So when I moved to a new PC I never installed it again. I first came across Rainmeter 6 or more years ago I think and used it for a while but never really did anything with it let alone code stuff myself. Which is sometimes really frustrating because certain things that are usually very easy you now have to be really creative to get to work properly. So it has nothing in common with other well-known programming languages like Java or Python. Today you can do so much with it but the weird thing is that it’s super non-standard because it has those roots and is still based on. ( I hope it’s understandable and not to nerdy, I promise this will be art at the end of this Art Log )īut Rainmeter grew in popularity and people started doing really creative stuff with it and it became bigger and more complicated. Then it’s X and Y position and it’s Width ( W ) and height ( H) and the orientation and color. With the Meter I first specify that I want a Bar, then I tell the Meter from what Measure to get the data. Than it gives you a % output of your CPU usage.

In this case the CPU ( CPU means Computer Processing Unit, so that is the Processor ). Than you tell the Measure what to measure with the “measure=” command. The stuff between the is just the name, this can be anything but you can’t name 2 things the same way. So as an example, say I want a bar on my desktop that goes up and down the more or less I use my processor I’d create something like this: The Measure measures something or reads something on your system and the meter display’s that data in some way. The basics are quite easy, for everything you want to do you need a “Measure” and a “Meter”. ini files (Those are usually used for settings and you can just open and edit them with notepad) but it worked and it worked fine. It wasn’t a proper full programming language by any stretch of the imagination, it was based completely on. You could make those widgets yourself by writing little bits of code and those got converted to visual elements you could place on your desktop. It’s a program you can install on your pc that was originally meant to display little widgets on your desktop that could tell you information about your PC like the name, free disk space, Memory usage, uptime, network speed and those kinds of things. Okey, let start with What is Rainmeter? Does it have anything to do with rain? Let’s give her a printscreen of a chat conversation between 2 interdimensional time travelers who just discover that something is wrong instead,īut then I went out and spent way too much time on creating Rainmeter skins last week and also broke 10000 downloads on deviantart on my most popular skin, so fuck it!

Let’s not talk about Rainmeter I thought…

Rainmeter uptime skin