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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Simply starting the program.
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expect the program to start. Insted I get a warning telling me that
MSVCP71.dll can not be found and so the program will not run. It also tells
me to reinstall, but that does not fix the problem.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Rainmeter-Latest-20090320-32bit.exe on XP SP3. Previous versions of
Rainmeter do not have this problem.

Please provide any additional information below. If the problem is a
related to some config option attaching a example is always a good idea.
Try to keep it as simple as possible and make sure that it is a fully
working Rainmeter config (i.e. it includes all graphics too).

It might be useful if Rainmeter could create multiple tray icons. E.g. one
to show the CPU usage, one for network, etc. The histogram meter in the
tray could also should multiple measures by separating them with different
colors.

It would be nice if the build-in CPU measure could show the usage per
core/cpu. Add a setting which defines the CPU to monitor. If the setting is
missing the combined usage would be measured (like it does currently).

Is there any way to make your wonderful programm to be localized?

In order to start this build, another runtime components needed to be
installed in my system. (Windows XPsp3)

Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x86)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9b2da534-3e03-4391-8a4d
-074b9f2bc1bf&displaylang=en

What steps will reproduce the problem?

Run Rainmeter-Latest-20090409-32bit.exe

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Installer should finish. <a
href="http://img6.imageshack.us/my.php?image=04102009083631.png"
target="_blank"><img
src="http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/4985/04102009083631.th.png"
border="0"/></a>


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

WinXP SP2


Please provide any additional information below. If the problem is a
related to some config option attaching a example is always a good idea.
Try to keep it as simple as possible and make sure that it is a fully
working Rainmeter config (i.e. it includes all graphics too).

Clicking Retry produces the same effect. Clicking Ignore continues and
appears to finish installation with no errors.

I wanted to ask what exactly does the redistributable package add, and
where does it add it? Would Rainmeter be able to use the necessary files if
they are put into the Rainmeter dir? Would it be legal to package an
installer for the portable version of Rainmeter, being worked on at
PortableApps.com, with the VC++ files included (and inserted into Rainmeter
dir)?

The following was suggested by Legace at the forum:
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Open post: 

I think the right-click menu of Rainmeter tray icon need serious improvements..
This would be better IMO:

- Gadgets/Skins/or something better (instead of Configs) >
--- Random
------- Style 1.ini
------- Style 2.ini
- Active Gadgets (this would show all open configs/skins/whatever) >
--- Random
------- Close
------- etc.
- More >
--- Show log file
--- Edit settings
--- Help
--- About...
- Exit

End of post
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On a personal note, I believe that btodoroff's suggestion of and "Open
Skins folder" command in the systems tray/Skins context menu is and
excellent idea as well.

This would save time in navigating to the rainmeter skins file.
----------------------------------------------------------------

as a personal suggestion, and option to not show Rainmeter icon in the
systems tray would be and idea, and then to combine the systems tray
context menu to the skins context menu.

The only major draw back would be when someone clicks the "Click Through"
option, so removing the Rainmeter systems tray Icon may not be a safe
choice, and I do not see away around this.

Scrolling text would be most useful. Is there a way to do this already? I
can't seem to find one.

Would it be possible to clip text in a different way? Number of characters
maybe? The way it seems to work now is it clips the string to about 2/3 of
actual length. I have strings I want to display in a confined area, that
may be different lengths, but even the shortest ones, which easily fit in
the confined area are clipped.

I have been keeping up with the latest releases, but I am starting to feel
at a disadvantage. Since I am unaware of what has been changed, I am
unaware of what to look for.

I am operating on a Cheesy HP with Vista 32 bit.

I believe a running change log that quickly outline changes may assist me
in assisting you folks. 

I have been Alpha and Beta testing for years, I understand the risks
involved, but  worthy sacrifice for this software.

I know it would require further work, but may be well worth your time

Regards

While going over the way that the NetIn and NetOut Measures actually
calculate network traffic, todoroff found some interesting things:

[16:26] <btodoroff> It uses GetIfTable and the resulting MIB_IFROW structure.
[16:26] <btodoroff> This gives total octets through the interface.
[16:27] <btodoroff> It keeps a vector of past results and does some magic
fu to come up with a speed.
[16:27] <btodoroff> I don't like it, and it seems there should be a better
way using performance counters or such.
[16:31] <btodoroff> See void CMeasureNet::UpdateIFTable() in MeasureNet.cpp.

