hi I love this skin but for a week I've been trying to modify the message "cpu" and put "CPU:"
I tried to change it here:
[mainText]
Meter=STRING
MeterStyle=mainTextStyle | mainTextCommon
MeasureName=mCPU
Percentual=1
Text="CPU: %1%"
LeftMouseUpAction=["taskmgr.exe"]
But does not work here. At the same time works perfectly here changing "top" for "Top:"
[subText]
Meter=STRING
MeterStyle=subTextStyle | subTextCommon
MeasureName=mTopProc
Text="Top: %1"
ToolTipText=%1
I hate to ask but I need to know if there is any way to get change this value as "X% vol" and display "Vol: X%"
Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you in advance.
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I apologize for the incredibly late reply! I neglected to check DeviantArt for several weeks.
General answer - the string case is forced to lowercase by the one of the MeterStyles, which are in another file.
Specifically, look in "@Resources\Styles\common.inc" for the "[mainTextCommon]" section, and you will see a "StringCase=Lower" option. You can change the option to something else to force the case on all the skins, or just get rid of it completely. (docs are here: docs.rainmeter.net/manual/mete… )
Sorry for the frustration!
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This is PERFECT! Just what I need!
Actually, wanted to keep the 2 bars, as I changed the Height and Weight to first monitor. Now trying to make the same skin as a standalone version to add another one xD (Don't worry, just for me)
Great Job man!
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Is it possible to have the download be measured in bits instead of bytes? Thank you.
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There isn't a setting for it, but you can add some Calc Measures to the network skins to do this very easily.
Something like this:
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[mDownloadRaw]
Measure=NetIn
Interface=0
[mDownload]
Measure=Calc
Formula=mDownloadRaw * 8
[mDownloadPercent]
Measure=Calc
Formula=mDownload/#downloadMax#
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You can either change the value of downloadMax in settings.txt to be in bits, or change [mDownloadPercent] to "Formula=mDownload/(#downloadMax#*8)"
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I absolutely love this skin, I've been using it for a long time now. <3
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Hi, Is it possible to make the temperature/speedfan pie graph measure from a certain range rather than just a percent of max? such as from 25-70 degrees? etc?
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Sure! You just need to edit the formula in the [mPercent] section of SpeedFan.ini; as long as that formula returns a value between 0.0 and 1.0 the pie graph will scale accordingly. So for example you could do something like 'Formula=(mTemp-25)/(75-25)' to get a percent in that range. (Though, I'm not totally sure what would happen if/when the temp went below 25...)
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I want to delete the pie charts so I delete this line:
@include5="#@#sharedMeters.inc"
But when I delete that from the weather skin, the subtext disappears too. Is there any way to keep the subtext but get rid of the the pie chart? That method works with other skins.
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Unfortunately I can't replicate the problem you are having; if I delete that line in the weather skin, I get this: i.imgur.com/hH4Cd8u.png
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If you delete that line and:
[pie]
Meter=ROUNDLINE
MeterStyle=roundlineCommon | pieCommon
the subtext disappears with the chart
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Solved it! Sorry it took me so long to get around to this; haven't had much spare time and it took me a while to figure it out. It's simple though.
TL;DR - add DynamicWindowsSize=1 to the [Rainmeter] section in the weather skin.
The problem is that there is a delay between the skin loading and when WebParser retrieves the subtext, so the subtext ends up being positioned outside the bounds of the skin window. DynamicWindowSize solves the problem by forcing Rainmeter to recalculate the skin window size and include the new string meter content.
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Aha! I see, you're quite right, it definitely does. And... I have no idea why. I can't see a single relevant difference between that skin and the others; it should work exactly the same. I'll have to take another look and get back to you.
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Does anyone know if there's a skin for brightness control similar to the one for volume control in this skin?
FlyingHyrax Is it possible for you to add it to this suite. There's not a single one i could find anywhere!
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Hi utkarshphirke ,
A brightness control skin would be very cool, good idea! Unfortunately, it doesn't look like there is a consistent way to set the screen brightness in software on Windows - screen brightness is a physical setting, so any software that actually changes it has to communicate with your graphics hardware. Other software just adjusts the gamma - which will wash out or darken your screen, but not actually change the brightness. Until there is a Rainmeter plugin that can do this, it isn't really possible, and even then it wouldn't be supported on every machine.
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When I click the download button it won't start. Any way to fix this?
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That's either a problem with DeviantArt or your web browser - so unfortunately I can't help much there.
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Is there any way I can Change the 'Orientation' of just one of the circles, without changing all of them?
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Hi thummel1, I replied to the note you sent. Let me know if you have other questions.
(Short answer for the benefit of anyone browsing the comments - it's in the ReadMe under "Advanced Configuration".)
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Hi! I love pretty much everything that you have designed, but I'm having some trouble with the weather function..
I've placed my woeid for Vancouver, Canada (9807) in the config.ini but the temperature comes out as (for example when it is 2 degrees Celsius) "2?2". Changing it to Fahrenheit would give me "36?2". The subtext below it (i.e. "cloudy") is fine though.
Can you help me out? I haven't touched the coding or anything and I've tried reset all a few times already. Everything else works awesomely
Sorry if this is a noob question! Just started using rainmeter a few days ago!
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Haha nvm found out how to fix it! For some reason "°C" was "?2" in the coding stuff; just had to do a simple switch and replace.
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Well thank goodness you figured it out; when I logged on and read your original comment I wasn't sure what to tell you.
It *sounds* like a character encoding issue - weird things can happen if (for example) your editor saves the file in an encoding different from the original... but that usually only affects special characters like the degree sign.
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Props. I'll be incorporating some of these with the few I use from Circuitous.
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Hey! Great work, I'm using several of these elements on my desktop. Just one quick question: is it possible to display the vertical and horizontal bars at the same time? Whenever I activate one, the other just disappears.
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Nevermind, figured it out, kind of. Still, great work on the circles!
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Thanks friend! Re: Bars, you can't load them b/c they are variants (in the same folder). So off the top of my head, you ought to be able to just cut and paste one of the bar skins into a new folder so the structure is like:
.../CurcuitousTwo/_bars/horizontal.ini
.../CurcuitousTwo/_bars2/vertical.ini
Then you can load them together.
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That worked, thank you very much! I had fixed it in a decidedly more crude way, by simply downloading one of your earlier works (Simplicity Circles) and using one of those bars :-D Thanks again for the quick answer, appreciated.
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my weather widget is not working with woeid, it shows nothing, how can i get it working i'm trying it with 2211387 id.
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Hi summersyed,
2211387 is working fine for me: i.imgur.com/FDf9voy.png
There must be something else going on to cause the skin to not work. Do other skins that use WebParser work okay for you?
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I got all giddy like a little girl when playing with the config! Hahaha
I check the code and it's so clean!
You are definitely talent.
I can link things together but it takes me a lot more time and my coding gets really messy lol
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Lol, thanks ~Ekojain
Practice makes perfect, and taking apart other people's skins is a great way to learn... I definitely recommend dissecting things by ~Kaelri , =smurfier , and ~jsmorley (just the first few people I thought of). They're real pros and I learned a ton of stuff from their skins.
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