Image via WikipediaInside every rainmeter widget is a .ini file.This is the control panel for each widget.What you want is to open it with Wordpad/Notepad and begin editing.Once again I assure you its nothin hard, most rainmeter developers label everything as to make it easy on normal people like you and me.
First things first, Extract your pack by putting the pack folder in the ...Rainmeter/Skins folder.
Locate the widget you want to customize. (e.g the notes widget).Open the .ini file with notepad.
Fonts and formatting
Font type
Now to change the font is simple.All you need to do is replace the current font name with the EXACT name of the font you want to change it to.
FontName=Segoe UI
FontName= Reservoir Grunge
Font colour
Now you should see a code in either 2 formats on is
Hexadecimal codes such as this colour is #38761d
RGB values is a mixture of the three this colour is 56,118,29
Worried how your going to make these codes? Go here at this free online colour picker
Select and substitute!
You can usually change the font height ,and formatting such as italics etc
Changing colours
Changing background colours etc is exactly same as above just selct and substitute.
BoxBG=255,255,255 <--White
BoxBG=191,144,0
Functional areas
Changing which Drive a widget redirects to?
Just substitute the desired drive to the new one you wish to monitor.
Changing drive names and other text
Other static text can usually be changed simply by changing is
Changing where your notes are stored.
First thing is to make sure you even have a file in the first place.If there is no /txt file to read from the notes widget will just be blank.So go ahead and create your .txt file in the desired location.
Now the default may be something like
C:\Path_to_rainmeter\Roomico\notes.txt
And you want it in your downloads folder just find out the path of your downloads folder.
Copy and Substitute! C:\Users\Owner\Downloads
DON'T FORGET TO SAVE!
General tip.
Be bold. Mess around with stuff. ASK QUESTIONS.
Dont be afraid to break the widget.After all you can just re download and it'll be good as new again :3
Happy tweaking.
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Andrew · 770 weeks ago
AlistairDZN 13p · 770 weeks ago
Static text for example a widget that says "Notes" and you want to change it to Andrews Notes?
Yes you can most of the time.Just change it around in the INI file.
begtognen · 769 weeks ago
START
---
no hurry: due August 4
URGENT: due Sunday
no hurry: due December 2
---
END
Could I make just the word "URGENT" bold, and red? If so, how would I go about making that happen?
Thank you for any help/suggestions.
AlistairDZN 13p · 769 weeks ago
Now for the formatting.
You can try [depends on the author] StringStyle=Bold that usually works for me.
and if you want a certain word in say red...the author would have to explicitly code that which is unlikely.
There has been some talk on the Rainmeter forums about stuff like this so hopefully it will get added in the next iteration.
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begtognen · 769 weeks ago
Okay, so when you say "StringStyle=Bold" - I'm not entirely sure where that would end up. What I'm using right now is the Enigma Notes text file on my desktop, by Kaelri.
I can assign all of the font attributes to the TITLE tag and to the NOTES tag, but I can't switch back and forth between them. If I tag something with "title", then the next line with "notes", then the next line with "title", only the first two lines appear. The rest vanishes, does that make sense?
begtognen · 769 weeks ago
AlistairDZN 13p · 769 weeks ago
Paste a snippet of the notes widget file that you want to customize.
I should be able to tell you where the String Style should go.
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begtognen · 769 weeks ago
---
[Title]
Meter=STRING
MeasureName=MeasureTitle
X=30
Y=0
H=900
W=300
StringStyle=BOLD
FontColor=c6c6c9
FontSize=16
FontFace=Calibri
AntiAlias=1
[Notes]
Meter=STRING
MeasureName=MeasureNotes
X=2
Y=32
W=900
H=900
FontColor=bf7603
FontFace=#Font#
FontSize=40
StringAlign=LEFT
StringStyle=NORMAL
AntiAlias=1
ClipString=1
---
END
And then in the Notes.txt file, here's what I've got:
<TITLE>This text is in the Title font.</TITLE>
<NOTES>This text is in the Notes font.</NOTES>
<TITLE>This is the text that vanishes.</TITLE>
<NOTES>And so does this text.</NOTES>
But all that I can see on the desktop is:
This text is in the Title font.
This text is in the Notes font.
AlistairDZN · 769 weeks ago
/Title ends it...so
You can try this
Have <Titile> XYZ <Notes> ABC </Notes> <Title> :p
begtognen · 765 weeks ago
Aaron Jose · 152 weeks ago