It shouldn't. Unless the taskbar is hidden on one of the desktops or one has a different screen resolution. But isn't the Rainmeter feature kind of broken anyway, if it relies on Windows never refreshing the work area? @Dapper: You could try DesktopCoral . Assign it to all desktops as mentioned her...

Patrick wrote::dex:

No, Dexpot doesn't change the work area at all. Is this really the question though? Individual work areas per desktop?

Does Dexpot cause a System Refresh at anytime? Just wondering because that would cause the loss of Rainmeter's DesktopWorkArea setting.

Patrick, is Dexpot capable of setting the DesktopWorkArea on a per desktop basis? If so would it be much trouble to have a setting for it in VDMConfig.ini?

I haven't had time to test this, and may not this week I'm preparing for a trip. Leaving tonight and coming back on Monday. Some questions. Does the Screenshot measure create a new screenshot at every update?

Patrick wrote:You cannot leave off any of the paramters to SendMessage.

That could be problematic then. It would require a full set of variables...

Desktop1Switch=1803 1 0
Desktop2Switch=1803 2 0
etc

Regarding your example: Can the window message plugin use both the window title and the class name to identify the target window? I believe it is "either or" at the moment, if both would be more beneficial we could see about getting that changed. Also, for other VDMs, the "SwitchDesk...

Possible good news first. I think we can use Window Messages rather than command line if that is preferable. It does seem to be just a touch quicker on my system. We would do this by having you write the Variables to the file... [Variables] VDMHandle=Dexpot - Main Menu SwitchDesktop=1803 0 ;last par...

Have you guys signed up at our forum yet? I'd like for you to have an account so I can give you access to our Forum Devs section where we post private test builds before releasing public betas.

Patrick wrote:Ha, maybe you have to integrate Rainmeter with some sort of scripting language first.

Yeah, that has been discussed but no one has stepped up to try to implement it yet.

I think it can be done with a series of calc measures, but I haven't had time yet to really map it out.

This may make skin building a bit more interesting. It may require multiple versions of the skin that are automatically switched depending on the value of a Grid= key. We may need this Grid=1 Columns=2 Rows=2 added to the ini. It should be fun trying to get a skin to automatically arrange meters to ...

Quite a few VDMs (possibly Dexpot 1.6 as well) organize their desktops in a grid layout. So you actually have a number of rows and columns of desktops. If a skins represents the desktops graphically in some way, it might want to use the same layout. We could store this information in addition to th...

Any new insight on the "how to locate the .ini file" issue? If skins get to use a #SETTINGSPATH# variable, a cross-process communication variant of that for addons would only be fair... :D We're going to have a little delay, but I'm pretty sure we can get you window message access to the ...

Ok... do you think we're ready to draft a specification of the VDM.ini file format and the commands the "VDMCMD" has to support? I think so. I have to head back to work now, should be home in 5-6 hrs. Any new insight on the "how to locate the .ini file" issue? If skins get to us...

How would the skin know that a desktop switch occured? Well there are a couple of ways we could do it currently. 1. DynamicVariables , a fairly new addition to Rainmeter which monitors a variable for changes on each update. @Include=#SETTINGSPATH#VDM.ini will get the variables into the skin. and Dy...

It's just that in one direction we only care about the most basic feature of all VDMs, the notion of multiple desktops, while in the other direction, skins might want to use features specific to a particular VDM. That makes a truly universal solution in the second direction a lot harder to find. I ...

I wanted to set things up in a way that any skin created to interface with a VDM would work with any VDM, so that in the future if another VDM comes along that wants to support Rainmeter there is already a standard way of doing it. "Controlling virtual desktop managers through Rainmeter skins&...

I wanted to set things up in a way that any skin created to interface with a VDM would work with any VDM, so that in the future if another VDM comes along that wants to support Rainmeter there is already a standard way of doing it. Meaning if someone created a skin now to control Dexpot, then Virtua...

Other than that it's ugly and wasteful? :wink: We could probably use a file system change notification instead. How does Rainmeter itself handle this? I had thought of another solution. Keep in mind I'm trying to keep these changes open to being used by any VD app. My idea was to have you write the...

Ok, we've bounced some ideas around and want to run a concept by you guys. We would add a VDesktop= key to each config in the ini. It's default value would be *. Which would mean "All Desktops" (if a different value would work better for you that would be fine) It would also take comma sep...