Help: Rainmeter Skins • Re: Skin resizing

Regarding skin resizing, for your case, using TransformationMatrix is not the way to go. The reason is simple: while it can do the resizing, that will only be on the visual side and not on the functional side. Even though visually resized with TransformationMatrix, meters will retain their original position and size, which means that mouse actions will react on those original coordinates and not the resized ones.

So, you have to approach this differently, by using suited factors with which you'd multiply every position and size of each meter in your skin, and potentially every font size value. Here are two samples that might help you get the idea:
https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?t=44561#p227474
https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?t=44705&start=10#p228941
The first focuses on doing this automatically when resolution changes, the second is more interactive based on custom dragging to resize the skin via the Mouse plugin by NighthawkSLO. The principle of both is the same, however, multiplying any position coordinate and size of each meter with a 'scale' or a 'factor' value.

That being said, luckily in your .ini the height of the background rounded rectangle meter aka [MeterPanel] is already based on the built-in #WORKAREAHEIGHT# of the current monitor, it's only the other meters that are not dependent on that and are positioned and sized using hardcoded values, which, as you noticed, do not suit every monitor.

Therefore, you'll need to follow the similar idea in regards to the vertical height of the monitor here:
https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?t=44561#p227518
and define a Factor=(#WORKAREAHEIGHT#/BaseWorkAreaHeight) in [Variables], where BaseWorkAreaHeight is the screen height minus the taskbar height for which your skin was designed for or on which it perfectly fits, then multiply every existing value for the X, Y, W, H, FontSize, Padding of your meters as well as the increment / decrement steps and low / high values in the Clamp() functions from your ActionTimer measures with #Factor#. Except the sizes or coordinates that are already based on #WORKAREAHEIGHT#, see the height of the [MeterPanel] rectangle and a few other parts.

For example, say that the skin perfectly fits on my 1080p screen. My taskbar is 30 pixels in height. Then I do:and so on. Time for you to do the 90% and us the 10% - good luck with the process, if clearer do a couple of meters at a time instead of all of them at once. And don't forget about ActionTimers or FontSize options, they're also about position and size values, so you should adjust them too.

P.S. I used the Factor labeling above instead of the Scale one just in case you one day want to actually scale this independently of the screen / work area dimensions.

Statistics: Posted by Yincognito — Today, 12:01 am

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