Rainmeter now playing skin skin#
Rainmeter now playing skin tv#

Rainmeter now playing skin skin#

I downloaded the 'Evereader' lua-based RSS reader skin and installed it. The only other gadget I'm looking to replace is the WHS 'shortcut' gadget the shortcuts will be a snap but I really like the animations that the original has and I'm not even sure if that can be replicated in Rainmeter or not. but you could spend waaaaay too many hours customizing your desktop with this thing (I actually spent most of my time before today trying to get a 'now playing' skin for Spotify working to my satisfaction it's not quite there yet but I'm waiting to hear back from the guy who scripted a 'marquee' solution for scrolling text.) I'm not finding it quite as awkward as I did a few years ago. And in my case, learning enough regexp to shoot myself in the footДЄs far as Rainmeter programming - it's a pretty primitive scripting 'language' where everything is either a Measure (e.g. The 'hard' part of a skin is using the x-y coordinate system to get the placement of every little thing right and using whatever core functions are available for getting a hold of the data. In this case, I didn't have to lift a finger to make the skin fit in with the theme which came with that nice transparent sidebar, etc. A theme can define the font style, colors, background images, etc. Rainmeter actually makes the appearance part pretty nice and easy since a 'skin' (which is the gadget) runs under a 'theme' and that's where most of the heavy lifting is done. Will have something fairly solid (with or without a Lua parser) by the end of the weekend I imagine. Dynamically adjust number of recordings displayedДЄnd if you're interested in this skin (current version), let me know and I can send it along later today or tomorrow.less than five upcoming recordings exist) Click on title to open up web page for recording details.Hover over title to get show/movie description in a tool tip.Click on 'Recording Schedule' to refresh skin (thereby refreshing all the data retrieved from the web server).Click on 'SageTV' to open web browser on user defined web page (e.g.In the meantime, what I have working so far: There's a pretty good RSS parser in the JSMeterV theme that I could send along that will probably make the task a lot less daunting as well (I think).

Rainmeter now playing skin tv#

tv shows would be dealt with more nicely for example, as could the date/time/channel info). I'm totally willing to do the 'front end' but having a more robust parser means that not only will it be easier for other folks to modify the 'skin' but will also mean that there could be some nicer 'display' options (movies vs. I'm wondering if there's anyone out there familiar with Lua and if so if there's any interest in scripting a more robust parser. I can continue on this route but it will most likely limit the ability of others from having more than five recordings displayed (easily unless you speak fluent regexp ) (Why five? Because that's how many recordings I like to view in advance ) I have a proof of concept of sorts working within the JSMeterV theme by parsing the RSS feed of the Recording Schedule (via the web plugin) using regexp (ugh).

I said I might and so I did I spent part of last weekend and most of this weekend so far diving back into Rainmeter (I had toyed with it once before about two years ago).