An improvement on how rainmeter gathers data for these values would be useful.


While on the topic of these two Measures, it would be useful if they
returned Bytes in/out, rather than bits.  Bytes are used the majority of
the time, rather than bits, by most users.

The Image meter should (optionally) preserve the aspect ration when the
image is scaled.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Run UltraMon for mulitple monitors, each with their own wallpaper
2. Start Rainmeter & loaded the Enigma config
3. Clock & Reader showup, but Rainmeter notes Music, Calendar,  HDD 
installed, but they do not show up anywhere.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
- Expect to see the latter items somewhere.
- I don't see them at all, on any desktop ???

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
- Rainmeter ver 0.14 (64-bit)
- OS Vista 64

Please provide any additional information below. If the problem is a 
related to some config option attaching a example is always a good idea. 
Try to keep it as simple as possible and make sure that it is a fully 
working Rainmeter config (i.e. it includes all graphics too).

The settings and skins should be moved to the %APPDATA% folder so that they
can be edited without admin privileges and that different users can have
different settings.

It would be useful if there was some sort of option to change the default
"Edit Skin..." application from Notepad.exe to an application of the users
choice. Personally I use Notepad++ to edit my skins, but it's a pain to
have to select the file to edit from the "Skins" folder.

I have noticed that Rainmeter doesn't like displaying a meter for a disk
that does not exist. It throws repeated Windows - No Disk errors. Could it
perhaps temporarily disable that meter, or suppress the error in some way?

Add a plugin to provide EXIF information from an image file.  The path to
the file is passed in and a string is returned with the selected EXIF
information.  This can include date, GPS location, copyright information,
lens, exposure, ect.  This would be great paired with the Quote measure to
put random pictures from a folder up and display the info from them.

I apologize for the first post as it was incomplete.


As I was saying. i have utilized rainmeter for years and it is nice to see
it on the move again.

I am hoping my suggestion holds weight here.

I would like to see the incompatibilities of Rainmeter corrected. There are
functions that will not work in any Vista OS environment.

The 2 big ones are the WiFi and temperature.

these plugins were made some time ago, but rendered useless in the Vista OS.

I think the biggest push to get Rainmeter back on track would be to get the
compatability issues corrected.

I will be making a post to Donationcoder.com regarding the fact that the
Rainmeter project has been taken up again.

I am no programmer, but if there is anyway I can assist, let me know.

Downloading the latest Beta now

Regards
Sgt. E. V. McKay

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Use the following RSS URL
http://www.spiegel.de/schlagzeilen/tops/index.rss

2. Compare the headlines with the actual headlines from www.spiegel.de
You will notice that the RSS feed headlines in the RSS skin will lack the
german umlauts

ä = ä
ü = ü
ö = ö
Ä = Ä
Ü = Ü
Ö = Ö
ß = ß

Other skins - the Winamp&FooBar skin for example - will display umlauts
just fine, it appears all RSS skins (those from other contributors as well)
are having trouble with those characters (and probably other special
characters in other languages)

ANSI codes (like "ü" for "ü" are also not parsed correctly.
For reference, try the following RSS URL

http://rss.focus.de/fol/XML/rss_folnews.xml



What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

For instance, "ENTFÜHRTER KAPITÄN" becomes "ENTFHRTER KAPITN" when parsed 
from 

http://www.spiegel.de/schlagzeilen/tops/index.rss

and "Entführter Kapitän" when parsed from 

http://rss.focus.de/fol/XML/rss_folnews.xml

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
v0.14.1 (32bit) April 09 2009 build

- What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Open any rainmeter skin
2. Position it on the far right of the screen
3. Change the desktop resolution to half-current res then back to normal.

- What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The desired outcome is that the widgets will move automatically with the
change in resolution, maintaining their distance from the edge of the
screen then move automatically back to the same location when the
resolution changes to the original.

- What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Rainmeter-Latest-20090405-32bit.exe on Vista64

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. create any meter to display free\used space on a removable drive

Basically Rainmeter will tell you if the drive is attached or not, by
showing a full or empty meter. It should tell you how much space is being
used or not used.

