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CASCADEx for Rainmeter [v1.3.2 | 17 March 2015]

Published: Oct 27, 2014

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What is CASCADEx?
This all-in-one widget was inspired by the quick music switcher on BlackBerry 10.3. From there, it was expanded to add a basic clock, Google search, Yahoo! Weather, network speeds, and a color picker. More features are going to be added soon, and this can be easily be done through the built-in update checker. It's very customizable too, you can change its size and colors. You can even set the background to a semi-transparent color!

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Click here to read the documentation.

Changelog

1.3.2 | 17 March 2015

Fixed code where Adaptive Resizing wasn't activated
Fixed progress bar movement on Spotify widget

1.3.1 | 12 March 2015

Added one decimal place for the percentage in the Spotify widget
Updated for the new Spotify updates
Added latest version of .raptor's Spotify plugin

1.3 | 3 November 2014

New widgets: Network and Color Picker
Middle click actions on all widgets is for launching Menu only
Added 24-hour time support on Clock -- activate by right-clicking
Updated values in Settings
Changed icon size in Menu for spacing

1.2 | 31 October 2014

New widget: Weather
Added Weather Settings in Settings panel
Auto update on widgets after changing values in Settings
Edited text field in Settings panel
Minor revisions to code in all widgets
Removed background in Menu and changed icon colors
Edited spacing in Menu
Added the latest Spotify plugin (according to author, there should be no problems)
Added layout as sample

1.1 | 30 October 2014

New widget: Google search
Music icon on Menu launches music player if there is no song loaded
Proper placeholder for value input in Settings panel.
Context menu on right-click in Music to open music player
Removed Spotify plugin, requesting approval from author for proper support
Right-click actions changed to middle-click to avoid conflict with context menus

1.0 | 27 October 2014

First release

Credits
.raptor from the Rainmeter Forums for his awesome Spotify plug-in available here.

Mordasius for his FeedReader II w/ sorting adaptation on Kaelri's reader script, for several inputs for enhancement

2bndy5 for the RGB Color Code Picker 1.1 on which the Color Picker is based on

Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License

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justinschoolfield

Apr 5, 2016

Hi, loving this so far, however I can't for the life of me get the Weather part to work.
Is there something wrong with it?

Redsaph

Apr 17, 2016

Hi, CASCADEx uses the Yahoo! Weather service. Due to their change in API access, the feed URLs are different.

Here is a guide in the Rainmeter forum on what to change the URLs.

Sadly due to the old age of CASCADEx, I have decided to stop support for it. Hope the link I gave would help

mzakiy86

Apr 29, 2015

Hi! How to setup background opacity. Example background opacity of Network.

Redsaph

Apr 29, 2015

Hi!

The background opacity has to be set manually since RainRGB cannot help you with that.

You go to wherever folder CASCADEx is in (Documents\Rainmeter\Skins\CascadeX\@ Resources\) and open color.inc, which contains all the colors used in CASCADEx.

Under the Global section, there is a variable named G-Background. The value is set in R,G,B,Opacity format. What you should be editing is the last few numbers of that value, with 0 being opaque and 255 the max transparent value.

Hope this helps

mzakiy86

Apr 29, 2015

thanks that's realy helping me. Thank you very much.

You're welcome

Hey there, some letters in the music name or even author name are bugged and are like simbols, can u maybe add some more characters like the portuguese ones? Ty so much

Redsaph

Apr 4, 2015

Hi! You can install the updated Spotify plugin here with support for the special characters or wait for the next CASCADEx update!

Bull3tzZ

Apr 4, 2015

Thank you so much! Even nicer the skin with this ^^

Thanks for this skin! I have finally found well done skin for QHD screen that isn't blury.

Redsaph

Mar 23, 2015

Haha! Thank you for trying CASCADEx out

Your comment could really be used as a testimony xD

yoGhurrt1

Mar 24, 2015

No problem. I had to disable autoscaling for Rainmeter and manually change skin resolution but then it finally looked ok.
One thing, why on deviantart you can only have 1.3.0 version? Update.ini is keep saying there is 1.3.2 version and on a download prompt, brings you back to deviant art so, also to older source.

Redsaph

Mar 25, 2015

Hi! I re-uploaded the rmskin in DeviantART. Can you check if it's alright now?

yoGhurrt1

Mar 25, 2015

Try again. This time i see only 0x0 description under "download" like it was some image file. Maybe deviantart screwed sth.

Redsaph

Mar 26, 2015

Sorry, but it works fine on my end.

yoGhurrt1

Mar 26, 2015

Then it was probably deviantart fault because now when i download, everything was fine. I also can confirm that now it is right, 1.3.2 version.
Now i can start thinking about adding some network graph, ssid and total upload/download transfer to this skin.

Redsaph

Mar 27, 2015

Cool! I'd love to see what you come up with