Help: Rainmeter Skins • Re: Convert <svg path> from html and display in shape meter

Looks great, very nice work! Obviously the skin looks better, being customizable and interactive in any way you like.

It seems I was right in my guessing earlier, in the end you did convert the svg to an image:

Looking forward to see what you've come up with in the following days (converting the svg to an image?)

which indeed was one of the few other ways to approach it, but as you noticed, the svg had to be adjusted a bit and a program to perform the conversion was needed. I'm glad the advice here on the forum paid off and resulted in something nice and useful to you! You played a big part on that, being willing to learn and experiment with something not many have the "courage" to do so (e.g. regex, other scripting tools, etc).

By the way, since we're at it, you do know that you can send bangs or strings from AHK / AutoIt to a Rainmeter skin (either a single time or periodically), right? A bit technical, as you'd expect, but quite compact once you have a function in a few lines of AHK / AutoIt code - see the bottom of the pages here for the AutoIt 3, AHK 1 and AHK 2 equivalents:
https://docs.rainmeter.net/developers/
https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?t=40813

In this particular case, it wouldn't have helped too much since anything else than an image was prone to various performance issues (300 or 600 rectangle shapes are a lot) in Rainmeter, but just so you know, if you didn't already - maybe it can help in other potential future projects.

Statistics: Posted by Yincognito — Yesterday, 10:43 pm

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