I am trying to get Rainmeter fully accepted into the portableapps.com
community. Having it actually be able to give correct values for the
portable device it is running on would be a really nice feature.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
Run a program that changes the screen resolution (eg. Fallout 2).

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Rainmeter windows are "pushed" into the middle of the screen when the 
resolution first changes. The screen resolution changes back when the 
program is ended, but the Rainmeter windows remain out of position. 
Altering the state of the "save position" and "draggable" options does 
nothing.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.14.1  The problem also occurs in 0.14
The OS is Windows Vista Home Premium.

Please provide any additional information below. If the problem is a 
related to some config option attaching a example is always a good idea. 
Try to keep it as simple as possible and make sure that it is a fully 
working Rainmeter config (i.e. it includes all graphics too).
I'm using a combination of BGlass and Enigma.
It might be worth noting that Rainlendar 2 does not suffer from this 
problem.

Originally posted to Forum


What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Right Click on Rainmeter Tray Icon
2. Attempt to open "Help" file
3. No Response

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Open help file


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.14.0 and 0.14.1

Please provide any additional information below. If the problem is a
related to some config option attaching a example is always a good idea.
Try to keep it as simple as possible and make sure that it is a fully
working Rainmeter config (i.e. it includes all graphics too).

Apparently several folks having this issue. Just attempted myself and
confirmed.

Upon opening any Context Menu, and click "Help"; nothing happens.

How about applying new positioning options also to !BANG command?
e.g.
!RainmeterMove 50% 50% [config]
!RainmeterMove 100R 100B [config]

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Creating several configs to monitor email
2. Can only operate one imap, and one pop at a time
3. can not monitor more than one mail account at a time properly
=========================================================================
What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

I was hoping to monitor up to 4 e-mail accounts.
Modified configs to achieve this goal.
Instead of pop3, must use imap configuration, as pop3 will not allow for
multiple e-mail monitoring.
Imap works fine for one config.

I currently monitor netscape in pop3 and GMX in Imap.

Rainmeter locks when I attempt to add gmail and/or business account e-mail.

Apparently Rainmeter in its current form can not monitor multiple e-mails.

Of course my configs maybe wrong (See Attached).

I also just noticed that if more than one config updates at the same time,
one or the other gets knocked out to zero.

Therefore I can not monitor more than one e-mail at a time.

Hopeful result: to be able to monitor multiple e-mail accounts
=======================================================================
I also would like to see if someone has a walk through on how to get Gmail
monitored through their SSL.

I can not get the Mail3 (for gmail to work at all), apparently the monitor
is being stopped by the gmail security
=========================================================================
What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

o.14.1
Vista 32

Please provide any additional information below. If the problem is a
related to some config option attaching a example is always a good idea.
Try to keep it as simple as possible and make sure that it is a fully
working Rainmeter config (i.e. it includes all graphics too).

Could the RecycleManager plugin be modified to monitor the size and file
count of any directory?

That way you could have a config to monitor the size of your music or video
or whatever folders.

I think custom tooltips for meters would be very useful. A ToolTip= line
that could be used to display a description of the meter, or tell what a
button will do. It would also be good if we could display any string in the
tooltip. We could have a meter that only displays a bar, histogram, etc,
but hovering over it would display the textual info.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Using 2 Screens


What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I want the frames in my 2. screen; but every time I start it, they are at
the first screen again. Also the rss isn't working on the second screen.
When it updates it moves automatically to the first screen.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Latest Version. Windoows XP (Sp3)

Please provide any additional information below. If the problem is a
related to some config option attaching a example is always a good idea.
Try to keep it as simple as possible and make sure that it is a fully
working Rainmeter config (i.e. it includes all graphics too).

Currently SysInfo returns string values of the form "height x width" for
WORK_AREA and SCREEN_SIZE which means you can't actually do anything useful
with them such as resize/reposition your skins.

I couldn't live without this feature for my current skin so I've actually
hacked the SysInfo plugin and added the following new SysInfoTypes which
will return UINTs:
    WORK_AREA_WIDTH,
    WORK_AREA_HEIGHT,
    SCREEN_WIDTH,
    SCREEN_HEIGHT,
    NUM_MONITORS,
    VIRTUAL_SCREEN_WIDTH,
    VIRTUAL_SCREEN_HEIGHT,

If anybody has any suggestions for other useful system information, I can
add those in as well.

