How to change a Meter in another Skin

[krakoukas]

Hi Friends,

What is the best way to change a Meter attribute though another skin ?
Thanks for helping

David

[balala]

What is the best way to change a Meter attribute though another skin ?

Depends on how would you like to change it. You either have to use a !WriteKeyValue bang, if you want to make a permanent change, or a !SetOption bang for a dynamic change. Anyway you have to a last parameter to the appropriate bang, to tell it to apply the change into another skin then the current one:

• For permanent change: [!WriteKeyValue Variables VarToChange "NewValue" "#SKINSPATH#ConfigToChangeIn\SkinToChangeIn.ini"] (replace the VarToChange, NewValue and #SKINSPATH#ConfigToChangeIn\SkinToChangeIn.ini to whatever needed - hope you can figure out what are required here).
• For dynamic change: [!SetOption MeterToChangeIn OptionToChange "NewValue" "ConfigToChangeIn"] (same way you have to use the appropriate values for MeterToChangeIn, OptionToChange, NewValue and ConfigToChangeIn).

Note the difference: while in the !WriteKeyValue bang you have to write the full path of the file you want to write the change permanently, into the !SetOption bang you have to use only the name of the config which has the skin which contains the meter in which you want to make the dynamic change.

[krakoukas]

Depends on how would you like to change it. You either have to use a !WriteKeyValue bang, if you want to make a permanent change, or a !SetOption bang for a dynamic change. Anyway you have to a last parameter to the appropriate bang, to tell it to apply the change into another skin then the current one:

• For permanent change: [!WriteKeyValue Variables VarToChange "NewValue" "#SKINSPATH#ConfigToChangeIn\SkinToChangeIn.ini"] (replace the VarToChange, NewValue and #SKINSPATH#ConfigToChangeIn\SkinToChangeIn.ini to whatever needed - hope you can figure out what are required here).
• For dynamic change: [!SetOption MeterToChangeIn OptionToChange "NewValue" "ConfigToChangeIn"] (same way you have to use the appropriate values for MeterToChangeIn, OptionToChange, NewValue and ConfigToChangeIn).

Note the difference: while in the !WriteKeyValue bang you have to write the full path of the file you want to write the change permanently, into the !SetOption bang you have to use only the name of the config which has the skin which contains the meter in which you want to make the dynamic change.

Thanks Balala

I need dynamic changes. I tried both of these in LUA, but they don't work :

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	UploadTotalTorrent=**DEBUG**
	SKIN:Bang('!SetOption', 'Meter_Boite_04_Instantane', 'Text', UploadTotalTorrent, 'Ecran-1-Module-16-Ratio-Kodi')
	SKIN:Bang("!SetOption Meter_Boite_04_Instantane	Text \""..UploadTotalTorrent.."\" \"Ecran-1-Module-16-Ratio-Kodi\"")

Ecran-1-Module-16-Ratio-Kodi is my INI file for skin (Ecran-1-Module-16-Ratio-Kodi.ini) :

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	[Meter_Boite_04_Instantane]
	Meter=String
	; MeasureName=MeasureUp
	MeterStyle=Style-Boite
	x=37r
	Y=-2r
	Text=15 xxx
	NumOfDecimals=1
	AutoScale=1

Interesting but no example : https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?f=119&t=9104&start=20

[jsmorley]

!SetOption doesn't know or care about .ini files. It acts on the config name of the skin.

[krakoukas]

!SetOption doesn't know or care about .ini files. It acts on the config name of the skin.

GREAT ! Thank you JsMorley !

This syntax works for me with a BANG :

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SKIN:Bang('!SetOption', 'Meter_Boite_04_Instantane', 'Text', UploadTotalTorrent, 'PRED\\Ecran-1-Module-16-Ratio-Kodi')

[jsmorley]

GREAT ! Thank you JsMorley !

This syntax works for me with a BANG :

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SKIN:Bang('!SetOption', 'Meter_Boite_04_Instantane', 'Text', UploadTotalTorrent, 'PRED\\Ecran-1-Module-16-Ratio-Kodi')

Great. Note that this is a case, where you are defining an element of a string in Lua, where the reserved \ character must be escaped with \\ in order to get the literal \ to be passed.

[balala]

This syntax works for me with a BANG :

I'm glad you've got it working.