Rainmeter 3.3 Beta: What's New

In this latest update, Rainmeter introduces several exciting features and improvements to enhance your skin-building experience. As you read on, discover what's new in Rainmeter 3.3 beta.

One notable change is the DynamicWindowSize feature. With this update, you can define specific dimensions for a skin, ensuring that any meters or parts of meters positioned outside these boundaries will be truncated. This constraint helps keep your skin within the defined limits.

New additions to skins include SkinWidth and SkinHeight options in the skin section. These options allow you to customize the width and height of your skin, giving you more flexibility when designing your layouts.

The Fixed Quote plugin has been updated to resolve an issue where Unicode characters could be mistaken for end-of-file control characters, causing string truncation. This fix ensures accurate text retrieval from files.

For Windows 10 users, the SysInfoType=OS_VERSION option in the Changed SysInfo plugin now supports the latest operating system version. This enhancement provides more comprehensive information about your system.

In the realm of Tooltips, Rainmeter has corrected two issues: removing a ToolTipTitle with !SetOption no longer fails, and dynamic values for ToolTipTitles are now updated correctly.

The Context options have been revised to increase the maximum number of ContextTitle N/ContextAction N pairs from 15 to 25. This expansion allows you to create more complex contexts for your skins.

It's essential to note that if you're using distributed skins with the Rainmeter plugin, you should update them before releasing Rainmeter 3.3. Additionally, HWiNFO plugin users must upgrade to the latest version (3.0) and SharedMemoryViewer.exe found in the corresponding post.

The Rainmeter project has been upgraded to use Visual Studio 2015 for development, which has led to some exciting new features. The Time measure option now includes additional Format Codes, providing more flexibility when working with time-based measures.

The RunCommand plugin is a new addition to Rainmeter, allowing you to execute and obtain values from external commands and programs. You can find details and examples in the related post.

Another significant update is the ActionTimer plugin, which supports animations and meter transitions. For more information on this feature, refer to the ActionTimer forum post.

Lastly, it's important to note that there's no need to uninstall any earlier version of Rainmeter to upgrade to 3.3 beta. You can safely install the new version right over your existing installation without losing or changing anything you've done previously.

With these exciting updates and improvements, Rainmeter 3.3 beta is set to enhance your skin-building experience like never before. Start exploring and creating today!

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