Download Rainmeter 2.4 r1570 beta

After the final release of version 2.3 of Rainmeter, exactly one month ago, the first beta release of version 2.4 has now been released. This program can display all kinds of useful and less useful information on the desktop in real time, such as free hard drive space, network activity and whether there is new email. Functional applets can also be used to, for example, make notes or send tweets. New in version 2.4 is, among other things, that custom mouse cursors can be used and that quotas are taken into account when calculating the free space on the hard disk.

Rainmeter 2.4 Beta Available

The latest version of Rainmeter will see many improvements, both for users of the application and for those creating and editing skins. Stay tuned every Sunday for the latest beta version. As always, Rainmeter 2.4 fully supports skins written for earlier versions, and users can simply upgrade their existing installations. There is no need to uninstall or change any existing setup to use the new beta version.

• Added support for custom cursors on meters with mouse actions with new MouseActionCursorName option.
  If a custom cursor file (ie .cur or .ani) is found in @ResourcesCursors in the root config folder of a skin, it will be automatically loaded and available as an alternative for the standard “hand” pointer for meters or skins with a mouse action. The option can be used in any meter or the [Rainmeter] section with MouseActionCursorName=MyCursor.cur. No path definition is needed in the option. In addition, several built-in Windows cursors may be used without needing any file name or extension. (Hand, Text, Help, Busy, Cross, Pen)
• Changed @include behavior. Now the sections that the included file has are inserted at the position where the @include is defined in the .ini file. see @Include for details.
• FreeDiskSpace: Changed the measure to obey user account disk quotas in Windows. A new DiskQuota option will allow disk quotas to be ignored on “free / used” space if set to DiskQuota=0.
• Made the second parameter of the !ActivateConfig bang optional. If the second parameter is not given, !ActivateConfig will switch to the next variant in the folder.
• !SetOption now supports changing X, Y, Hidden and MeasureName(n) on meters
• Lua: Fixed that GetMeter/GetMeasure/GetVariable functions do not correctly return nil on error.
• Script Measure: Fixed that Initialize() was not called again when the ScriptName is changed dynamically.