Rainmeter 2.5 Build 1842 FINAL Portable
Yanira Conlon
Rainmeter is a customizable desktop widget program with the ability to display tools such as memory usage, battery power, RSS feeds and weather forecasts. The program includes many functional skins, able to record your notes and to-do lists, launch your favorite applications and control your media player all in a clean, unobtrusive interface.
Installer includes both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions.
XP/Vista users: download 3.3.3 Release version of Rainmeter.
Thanks a lot @Magibon. The provided dependencies worked on Win7x64/Feb2013. As a note, I had to reinstall in portable mode and move skins and rainmeter.ini to the new instalation folder in order to make it work; copying dependencies to my original portable installation keept it failing. Thanks again.
Another swing and a miss! I tried the previous version, and now this updated version, and the MSVCP100.dll problem still exists. It won't run as a portable. I tried the fixes from the Rainmeter website and from older posts above...still no luck on XP, 7, and 8RP. (For the fun of it, I did a full install of Rainmeter on 8RP and it runs great.)
I'm the Mike who had posted a few years ago that I didn't like this app. I don't remember what I saw that led me to conclude that this app runs too slow, but it doesn't matter now. I decided to give Rainmeter another try and was impressed. I'm going to play around with it to realize its potential but I can tell you now that this one's a keeper. I wish I hadn't posted so harshly about it earlier.
@Edgar and all that are interested in this:
Yes, it works in portable mode. Do what Rick says and you're fine. I've found only one problem which I can't solve at the moment: configuring the launch button at the bottom, doesn't seem to support relative paths.
The program is now available in a non-install zip file. As is, it will create directories in the user app directory, but if you create a rainmeter.ini (or rename default.ini to rainmeter.ini) in the Rainmeter folder it is completely portable.
@Mike:
If you are so sure then go out find it and post it. I get really tired of comments like yours. Others have gone out of their way to find this. If you can do better then do so. Dont forget it must be FREE and must be portable. Otherwise keep comments like that to yourself
Nice App, but the "portable mode" as described does not work for me. I copied all content (from $_OUTDIR, $APPDATA and $PLUGINSDIR without the mentioned vcredist_X86.exe) into one single folder, created the .ini-file and have all the dependencies, but get an error saying the program can not be startet, because the application's configuration is not valid (reinstall it).
Has someone got this to work yet?
v2.5.0.1842 [Nov 18, 2012]
FileView plugin. This powerful new plugin will index and gather information about all files and folders in a defined path. Information supported includes the path, name, size, type, date, and icon. Commands can be used to scroll through the index of files, move up and down in the folder tree, and select files for display or opening with the associated program.
Added new ClipString=2 setting and new ClipStringW / ClipStringH options. This will allow for more dynamic clipping and wrapping of a string while sizing the containing meter to accommodate the entire contents. Details are at Change Announcements.
Added new Mouse Actions to support the scroll wheel. Details are at Change Announcements.
Added new Mouse Variables. These are "macro" variables used in the context of a mouse click action to provide the current X and Y position of the mouse cursor relative to the meter or skin in pixels or a percentage. Details are at Change Announcements.
Added new OnUpdateAction command to Skins, Meters and Measures. This will allow an action to take place when the element is updated normally or by any bang.
Added new OnChangeAction command to Measures. This will allow an action to take place when the value of a measure changes.
Added new OnFocusAction and OnUnFocusAction options to the [Rainmeter] section of the skin, to execute actions when a skin gains or loses focus (by clicking it) in Windows.
Added "*" as a wildcard parameter to the !UpdateMeasure and !UpdateMeter bangs to immediately update all measures and meters.
Changed the behavior of the WebParser ProxyServer option to better handle how WebParser interacts with Internet Explorer for proxy management.
v2.5.0.1827 [Nov 8, 2012]
- Changed illustro: The RSS/Atom reader skin has been removed from the default illustro skins and layout on a new installation of Rainmeter. This is due to the pending end of the "Google Reader" service from Google on July 1st. Existing Rainmeter installations will not be effected.
v2.2.0.1103 [Oct 10, 2011]
-Alt Tab now displays the Rainmeter icon for the Manage/About dialogs.
-NowPlaying.dll: iTunes shuffle state change now detected immediately.
-Additonal localization / language support.
-Changed the behavior of AlwaysOnTop / Z-Position settings.
-Stay Topmost, Topmost, Normal and On Desktop now all will remain visible when Windows "Show Desktop" or "Win M / Win D" is used. The behavior otherwise remains the same. This change can be globally overriden (for all skins) by seting NormalStayDesktop=0 in the [Rainmeter] section of Rainmeter.ini. This should eliminate the need to set skins to "On Desktop" in most cases, other than pure "background" skins that you want to remain behind other skins at all times.
-CoreTemp.dll: Fixed that Scale, NumOfDecimals, etc. didn't work with -MeasureName=SomeCoreTempMeasure.
This change may slightly change the display of results (e.g. CpuSpeed will now be displayed without decimals by default, while it always showed two decimals previously)
-Fixed a Meter=Button problem with buttons not working in some cases, caused by an earlier update.
-Fixed a problem where the new "position" was not being saved after a refresh when !ZPos was used.
-Fixed an infinite loop / hang when Rainmeter.exe is called with a bang containing square brackets (e.g. Rainmeter.exe !Bang "[Text]")
-Made some log messages more consistent.
-NowPlaying.dll:
* Fixed that album name and cover were not always displayed with Winamp.
* Shuffle and repeat state is now rechecked on track change with iTunes.
* Improved performance when reading file tags/cover,
* Updated iTunes SDK files.
-Fixed that the Measures panel in the About dialog sometimes displayed incorrect values.
Improved performance when drawing images. (2-10 times faster in some cases)
-Fixed a problem where negative (W)idth or (H)eight values could crash Rainmeter.
-NowPlaying.dll/iTunesPlugin.dll: Fixed incompatibility with iTunes controllers.
-NowPlaying.dll: Removed support for caching cover art.
-NowPlaying.dll: Fixed some bangs which caused iTunes to crash when no track is playing.
-Minor performance tweaks and code cleanup.
-Additonal localization / language support.
Fixed a bug with StartHidden in [Rainmeter] caused in earlier beta.
-Fixed a crash of Rainmeter in some cases if W= was negative.
-Fixed an issue with a language .dll file not loading correctly.
-Various updates to language / translation files.
-NowPlaying: Fixed issues caused by new 10.5 version of iTunes application.
-Localization: Several languages added / updated.
-WebParser: Fixed that matching failed with Codepage= other than 0 and 65001 in some cases.
-PowerPlugin: Fixed crash when waking up from sleep/hibernation in some cases.
-Manage Themes: Fixed that loaded wallpaper was not set permanently.
-Installer: Fixed that default language detection failed on 64bit Rainmeter.
-Installer: Now remembers language selection
-Added initial support for localization / language in the Rainmeter application. The application UI, context menus and log entries.
-New languages will be added during the course of the beta cycle, as translations are provided and validated.
-Fixed that "Edit Skin" in "Manage" caused a needless UAC elevation prompt in some cases.
-WebParser: Fixed a RegExp failure if the data contained embedded NULL characters.
-DynamicVariables are now supported on plugins for settings that are common to all measures, like MaxValue, Disabled, etc.
-Removed support for using Rainmeter.dll as a LiteStep modual. This was required to support Localization project.
-Fixed a bug in "Manage" that did not save the skin "Position" value correctly.
-Reduced overall system resource usage.
-Fixed a bug in "Manage" that did not allow negative numbers to be entered for "LoadOrder".