I should mention that WORK_AREA_W/H and SCREEN_W/H both can take a
SysInfoData value which will allow the user to specify which monitor to use
if working in a Multi-Monitor environment, although if none is specified it
will just use the Primary monitor.

I'm obviously not in the project yet, but if Rainy is willing to add me I
can submit the changes, or just pass them off to somebody if they'd like to
review them once I'm sure it's release quality.

If Regular Expressions can be used for 'substitute', it will be very useful.
It will be able to edit any strings from retrieved deta.

Examples:

# extract just artist name from WINAMP.
"^\d+. (.+?) - .*$":"Artist: \1"

# Mask a IP adress
"^(\d{1,3}).(\d{1,3}).(\d{1,3}).\d{1,3}$":"\1.\2.\3.***"

# Truncates string by lenght and appends ”…” 
"^(.{10,}).+$":"\1..."

button events are necessary for many actions, such as emptying the recycle
bin or opening a context menu... if plugins could implement these features,
the code would be much more streamlined and modular.

Hi,

I believe the Perfmon.dll is not reading my CPU%'s correctly.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
[MeasureCPU0]
Measure= Plugin
Plugin= Perfmon.dll
PerfMonObject="Processor"
PerfMonInstance=0
PerfMonCounter="% Processor Time"
PerfMonDifference=1
InvertMeasure=1

[MeasureCPU1]
Measure= Plugin
Plugin= Perfmon.dll
PerfMonObject="Processor"
PerfMonInstance=1
PerfMonCounter="% Processor Time"
PerfMonDifference=1
InvertMeasure=1

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected output on normal usage should be nowhere higher than 2%.  Instead,
numbers are showing as '-10000000'.  The output value does change (between
9000000 to 11000000).


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Perfmon.dll is version 1.2
Rainmeter .14 for 64-bit
Vista x64 Ultimate SP1
Intel Core i7 920

I checked Perfmon.msc and that is showing the Data correctly.

In the attached screenshot - the above CPU is using the standard rainmeter
capture while the bottom one (CPU2) is trying to read one of the cores.

The RecycleManager works great, I've made a nice recycle config already. A
few people have noted though, that it only reads drive C:\

Could we set which drive's bin for it to check?

[MeasureBin1]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=RecycleManager.dll
Drive=D
RecycleType=COUNT
Update=1000
UpdateDivider=10

It is very difficult, not to mention annoying, to be told what is not a
rainmeter issue or dll. 

Please list for us what dll's are rainmeters, and which are not so that we
may get on with bugging someone else.

If you are in the process of replacing or advancing these other dlls,
please advise.

I love Rainmeter dearly, and have supported as I can, but I am seriously
getting frustrated.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. install on any machine with multiple TCP/IP interfaces
2. connect via one interface only
3. connect via another interface only

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
the IP of the currently active connection should be returned, instead, the 
IP of the first interface (whether active or not) is returned... yielding 
0.0.0.0 if conection is via another interface

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
.14 on Windows XP SP3

Please provide any additional information below. If the problem is a 
related to some config option attaching a example is always a good idea. 
Try to keep it as simple as possible and make sure that it is a fully 
working Rainmeter config (i.e. it includes all graphics too).

This is an issue with SysInfo.dll, specifically the lines

[code]
case IP_ADDRESS:
                 if (NO_ERROR == GetIpAddrTable((PMIB_IPADDRTABLE)buffer, 
&len, FALSE))
                 {
                         PMIB_IPADDRTABLE ipTable = (PMIB_IPADDRTABLE)
buffer;
                         if (data < ipTable->dwNumEntries)
                         {
                                 DWORD ip = ipTable->table[data].dwAddr;
                                 wsprintf(buffer, L"%i.%i.%i.%i", ip%256, 
(ip>>8)%256, (ip>>16)%256, (ip>>24)%256);
                                 return buffer;
                         }
                 }
                 break; 
[/code]

The index list of the help file shows "RecycleMonitor" ,the plugin is
RecycleManager.dll . The header for it's page reads "Ping Plugin"

Windows are always positioned with WindowX/Y denoting the location of the
top left corner of the meter window.  It would be useful to be able to
specify the position of the point that will be used in this calculation in
pixel or percent.  This will allow true centering and intuitive positioning
relative to bottom and right edges. 

