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Tech-A is a system monitoring Rainmeter Skin and Suite designed to make give your complete control of your system resources, launcher, and functions. It has a unique design that presents the information on your desktop in a logical and tech style. The dark theme and glowing blue light make the theme come alive.

This is a Start Menu replacement for Rainmeter. It has metro/win8 and classic/win7 style options and comes in two sizes, small and standard. It also features an update checker to inform you of the latest Rainmeter (configurable to check for betas or finals) or Start Menu skin updates. For more info see the forum page. Moreover, what I found interesting about this skin is that it does not slow down my i5-powered laptop. So, if you want to try out this Rainmeter skin, head over to the link below. I am using a minimalist nature wallpaper for this one. The reason I am mentioning Moderate skin is that it looks very similar to the Android. Best Rainmeter Themes for windows 2018 Get transparent taskbar - https://chrisandr.

This Rainmeter Skin is best used as a system monitoring suite with other add-ons and plugins. The composition of the suite include the following:

  • 1 to 6 CPU’s
  • 0 to 6 Drives
  • Upload and download
  • Ram
  • Buttons
  • Shortcuts and
  • Weather (Vclouds modified)

The beauty of this Rainmeter skin is the constant support provided by the Author, most challenges you may encounter have been addressed. You can check the comment section to read more on how to resolve any situation you may be finding difficult to overcome.

The Tech-A Skin for Rainmeter theme enjoys over 150 downloads daily and has been downloaded over 570,000 times, this supports the fact that it is popular and the theme works. The file size is quite heavier than most Rainmeter Skins.

Tweaking or modifying this theme is not easy a good knowledge of Rainmeter is required before you can make progress. Some modifications have appeared, however, this remains the most consistent and better option.

Tech – A Skin for Rainmeter

File Size: 11.8MB

Author: Burnwell88

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This page is intended for people who want to work with the source code for Rainmeter. This can be to make or suggest changes to the project C++ source code, or to create plugins for Rainmeter in C++ or C#. In addition, there is information on interacting with Rainmeter from external applications.

Note: Documentation for creating or modifying skins in Rainmeter can be found at Rainmeter Documentation.

The Rainmeter project is primarily written in C++ using Microsoft Visual Studio 2019. In addition, custom plugins can be written and distributed separately from the official Rainmeter project using C++ or C#. This page assumes familiarity with Visual Studio and either C++ or C#.

Project Source Code

The source code for the Rainmeter project is maintained at Rainmeter Repository on GitHub.

If you simply wish to obtain the source code to examine it or make a local change to how something works for your own use, you can simply download a .zip file from Download ZIP.

The only software you will need is Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 or the free Microsoft Visual Community which can be obtained at Download Visual Studio. Be sure to download and apply any Visual Studio Updates when prompted.

Create a folder containing the project code from the .zip file, and open Rainmeter.sln in Visual Studio. You can then set the desired Solution Configuration and Solution Platforms fields and build the solution to create Debug or Release versions in x32 or x64 architectures.

Creating a Project Repository

To do any serious work on the project source code, or to get involved in the development of Rainmeter, you will want to create a local repository and install a couple of tools to help manage your copy of the project.

First, you will want to install a local copy of the Git version control software on your PC. This can be obtained from Download Git.

Then, unless you are a fan of the Windows cmd.exe command line, it can be useful to install a Windows front-end client to help manage your Git repositories. There are several options for that, two of the more popular are TortoiseGit for Windows and GitHub for Windows.

To create your repository of the project code, first create an account on GitHub.com. Then from the Rainmeter Repository on GitHub you can fork the project to your account. Now you can use either the Git command line or the Windows front-end client you installed to clone the repository from your personal fork of the project on GitHub to a folder on your PC.

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Submitting Code Changes

If you make changes to the project source code that you would like to suggest as changes to the official build, you can make the changes in your personal GitHub repository, then at the Rainmeter repository, create a pull request with your code changes. It will expedite things if you contact the Rainmeter Team either on the forums at Bugs and Feature Suggestions or on IRC at #Rainmeter on Freenode to discuss the desired changes.

Creating a Full Rainmeter Build

In order to create a full build of the Rainmeter installer, you will need one additional piece of software.

Get and install NSIS version 3.04 or later from NSIS Scriptable Install System software on your PC.

Now you can simply run the Build.bat batch file in the Build folder of your local repository. If there are any 'not found' errors when you run the batch file, check the paths in the Set commands at the top of the file.

Use Build.bat RELEASE to build a non-beta installer.

To digitally sign the installer and the Rainmeter executables, obtain a certificate from a service that provides them, and create a Certificate.bat file alongside Build.bat with the following contents:

Creating Rainmeter Plugins

Anyone can create and distribute custom plugins for Rainmeter.

Note: The Rainmeter Skin Installer program, which is used by end-users to install the skins containing your plugin, will not allow the same or older version of the plugin to overwrite a newer version. The means that it is critically important that every release of your plugin must have the 'File version' number incremented. If you don't do this, your plugin will not be distributed.

The only software you will need is Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 or the free Microsoft Visual Community which can be obtained at Download Visual Studio. Be sure to download and apply any Visual Studio Updates when prompted.

Then you will want to download the Rainmeter Plugin SDK to a folder on your PC. The SDK contains the API code needed to create plugins, as well as some starting and sample plugin code for C++ and C#:

  • PluginEmpty
    An empty plugin template you can use as a starting point for your code.
  • PluginSystemVersion
    An example plugin that returns the Windows system version to a skin.
  • PluginParentChild
    An example plugin demonstrating how to do 'parent-child' functions in your plugin.
  • PluginSectionVariables
    An example plugin demonstrating how to implement functions to use as section variables in your plugin.

To create a plugin, the simplest approach is to make a copy of and rename the PluginEmpty example folder and files. Use GuidGen.exe from Visual Studio with Format 4 to generate a new GUID and add this and other appropriate changes to the .vcxproj or .csproj files. Open either SDK-CPP.sln (C++) or SDK-CS.sln (C#) in Visual Studio, add your new plugin project to the solution, develop your code in this template and build your plugin. Be sure that you use the Solution Configuration and Solution Platforms fields and build both x32 and x64 architecture release versions of your plugin .dll before you distribute it.

Plugin API Documentation

  • Documentation for C++ plugins can be found here and the API here.
  • Documentation for C# plugins can be found here and the API here.

Using SendMessage with External Applications

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The Rainmeter window message API can be used to query or control Rainmeter from external applications. The examples are for C++ and AutoIt, but similar functionality is available from any programming platform that can send window messages to running applications.

Query

The following sample demonstrates how to retrieve a running skin's window handle based on the skin config name. Note that the returned handle should only be used to check if the skin is active or not -- do not abuse the handle.

C/C++ code:

AutoIT code:

The following code demonstrates how to retrieve important application path information for Rainmeter from your external application.

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AutoIT code:

Bangs

The following samples demonstrate how external applications can send bangs to Rainmeter.

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C/C++ code:

AutoIT code: