Noob Needing a Scrollbar

tjhuntley · Post by **tjhuntley** » December 2nd, 2019, 4:12 pm

Apologies in advance for not knowing any script for rainmeter. I searched for a widget that would work with Google Sheets and came up empty. (If anyone knows of one, please let me know.) However, I found one that works with google calendar. So I am sending info to calendar then to rainmeter. I have my info displayed on my desktop now but I need 50 lines and it only allows 8 or it stretches and looks horrible and covers up other information. All I need is a scrollbar and a way to keep it from stretching. Is this possible? Also, if you provide a code, please let me know where to drop it into my existing ini. Thanks in advance and if anyone needs help with google sheets formulas, I am your guy.

Post by **balala** » December 2nd, 2019, 4:29 pm

tjhuntley wrote: ↑December 2nd, 2019, 4:12 pm However, I found one that works with google calendar. So I am sending info to calendar then to rainmeter. I have my info displayed on my desktop now but I need 50 lines and it only allows 8 or it stretches and looks horrible and covers up other information.

Which is the skin you found? First post a link please.

tjhuntley · Post by **tjhuntley** » December 3rd, 2019, 2:50 am

balala wrote: ↑December 2nd, 2019, 4:29 pm Which is the skin you found? First post a link please.

Here is the ONLY Google Calendar Widget I have found: https://visualskins.com/skin/google-calendar

tjhuntley · Post by **tjhuntley** » December 3rd, 2019, 3:02 am

Here is a screenshot of it if it helps. I was able to format everything to my satisfaction but I need to have at least 42 more lines. After adding them, it looks stretched out so I really need a scrollbar or rolling text os something like that.

Yamajac · Post by **Yamajac** » December 3rd, 2019, 3:49 am

I have a "scrollbar" in this skin.

You can't drag the scrollbar around, but it moves as you scroll with the mousewheel.

It's a reasonably simple skin, but the basic overview is as follows;

The [Container] meter is the skin's bounding box, basically. The different configs get drawn in this and everything drawn outside the container is just culled.
The [Show] meter is all of the configs. I use a #CRLF# character between each line to make it draw on a new line, but you could just have multiple meters and have their Y values all based on a variable with a few small changes.
When we scroll up/down we move the [Show] meter down/up, making sure to not let it go up/down too far and disappear.
The scrollbar's drawn in a separate container and the y value + height are determined based on the y value + height of the [Show] meter.

Mor3bane · Post by **Mor3bane** » December 3rd, 2019, 7:54 am

Yamajac wrote: ↑December 3rd, 2019, 3:49 am I have a "scrollbar" in this skin.

You can't drag the scrollbar around, but it moves as you scroll with the mousewheel.

It's a reasonably simple skin, but the basic overview is as follows;

The [Container] meter is the skin's bounding box, basically. The different configs get drawn in this and everything drawn outside the container is just culled.

The [Show] meter is all of the configs. I use a #CRLF# character between each line to make it draw on a new line, but you could just have multiple meters and have their Y values all based on a variable with a few small changes.

When we scroll up/down we move the [Show] meter down/up, making sure to not let it go up/down too far and disappear.

The scrollbar's drawn in a separate container and the y value + height are determined based on the y value + height of the [Show] meter.

NOICE

mak_kawa · Post by **mak_kawa** » December 3rd, 2019, 8:48 am

I think Rainmeter needs a new meter "TextBox" to handle long text with real scroll bars...

tjhuntley · Post by **tjhuntley** » December 3rd, 2019, 12:12 pm

Yamajac wrote: ↑December 3rd, 2019, 3:49 am I have a "scrollbar" in this skin.

You can't drag the scrollbar around, but it moves as you scroll with the mousewheel.

It's a reasonably simple skin, but the basic overview is as follows;

The [Container] meter is the skin's bounding box, basically. The different configs get drawn in this and everything drawn outside the container is just culled.

The [Show] meter is all of the configs. I use a #CRLF# character between each line to make it draw on a new line, but you could just have multiple meters and have their Y values all based on a variable with a few small changes.

When we scroll up/down we move the [Show] meter down/up, making sure to not let it go up/down too far and disappear.

The scrollbar's drawn in a separate container and the y value + height are determined based on the y value + height of the [Show] meter.

Hey, thanks! This is exatly what I am needing. However, I cannot get it to work with the other Rainmeter where I am pulling in the info from google calendar. I know this sounds like a dumb question to most of you, but I have never combined two widgets before. How do I take the code from the scrollbar and place it into (and where) the code for the calendar widget?

Post by **eclectic-tech** » December 4th, 2019, 4:35 pm

tjhuntley wrote: ↑December 3rd, 2019, 12:12 pm Hey, thanks! This is exatly what I am needing. However, I cannot get it to work with the other Rainmeter where I am pulling in the info from google calendar. I know this sounds like a dumb question to most of you, but I have never combined two widgets before. How do I take the code from the scrollbar and place it into (and where) the code for the calendar widget?

Scrolling may be something I look at adding, but in the meantime you can achieve it by making these changes to Gcalendar.ini

Steps:
1.) Create a new variable named 'FirstY' in the [Variables] section and set it's value to 8.

2.) Add 'Container=BackgroundContainer' to the [StyleReaderText], [StyleReaderTextSubheading], and [StyleReaderTextSubtext] sections.

3.) Change [StyleReaderTextFirst] section Y value to 'Y=#FirstY#'

4.) Change [StyleReaderGrabberFirst] Y value to 'Y=284'

5.) Add the new code section below just before the [ItemWhat1] section in the code.

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[BackgroundContainer]
Meter=IMAGE
ImageName=#@#Images\SkinBackground.#ColorImage#.png
ScaleMargins=12,12,12,12
Y=36
W=#SidebarWidth#
H=(39 * (#NumOfItems#-1.5))
MouseScrollUpAction=[!SetVariable FirstY (Clamp(#FirstY#+16,-1250,8))][!UpdateMeter *][!Redraw]
MouseScrollDownAction=[!SetVariable FirstY (Clamp(#FirstY#-16,-1250,8))][!UpdateMeter *][!Redraw]
DynamicVariables=1

Add as many new item measures to capture more info, and add [ItemWhat#] and [ItemWhen#] meter sections as you want below the current 8 sets.

This change should support about 50 items using '-1250' as the low clamp value in the Mouse Scroll bangs of the new [BackgroundContainer] section. If more are desired, simply change that value to a lower value.

What this does is define a container area positioned below the header and above the grabbers approximately the same size as 8 items. It sets the first item position equal to 'FirstY' variable. When you scroll the mouse over this area, the value of 'FirstY' will increase/decrease. This will position [ItemWhat1] at a new Y position (relative to the container). All other items are relative to the Y position of [ItemWhat1], so they will also change.

GCalScroll.gif

EDIT: Added image to post

Spoiler contains these changes and a repeat of the 8 items to show the scroll action and as a reference...

tjhuntley · Post by **tjhuntley** » December 6th, 2019, 8:17 pm

Thanks for taking the time to post this. This will work perfectly for me if I can get it to work. I think it's not working correctly due to some modifications I made within the skin. Also, it could be because I currently have 3 items in this feed perhaps? It changes every few hours and ranges from 0 to 50. Not sure if that's the reason or not.

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