I think we are going to get to where, we complainers will need a place to go.
The word is out, and I am partly responsible.

Rainmeter is alive!

here's some basic code (uncompiled/untested as usual) to open the start
menu and show/hide the taskbar, originally by ChrisNSoft, but modified for
function use by me...  once custom bangs are supported, i'm, imagining one
plugin that will supply info regarding the tray and taskbar, and allow
opening the start menu, so we can fully replace the desktop interface.

*COUNT* seems to be *SIZE*. also the contrary too.

Set a link with the text:
"IRC: Join #rainmeter on irc.freenode.net"
and a URL of:
"irc://freenode/#rainmeter"

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. puppy linux 4.12 + wine .pet package
2. wine /root/RainmeterLatest/Rainmeter.exe
3. occur Runtime Error

---------------------------------------------------
Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library
Runtime Error!

Program: Z:\root\RainmeterLatest\Rainmeter.exe

R6034
An application has made an attempt to load the C
runtime library incorrectly.
Please contact the application's support team for
more imformation.

Make it possible to define the window positions relatively to the screen
(X=50%). This could be used to keep them e.g. in the screen edges even if
the resolution is changed.

Hello Folks

I have utilized Rainmeter for several years.
It is nice to see it on the move again.

Is it possible to add a command line parameter to set where rainmeter.ini
and the Skins folder is stored? If not, it would be greatly appreciated if
this feature could be added.

An OnDropAction like mouse down actions, except that a %1 could be inserted
into the command which would add the file dropped on the meter to the
command, would be incredible. We could send files to apps, maybe even to
servers. This could also make the new RecyclePlugin into a drop target, I'm
not sure of the commandline for that, but I'm sure it exists.

While we are at it, a MiddleClickAction wouldn't hurt either...

Atleast I think this is the case.

I've tried a few things to get HUD.Vision to display it properly but the 
end result is that I can't get any CPU Temperature readings.

I'm using Rainmeter 0.14 (32-bit) and Windows Vista Ultimate (32-bit) 
Oh yeah. The CPU is Itel Core 2 Quad 6600. It has 4 individual core temp 
sensors.

The network stats are not written to the rainmeter.ini file when the
application is closed by Windows shutdown. The stats will revert back to
the original values when Rainmeter is started again. If Rainmeter is closed
manually everything works as it is supposed to.

It would be nice to have similar functionality to the webparser, but with
CLI tools... a simple plugin that shells the given command, captures the
output, and applies a regex to it to parse out variables would be amazing
to add features like itunes control via itch, or displaying arp tables, or
many other things...  if there were three options, one to run the command
and be done (a custom bang sort of thing), one to run the command
periodically (like webparser), and one to run, buffer the output, and
present the current output of an ongoing process periodically, I would be
in heaven.

Some problems cannot be solved by current download option.

For example, when two or more downloaded file names are the same, both of
they cannot be displayed.
(It is because the same file name as a temporary folder cannot live together.)

In another example, the file cannot be downloaded from following URL.
http://www.example.com/image?id=1234
(It is maybe because the inaccurate character is contained, so it cannot
save in a temporary folder.)

Then, I have some suggestion.

1. Add the permanent download method
e.g. "Save as..." (the way a user can specify an output directory and name.)

have anyone seen this error before & how to solve them

DEBUG: (00:04:56.652) Refreshing (Name: "HUD.Vision\White\Weather" Ini:
"Weather.ini")
DEBUG: (00:04:56.917) WebParser: Fetching URL:
http://xoap.weather.com/weather/local/IDXX0074?cc=*&unit=m&dayf=6
DEBUG: (00:04:56.917) WebParser (788) Unknown error: 12029
DEBUG: (00:05:10.146) Refreshing (Name: "HUD.Vision\White\InfoSystem" Ini:
"InfoSystem-forVISTA.ini")
DEBUG: (00:05:10.240) WebParser: Fetching URL: http://checkip.dyndns.org
DEBUG: (00:05:10.240) WebParser (788) Unknown error: 12029
DEBUG: (00:05:10.255) Initialization successful.

im using updated win vista sp1