Nesting square brackets in actions

[slartibartfast]

I'm pulling my hair out trying to figure out how to make this work. Every syntax variation I've experimented with fails. Basically what I want to do is dynamically choose at runtime what to execute in response to a mouse up event.

Here is the basic, non-dynamic version of what I want:

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LeftMouseUpAction=["[MeasureRSS1ItemLink01]"]

Now what I want to do is abstract to another level by generating the last two characters in the measure name from another measure. Logic tells me that I have to take the MeasureRSS1ItemLink01 and change it to something like MeasureRSS1ItemLink[OtherMeasure], resulting in code like:

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DynamicVariables=1
LeftMouseUpAction=["[MeasureRSS1ItemLink[OtherMeasure]]"]

I have [OtherMeasure] generating 01-50 correctly, but this code doesn't work. I wondered if MeasureRSS1ItemLink[OtherMeasure] needed an extra set of brackets to evaluate it before the next level up gets hold of it:

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LeftMouseUpAction=["[[MeasureRSS1ItemLink[OtherMeasure]]]"]

...but that doesn't do it either. I have spent two days poring over Rainmeter docs and these forums, trying every syntax variation with brackets and quotes I can think of, but I still can't figure out how to do this, or if Rainmeter can even manage it.

Any gurus out there who can help me?

Slarti

[jsmorley]

No, you can't nest section names in a bang like that.

You can however nest a variable in a section name in a bang, so something like this:

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000

[Variables]
LinkVar=2

[MeasureLink1]
Measure=Time
Format=http://cnn.com

[MeasureLink2]
Measure=Time
Format=http://lifehacker.com

[Measure1or2]
Measure=Calc
Formula=Random
LowBound=1
HighBound=2
UpdateRandom=1

[MeterChoice]
Meter=Image
W=25
H=25
SolidColor=104,173,222,255
MouseOverAction=!SetVariable LinkVar [Measure1or2]
LeftMouseUpAction=["[MeasureLink#LinkVar#]"]
DynamicVariables=1

Would work. I have no idea how you are arriving at the number (represented by my little Measure1or2 fake with a random number) you are using, but you need to find some way to have it set the variable (in my example LinkVar) so the meter can dynamically use it.

[Honimoura]

(I'm french, so, it's automatic traduction, sorry)

Hello,
I know that this subject is several years old but I have a problem of the same kind and I can not find a solution ...


I use 2 folder scan to list shortcuts and images with the same name. Basically to create icons that are named and is illustrated automatically according to what is in the scanned folders.

I managed to scan both folders, list files, match each shortcuts with their respective images.

But (always a but) I had to tamper with my research so that the results of scans shortcuts do not give their extentions to then be able to recover the name and search the image while indicating that it could s 'call either:
# # .jpg Image
# # .jpeg picture
# # .png picture
Until then it works.
So when I want to tell him that by clicking on the image of the shortcut it launches the shortcut it does not work because the shortcut is not called "shortcut.lnk" but just "shortcut" ...
So I tried them:

(With or without ! Execute dont work)

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LeftMouseUpAction=!Execute ["#Dossier#Raccourci1#lnk###"]

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LeftMouseUpAction=!Execute ["#Dossier##Raccourci1##lnk#"]

Dossier is path Folder <- Variable in this .ini
Raccourci is shortcut <- variable in another .ini
lnk is the extention <- variable in another ini


In short I tested all kinds of conbinaisons and I can not ...

A little help would save me well.
Thank you.

[jsmorley]

https://docs.rainmeter.net/manual/variables/nesting-variables/

[Honimoura]

Thanks for your quick answer.
I have already looked and I do not know if the translation is erroned with google or if it is too complex but I tried with this tutorial and I did not succeed: s

[Honimoura]

I tried :

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LeftMouseUpAction=[[#Dossier[#Raccourci1[#LNK]]]]

And even if it looks good to me it does not work either

[jsmorley]

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
DynamicWindowSize=1
AccurateText=1

[Variables]
Dossier=C:\MyPath\
Raccourci=MyShortcut
lnk=.lnk

[MeterTest]
Meter=String
FontSize=11
FontWeight=400
FontColor=255,255,255,255
SolidColor=47,47,47,255
Padding=5,5,5,5
AntiAlias=1
Text=[#Dossier][#Raccourci][#lnk]
LeftMouseUpAction=["[#Dossier][#Raccourci][#lnk]"]

1.png

Though to be honest, I don't see any "nesting" going on here... Just concatenating.

[Honimoura]

I do not understand ... it does not work either.

Yet in text it displays well the right way, the good name and the good extention ...
To pull hair

[Honimoura]

On the other hand it is not text to display but an image serving as an icon but I do not think it's a problem break

[jsmorley]

I do not understand ... it does not work either.

Yet in text it displays well the right way, the good name and the good extention ...
To pull hair

Try temporarily changing the mouse action to:

LeftMouseUpAction=[!Log "[#Dossier][#Raccourci][#lnk]"]

Then click the link. What does it say in the About / Log?