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UPDATE 1.4.2 - 1.5.2014:+ In the Shut-down/Ship control skin, there has been added a button to put your ship to sleep mode.
+ Discovery finally has it's own trash bin control! You can throw the priceless lassiter in it, crush young jedis in it or just keep your favourite pet dianoga (tentacle monster) there.
(+ Depracated !Execute... bangs have been replaced with the actual ones.)
Tips and FAQ:
- Weather.com has changed the url for the feed so the wheather skin might not work. However, the fix is quite simple. Open the weather skin for editing (in notepad or something similar) and there replace line Url=http://xml.weather.com/weather/local/#Location #?cc=*&unit=#Type #&dayf=3 with this one: Url=http://wxdata.weather.com/wxdata/weather/local/#Location #?cc=*&unit=#Type #&dayf=3
- If you have adjusted your Discovery theme, BACK IT UP before installing new version, as it would probably overwrite your changes.
- If you want to have the 'Verse news skin in your language and it is not currently supported, go to news.google.com and select your language. In the web-addres line you should see something like ...news.google.com/?edchanged=1&ned=nl_be&authuser=0. You will need the underlined value from "ned=..." Then go to the News folder (My Documents/Rainmeter/Skins/Discovery/News) and open the "Verse-news.ini" file in the Notepad. Go all the way down and copy or owerwrite the last meter. Put some code for your country in the square brackets (i.e. "BE" for Belgium), set your country name in the text="..." and in the LeftMouseUpAction=[!WriteKeyValue Variables NewsLang "nl_be" "#@#variables .inc"][!WriteKeyValue Variables NewsPlanet "BE" "#@#variables .inc"][!Refresh] change the underlined parts with the code from Google news and with a short code for your country. Save it, reload and enjoy
- Sometimes setting the weather location code in the Welcome screen doesn't work. If that happens to you, go to the Resources folder (My Documents/Rainmeter/Skins/Discovery), open in the Notepad variables.inc, put it in the Location=... and save.
- If you don't see your Windows user icon in the right corner, simply opent Start menu and click on your icon on it's top right part (or open the manager of your windows accounts) and it should appear (the icon will probably show only on Windows7, the other Windows have it probably located elsewhere so you would have to change the path in the ini file).
- To be able to use the music skin together with VLC player you will need to set the "CAD" to in the settings screen for the player and you will need a libcad plugin. You can find the version for VLC 2.1.x here rainmeter.net/forum/viewtopic.โฆ (look for Poiru's answer and follow his instructions).
Original description
So, I was browsing through the rainmeter section here and I have found out that most of space themes are actually just two or three another skins combined togehter (however, they look pretty cool very often
The Discovery 1.4
Welcome to the space program Discovery
The space program Discovery will turn your computer to the cutting-edge space ship that will carry you to the stars.
It will bring a wide range od data about your ship to your screen; from the essentials like fuel tank capacity for two or three tanks (used disk space), CPU and RAM status, the level of your energy source or your current mission summary, to the supporting ones like current space-weather conditions, network connection or intercepted space transmissions (music player).
It also supports you with the main data about up to three shuttles you can dock on your ship (external drives), allows you to access them quickly and send them away from your main ship.
The space program Discovery also brings all the main command controls to your screen, so you can easy acces the ship computer, control the ship sound system, opent popular Blue Sun Office Word, acces your favourite galactic network browser or seach the galactic net from your screen without even opening them. With only one button you can land with your ship (turn off your computer), restart all the ship systems (restart computer) or leave the cockpit (log off).
The latest upgrades enriched the Discovery with the quantum-mail-client able to communicate with the popular G-mail and with the latest Galactic news from whole the 'Verse and 12 selected planets (in their native language).
Should you find that you have your programs located in a different folder, you should be able to change the setup by altering a single line of code in the given .ini file.
NOTE: If you have screen resolution 1920x1080, you will have to rearrange all the widgets and you should use the HD-variants of skin (if available) and background. Also, the HD variants should be used only with the HD background and with the screen resolution 1920x1080.
What it can do and shows:
- All that funny things like CPU and Ram usage, capacity of your disks (two or three), network upload and download, your IP address, current time and date, name of your ship... I mean computer, it's model designation, your OS type, your user name and icon, how long is your PC up, if you are using a battery of are plugged-in, how much energy is there left in you battery.
- Also can show you info about up to three external drives (capacity, theiry label and name) and easily allows you to acces them or disconnect them from your desktop.
- There is a music player showing your current track, album and interpret. It also allows you to open the player by clicking on the album picture and it shows the volume of your player. (On the bottom right corner, you have another volume controll, that controlls the pc speakers.)
