Wow thanks a lot Kureshii for the clean up of the .ini, that's pretty awesome! I decided to go with the alternate version you did where it filled up the panel some. I'm curious, I never took a programing course or learned anything about the programing languages like C++ and such, do you think that would be part of the reason why I am having some difficulty understanding this stuff?
Sorry about the weird CPU frequency reading, I realised I had left in 2 redundant declarations that screwed it up. Just remove Percentual=1 and Autoscale=1 from [CpuCore0FreqMeter] and [CpuCore1FreqMeter] in the .ini file (or just recopy the code I pasted in the earlier post, I edited that too).
You don't really need any programming background to play around with Rainmeter's .ini files, but you do need a good understanding of how each line in the file affects how your Rainmeter display looks (the
Rainmeter Manual helps immensely). In particular, you need to understand how they are positioned. There is a difference between X=80, X=80r and X=80R, for instance; and if you don't know the difference then getting stuff placed in the right spot will be very frustrating.
Another point you need to understand is variables, and how they are used. That will save you a lot of re-editing each time you want to make a small change, e.g. in font colour or size.
And lastly, you need to know what meters and measures are. The measures are what actually measure the various things you want (CPU utilisation, memory utilisation, network load etc). You can present the information from these measures in various ways (in text form, as a line graph, bar graph, etc), and these methods are collectively known as meters. Various properties control these meters, so of course you'll need to know that as well.
There are some parts of it where a little programming/computing background will really help, such as the way colours are represented (as Red,Green,Blue,Alpha values with values from 0-255), but that shouldn't be hard to google.
I have a question. Will this work with 8 core computers?
Naru, it should. The more "advanced" meters take their performance measurements from NT's performance tool (in Windows), so anything it displays should be available for Rainmeter to display as well (and it displays a hell lot of stuff). You will have to edit the skin manually to add more displays for additional cores, but that shouldn't be difficult
