Software Update: Rainmeter 0.14 beta

A new beta version of Rainmeter has been released on the Rainy’s site. Rainmeter is a so-called ‘performance meter’ that can show various computer statistics, including network traffic, processor usage, uptime and hard disk space. The program can also show other information such as the weather and the time. Rainmeter can plot this information in a graph or bar, or display it in decimal numbers. A comprehensive manual of the program is available this page to find. Yesterday a new beta version of Rainmeter was released in the form of 0.14. This release can be downloaded for the 32bit as the 64bit versions from Windows. If you are not running Windows XP or higher, the installation of gdiplus.dll a requirement. Version 0.14 beta comes with the following changes:

Version 0.14 ß

• Web parser parses the files as UTF8 by default. The codepage can be changed with CodePage.
• Added proxy support for the web parser.
• The reference measures in Webparser can use RegExps to parse the substring.
• Fixed few graphics problems with the images.
• Fixed the background rendering bug and incompatibility problem with DynamicWindowSize.
• Some !bangs didn’t work during the first update cycle. Fixed.
• Fixed SSID and BANDWIDTH in the WirelessPlugin.
• WindowMessagePlugin uses PostMessage instead of SendMessage so now you can control Rainmeter with it too :-).
• Fixed couple of crashes with !RainmeterRefresh-bang.
• The plugin folder can be defined with RainmeterPluginPath in step.rc.
• The AdvancedCPU can show the process that currently takes the most CPU time.
• Substitutes are applied in the order they are defined.
• Fixed a crash with the PingPlugin and added TimeoutValue which defines the value on timeout.
• QuotePlugin can scan subfolders and it’s possible to filter the files by extension.
• The tray meter can load directly icon files.
• Fixed hit test in BITMAP measure when alignments are used.
• Format in TIME measure can show the time and date as locale specific string.
• Added OnRefreshAction which is executed when the config is refreshed.
• Fixed uptime in 64-bit build.

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