- There is also a weather measure that shows you today and tomorrow weather conditions and temperature (frankly, I don't need any other weather info). By clicking the weather icon, you will be sent to the webpage with more weather info. There are also available verisions without icons and with the info on the left or right side.
- Mail meter in the right top corner shows you how many unread mails you have, however, it works with some mail client in your PC like Thunderbird or Outlook and now there is also a versioni for the g-mail.
- On the top, you can see icons for accessing This computer and My Documents from the desktop and icons for launching photoshop, popular Blue Sun Office Word - Microsof Office, I mean - and for Origin of universe and Nebula Steam. Of course there are also icons for launching all the popular web browsers - Galactic Safari, Space Opera, Star Explorer, Planet Chrome and Solar Fox; you can chose how many you want but have to have them installed in your PC, of course - and a device that allows you to search on google witch your default browser from the desktop.
- On the right, there is a field with notes that you can acces and edit by one click.
- At the bottom, there are buttons for logging off, shutting down and restarting your ship.
- In the bottom corners there are skins showing the info about your ship or PC (click the icon to open Start menu) and info about current pilot (click your icon to open the Welcome and Setting screen).
- There is also a brand new 'Verse news skin showing the latest news from the whole 'Verse or one of 12 selected planets (in their native language).
- It includes backgrounds for 1366x768 and 1920x1080 screens.
- And there is a lot of spinning because round things are much cooler when they are spinning
What it hasn't got and doesn't?
- Task bar... pfff who needs that? Well, of course you can still use it, but I recommend to hide it at least so it doesn't spoil your deep space experience.
- Facebook reader... And it will probably never have it because I don't have and use facebook so I couldn't even test it.
- Probably many other things you can think about
What you need to use it?
- Firstly, you will need the Rainmeter which you can get here: rainmeter.net/cms/
- You might want that fancy background which you can get here but it is also included in the theme.
- You will need to download and install this theme (just double click it) and then load it in your Rainmeter.
Credits
- Of course to Rainmeter and Rainmeter forum which has been a great source ofย problems solved even before I had to ask
- There are some icons that reffer to Firefly which belongs to Joss Whedon, Fox, Universal and Browncoats
- Font used is Slider CZ
- It uses two apps by other people: USB disk ejector and OpenStartMenu , that are both included.
- All icons and pictures are my own creations and are available here for you to any non commercial use (as is the Discovery)
- I want to thank to and for testing g-mail skin and to all of you who complained about Discovery or asked for more functions because you helped to make it better
So let the Discovery make you Malcolm Reynolds, Han Solo or J. T. Kirk, take you out to the black, make you boldly go where no Rainmeter user has gone before and that you will not get sick from all that spinning
If you would like to add some other functions or meters to Discovery, don't worry to ask me or make your changes by yourselves.
P.S.: If your PC after the installation reaches the speed of light or jumps to the hyperspace... it is not my fault
Older updates
UPDATE 1.4.1 - 27.3.2014:
+ There has been added glass skins (bottom and top background bars) so you can use the Discovery with a different wallpaper and not be affraid of the vacuum out there
+ The "draggable" option has been "unlocked" for all the skins so you can put therem wherever you wan.
UPDATE 1.4. - 15.2.2014: Finally, here comes an update with some new functions
+ Mail skin now has the G-Mail version! Clicking the mail icon will open webpage with your Google account. Don't foget to set up your login and your password in the Welcome screen. However, the password required is the Google pass for third side software (you should be able to recieve it from your security setting on your Google account).
+ There is also a brand new 'Verse news reader (kindly supported by Google) that shows the latest or the top news in the 'Verse or news for one of 12 chosen planets (countries) and in the native language of selected country. Click the "'Verse news:..." title to chose between the Top, Whole 'Verse and Planet News, click on the "Select planet" to chose your planet of origin and click any of the news to open an original webpage with more info.
+ The Welcome screen has been updated and allows you to set the letters for your fuel tanks and shuttles (hard drives and external disks) as well as the login and password for g-mail skin.
+ Because of the 'Verse news skin, the layout of the Discovery has also been slightly updated. The info from the weather skin has been moved to the left side but there still are both normal and HD version with the info on the right.
+ In the Launcher section it is a little bit easier now to edit the "buttons". If you want to change the title, icon or the path to the launched program, you still need to open the ini file but you can set up those thing in the variable section by changing values for "path", "icon" and "title" (or "browser-path", "browser-icon" and "browser-title").
