How to make a program load a rainmeter skin? (Looking for anything but a compiled AHK script)

Question

That's basically it, I'm using NTX's Scout and Lock Screen as a replacement for Launchy and win10's lock screen, and I want to be able to load it from running a program. I don't want to write an AHK script. The directories get weird with multiple .ini skin files when I try to use AHK. How can I do this?

Answer 1

In the end I ended up using AHK and made

Run,
C:\Program Files\Rainmeter\Rainmeter.exe !ToggleConfig "NXT-OS\Scout" "Scout.ini"
ExitApp

but if anyone sees this and dosen't want to use AHK but use a shortcut, you can make a shortcut to the skin itself with the directory looking like this:

"$drive:\$folder\Rainmeter\Rainmeter.exe" !ToggleConfig "$skinpath" "$skin.ini"