Download Rainmeter 4.0 r2746

The final release of Rainmeter version 4.0 has been released. This program can display all kinds of useful, but also less meaningful information on the desktop in real time, such as free hard drive space, network activity and whether there is new e-mail. Functional applets can also be used to, for example, make notes or send tweets. In version 4.0, support for Windows XP and Vista has been discontinued. Furthermore, to improve performance and security, most external plugins will be replaced by internal variants called measures. The main changes made in version 4.0 can be found below.

Shape Meter
This new meter type draws shapes using vector graphics. This includes Rectangles, Ellipses, Arcs, Bézier curves and Paths. See the documentation at: Shape Meterand other details and examples at Change Announcements.

New Skin Dialog
This new dialog is opened with the Create new skin button in Manage, or by using the context menus on existing folders. This will allow you to add new root-level folders and skin files, or add folders or files to existing skins. see New Skin for details.

Inline Shadow
Added shadow InlineSetting type to String meter Inline options. This will allow you to add a drop shadow to all or part of a string.

Inline String Case
Added case InlineSetting type to String meter Inline options. This will allow you to set the string case to one of Lower, Upper, Proper, or Sentence for all or part of the displayed text.

Domain / Workgroup
Added DOMAINWORKGROUP SysInfoType value to the SysInfo plugin. This will return either the “domain” or “workgroup” set for the system.

Not Enough Substrings
Added LogSubstringErrors WebParser parent measure option. If set to “0”, this will suppress logging of “Not enough substring” errors. This can be useful when for instance you are using lookahead assertions in a regular expression, and missing (captures) should not be treated as an “error”.

User Agent String
Added UserAgent WebParser parent measure option to allow setting a custom User Agent String.

HTTP Headers
Added Header1, Header2, Header3… WebParser parent measure option to allow setting custom HTTP Header Fields.

Auto Select Screen
Added AutoSelectScreen and AutoSelectScreenGroup scared.

Network Adapter Type
Added a new ADAPTER_TYPE SysInfoType option for the SysInfo plugin. This will return the adapter type (Ethernet or Wireless) as both string and number values. Details can be found at Change Announcements.

Limiting Input Text
Added InputLimit (default 0) option to limit the number of characters input, and InputNumber (default 0) option to force numeric-only input.

Lua Scripting Changes
We corrected an issue where anything defined in the Initialize() function of a Lua script was treated as “global” across all skins using Lua, which could cause “bleeding” of defined variables between skins, or between script measures in a single skin. Each Lua measure will now run in an entirely separate local context. This change to the context of each Lua measure in a skin has allowed for the use of the Lua dofile function in your scripts.

Other enhancements and fixes in Rainmeter 4.0

• String meter: Fixed a problem parsing the * (skip) parameter in the CharacterSpacing feature of InlineSetting.
• String meter: Corrected an issue where ClipString=1 was not working correctly if W (width) was defined without defining H (height).
• String meter: Changed the number of degrees of angle in InlineSetting Gradients to allow fractional numbers. (eg 45.5).
• String meter: Changed the default value for InlinePattern(N) to .* (the entire string) when the option is left off or set to “”. This will allow you to set an InlineSetting on the entire string value without needing to define any matching InlinePattern.
• String meter: Corrected a bug that would not properly adjust a GradientColor InlineSetting when the width or height of the meter was changed but the string value was not.
• RunCommand plugin: Corrected a rare issue when the command is run by OnCloseAction, where Rainmeter would unexpectedly terminate and the command not execute.
• About dialog: Corrected an issue where tab characters were not being correctly displayed in the Log and Skins panels.
• Rainmeter: Corrected a rare issue where skins might be loaded with only partial opacity when Windows is first started.
• Rainmeter: The Rainmeter notification area icon is forced to be visible any time there are no skins loaded in Rainmeter. This will temporarily override any setting for “Show notification area icon” in Manage. This change is to eliminate the possibility that a user could turn off the tray icon and then unload all skins, thus no longer having any way to interact with Rainmeter.