Help: Rainmeter Skins • Re: Button image

You can turn an icon based Image meter into a "button" by simply adding a mouse action to it and execute the desired bangs there (in your case, probably a LeftMouseUpAction where you !SetOption the ImageName option of your actual Image meter accordingly, !UpdateMeter that meter and !Redraw the skin). So, on click, your icon meter would change the displayed image in the picture meter as desired.

As for the visual effect of "opening" and "closing" on subsequent clicks, you could just toggle the hidden state of your picture meter via the !ToggleMeter bang. In other words, you can add the proper !ToggleMeter to the above LeftMouseUpAction option.

Since only hiding the picture meter does leave / preserve the "empty space" below it when the following meter is positioned using R relative positioning, to make your approach simpler, you could place the icon meter above your picture meter in the skin. To make sure the skin is changing its size when you hide the picture, you could use DynamicWindowSize=1 in the [Rainmeter] section of your skin.

References:
- https://docs.rainmeter.net/manual/meters/image/
- https://docs.rainmeter.net/manual/mouse-actions/#LeftMouseUpAction
- https://docs.rainmeter.net/manual/bangs/#SetOption
- https://docs.rainmeter.net/manual/bangs/#UpdateMeter
- https://docs.rainmeter.net/manual/bangs/#Redraw
- https://docs.rainmeter.net/manual/bangs/#ShowHideToggleMeter

Statistics: Posted by Yincognito — Today, 2:08 pm

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