+ And the description and the picture have been updated too
UPDATE 1.3. - 21.1.2014: So, I have finally updated and managed the updates you invented
+ The background (both of them, still included) are only a nice view to the Space now with just top and bottom margin of the screen of your spaceship (and of course, you can still see the popular hexagons on your glass). The "projected locating circles and sign-lines" (those blue lines and circles) are now incluced as parts of the skins.
+ Fuel capacity / Disk usage - There is also variant for 3-tank machines. The letter for the third disk is set as "E".
+ Disk letters - If you want to change the appropriate letters for your spaceship fuel tanks and shuttles, you can do it (more or less) comfortably in the "Resources" folder in the variables.inc file.
+ Shut-down ship control - There has been added also the "restart" button.
+ Mission info / Notes - The correct encoding was set there so you should be able to read it with all the special characters your language has
+ Clock - Clicking on the digital clock will switch the 24/12 hour mode.
+ Welcome and Setting screen - If you want to change your setting later during your flight with Discovery, all you have to do is to click on your icon in the Pilot skin and the Setting screen will open (You don't need to open the Rainmeter launcher).
+ Launcher - I have addet there icons for Steam and Origin BUT I have set there the default locations because I don't have those things. So if you want that working, you should go to the "Launcher" folder in the "Discovery" and and probably change the path in the "browser-path=...." in the .ini file of either of them.
- Still to do - I still don't know why setting of the weather location code in the Welcome screen doesn't work for some of you
UPDATE 1.2.3. - 30.11.2013: The font name, size and color have been moved to variables.ini file (in the Resources folder) so you could change them all at once if you want the font bigger, brighter or whatever else
UPDATE 1.2.2. - 25.11.2013: Based on your feedback and responses, I altered some minor things. Clicking the weather icon opens your default web browser with the page of more detailed weather forecast. Clicking the percentage at the sound system opens default windows sound management (this might not work for Windows 8 or Vista, as this is done for W7). And in the Resources folder there are requested icons for Steam, Origin and Star Citizen. However, if you want to use them, you need to create your own launcher button WHICH IS SIMPLE because I don't have these things in my pc
UPDATE 1.2.1 5.11.2013: I just realized that the Discovery didn't load automatically after the installation. I am sorry for that, I have just fixed it.
UPDATE 1.2 4.11.2013: Well, before you read my crazy long description, read the news. I have been requested to make discovery for the HD too, so I have slightly adjusted it... Most of skins remain unchanged but those that require special position on the screen (Clock, Weather and CPU and RAM meter) now have the HD variant available. Also...
List of changes in Discovery 1.2
- Updated for HD screen (1920x1080; Clock, Weather and System meters have their HD variant that should be used with HD background, however, you will have to rearrange them by yourselves)
- I have added user-friendly settings on the welcome screen, that will allow you to set all the necessary variables (your location and units for weather forecast, e-mail, music player and background size)... So no more need to rewrite the .ini files! (Unless you have your web-browsers, word etc. installed somewhere else than default.) Also, you don't need to input the user name, it is automatic now.
- The pack now contains both wallpapers for 1366x768 and 1920x1080 screen that you can easily set up on the wellcome screen so you don't need to download them separately. (Of course, you can download just the HD background or the original 1366x768 background if you want.)
(P.S.: Just so you know, I don't have any screen as big as 1920x1080, only my little 1366x768 laptop, so the HD uprgade wasn't tested! However, it should fit well, I tried it in photoshop... You just have to rearrange everything.)
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Comments: 180
Squirrel-slayer In reply to ??? [2013-11-06 16:27:13 +0000 UTC]
Hi! First of all - Thank you very much I am glad there are people using them (even with all those flaws). As I said before, I might do more of them, when I have more time but not now.
For the second - I use Thunderbird and I HOPED the mailmeter would work for the MS Outlook too, so consider yourself an official beta tester However, I also have Windows 7 (with no special tweaks... for this
) and I have there unread mail counter. When I look into the registry I see there only the address that I set as the 'default' account for this computer in Thunderbird. So try to look in your Outlook if there is such possibility... Or try to go to the folder (Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UnreadMail\e-mail you have imputted) in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry if there is the "MessageCount" value or if it is called somewhat else.
As to the opening the application, I am glad you have found your solution. I think it is the simplest possible way. With only "[MeasureMailAppName]" instead of whole path, your computer should try to open the application where it thinks should be the its default location... But who can know what computer are thinking
Also as I said to somebory else before, I don't have any programming skills (I only write simple webpages) so most of the time I only combine good resources and in some cases even don't know how exactly they work This mail meter is based on some sollutions from
I am glad there are people using them (even with all those flaws). As I said before, I might do more of them, when I have more time but not now.
For the second - I use Thunderbird and I HOPED the mailmeter would work for the MS Outlook too, so consider yourself an official beta tester However, I also have Windows 7 (with no special tweaks... for this
) and I have there unread mail counter. When I look into the registry I see there only the address that I set as the 'default' account for this computer in Thunderbird. So try to look in your Outlook if there is such possibility... Or try to go to the folder (Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UnreadMail\e-mail you have imputted) in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry if there is the "MessageCount" value or if it is called somewhat else.
As to the opening the application, I am glad you have found your solution. I think it is the simplest possible way. With only "[MeasureMailAppName]" instead of whole path, your computer should try to open the application where it thinks should be the its default location... But who can know what computer are thinking
Also as I said to somebory else before, I don't have any programming skills (I only write simple webpages) so most of the time I only combine good resources and in some cases even don't know how exactly they work This mail meter is based on some sollution from theRainmeter forum
Thanks for the propper address for the WAN IP, I have corrected it and it will be right with the next upload of Discovery (God knows when). As I really don't need to work with those IPs, I was just happy they showed some numbers that I had seen in my settings and didn't control them much.
And finally answer: Of course it is possible, the real question is whether you want to do it by yourself or want me to do it
If you don't want to wait severall months I would encourage you to try it. From what you have written so far, I gues it will be easy for you. All you have to do is open the Disks.ini file and:
1) In variables add next line with
disk3=your letter
2) In Measures section copy all measures for Disk2 and simply change disk2 to disk3 everywhere in it (not only titles but inside too)
3) In Meters section copy everything from [meterLabelDisk2] to the bottom of the file.
4) In the the new copy, change all the disk2 to disk3 (and [MeterDBack] and [MeterD] to whatever your letter is) so it can read the values from meters you created during step 2 (don't change any pictures, they are same for all the disks)
5) And for your [meterLabelDisk3], [meterValueDisk3] and [meterTotalDisk3] set X=197 and for [MeterRotovadlo3] set X=160 (sorry, I did it before I fully understood the relative positioning).
And it will work... Or you can just use one of the "shuttles", just set the right letter for it
I am sorry, I should have warned you... I talk to much
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ho3in In reply to ??? [2013-11-05 13:19:36 +0000 UTC]
and i have KMPlayer and it seems that this is not support KMPlayer and now what should i do ? it have n't any way to fix that ? please help me
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Squirrel-slayer In reply to ho3in [2013-11-05 14:09:33 +0000 UTC]
Well... I looked at their page and it really isn't supported... But some people on rainmeter forum say it uses the same interface as Winamp so just try to put "Winamp" there and it should work (I hope, otherwise there is nothing I can do since I have no programming skills
)
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ho3in In reply to ??? [2013-11-05 11:59:02 +0000 UTC]
Where can i input my pc icon ? like icon games and apps. where ?
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ho3in In reply to ho3in [2013-11-05 18:14:45 +0000 UTC]
I just have qustion. why your angry . i love your ship computer and i dont use another Discovery
and i fix my icon problem.
sry if i made u angry
sry if i cant speaking english well , becouse my langouge is persion
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Squirrel-slayer In reply to ho3in [2013-11-05 18:43:05 +0000 UTC]
Oh, I am not angry at all When I don't understand question, I get nervous becaue I can't find the best answer. And today I din't understand any question by anybody (not only you). (And I really should concentrate on another things.) I am really happy you like my creation and you want to use it. But I also like to inspire people to do create things by themselves
Rainmeter is great tool for that and I think I will play with it more when I have more time... and maybe make the Discovery better and bigger for bigger screens
It is OK, my language is Czech Just use english and you will get better, it is natural
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Squirrel-slayer In reply to ho3in [2013-11-05 13:26:47 +0000 UTC]
Obviousely, I don't understand any questions today
If you mean "My PC" like "This computer or however it is called - that thing that opens the explorer and you can choose to go to disk C or D or wherever else... you don't need the Windows-one because you can use the Discovery-one (called Ship computer in Launcher folder). However, if you want to use your own, simply turn off the Discovery Ship computer launcher. But if you want to use your own icon and have that rotating madness around it, then you will need to tweak the .ini file. Firstly, put your "My pc" picture (in png, jpg, bmp or gif format) in the Resources folder in the Discovery theme and then go to folder Discovery/Launcher/my-pc, open Ship-computer.ini and here:
[MeterBrowserIcon]
Meter=BUTTON
ButtonImage=#@#pc.png
Change the "pc.png" to the name of your icon.
If you want to be able to some your own icons of another of your software to launch them from Discovery (like the games you mentioned, or Excel or whatever elce), I am affraid I will disappoint you now. Remember this is my only second theme I have ever done for Rainmeter, I am still learning how to make things there... And even though I am begining to have some Idea how it might work, I have other things to work on and simply don't have enough time (which is also reason why I can't make bigger icons for HD variant now). I am not saying "never", just not in near future... But if you are capable of creating your own skins and themes for Rainmeter, you can always try to make it by yourself. Rainmeter is Open source, so is my theme and resources are available in it...
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ho3in In reply to Squirrel-slayer [2013-11-05 18:26:24 +0000 UTC]
i just have qustion why you are angry ? i love your Ship mod and i dont replace with another one.
sry if i made u angry
sry if i chating english bad becouse my langouge is persion.
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Squirrel-slayer In reply to Squirrel-slayer [2013-11-05 13:33:40 +0000 UTC]
Aaaaanndd... just the line below that change "ButtonCommand=[Shell:::..." to "LeftMouseDownAction=[Shell:::..."
See... My brain be not working today
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Squirrel-slayer In reply to Squirrel-slayer [2013-11-05 13:30:00 +0000 UTC]
I just realized that only changing the name of the picture wouldn't be enough...
You would also need to change Meter to "Meter=IMAGE" and ButtonImage to "ImageName=#@#name-of-your-image.png"
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ho3in In reply to ??? [2013-11-01 12:39:30 +0000 UTC]
what about full hd mod ? i need it , Plz creat full hd mod fore that
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Squirrel-slayer In reply to ho3in [2013-11-01 13:15:53 +0000 UTC]
Well, I would love to but I am not sure, it will be possible... I did it for my desktop which is 1366x768 and I didn't make the pictures bigger... However, I will try it but I need you to tell me, what the resolution of full HD is (and be ready that there might be some little differencies in the background)
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ho3in In reply to Squirrel-slayer [2013-11-01 14:33:48 +0000 UTC]
1920*1080 tnQ 4 your answer , i have no problem with little differencies. Very TnQ
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Squirrel-slayer In reply to ho3in [2013-11-01 16:00:26 +0000 UTC]
OK, I will start with it when I finish my current project (probably during a weekend) and then try to do it, but it will take some time
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ho3in In reply to Squirrel-slayer [2013-11-01 19:58:28 +0000 UTC]
no peroblem. TnQ Very Much
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Squirrel-slayer In reply to ho3in [2013-11-04 10:23:45 +0000 UTC]
So, the Discovery 1.2 for HD is done! Or I hope so, I couldn't test it, so this part is up to you Just download the updated file... And don't forget to read the updated part of decription
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Squirrel-slayer In reply to ho3in [2013-11-02 23:34:21 +0000 UTC]
Hmm... correct me, if I am wrong, but only things that need to be redone are Clock, Weather and System (Ram and CPU) - those that have the ring rotating around some object on the background, right? (And the background itself obviously.) Which means that I wouldn't have to redo all those little icons and other stuff...
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ho3in In reply to Squirrel-slayer [2013-11-05 07:49:30 +0000 UTC]
sry i am n't online for 2days becouse of my network crashed . and now i am online i will test it and say that whats that wrong. very thank u for creat that
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Squirrel-slayer In reply to ho3in [2013-11-05 09:15:42 +0000 UTC]
It is OK, I just had some free days so I did it fast You are welcome, I hope it will work
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ho3in In reply to Squirrel-slayer [2013-11-05 11:29:02 +0000 UTC]
But if all of them is more bigger than last version its more better.
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Squirrel-slayer In reply to qubes [2013-10-31 16:19:32 +0000 UTC]
Thank you very much, your Blue planet is looks great too
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FlexableUberMind In reply to ??? [2013-10-30 04:51:22 +0000 UTC]
Really nice. Thank you!
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Squirrel-slayer In reply to FlexableUberMind [2013-10-30 08:39:57 +0000 UTC]
Thank you very much, I hope you will enjoy it
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Squirrel-slayer In reply to Rogers1967 [2013-10-29 21:16:32 +0000 UTC]
Thank you very much
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Squirrel-slayer In reply to DemonizedSilver [2013-10-29 18:03:35 +0000 UTC]
Well, it is real! ... Real Rainmeter skint at least Universe is a big place, perhaps there is some little somewhere that really looks like this.
And thank you for the fav, of course
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