SKIN:Bang() and strings question

[FlyingHyrax]

This works:

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SKIN:Bang('[!SetOption meterSomeString FontColor 250,100,100][!Update][!Redraw]')

This does not:

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action = '[!SetOption meterSomeString FontColor 250,100,100][!Update][!Redraw]'
SKIN:Bang("'" .. action .. "'")

What am I missing?

[jsmorley]

This works:

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SKIN:Bang('[!SetOption meterSomeString FontColor 250,100,100][!Update][!Redraw]')

This does not:

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action = '[!SetOption meterSomeString FontColor 250,100,100][!Update][!Redraw]'
SKIN:Bang("'" .. action .. "'")

What am I missing?

Try:

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action = '[!SetOption meterSomeString FontColor 250,100,100][!Update][!Redraw]'
SKIN:Bang(action)

Not sure why you are trying to send single quotes to Rainmeter. Aside from not needing them, Rainmeter doesn't understand them anyway.

The single quotes on this:

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SKIN:Bang('[!SetOption meterSomeString FontColor 250,100,100][!Update][!Redraw]')

Are just to define the string in Lua, Rainmeter never sees them.

In this:

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action = '[!SetOption meterSomeString FontColor 250,100,100][!Update][!Redraw]'
SKIN:Bang(action)

the variable action is defined as a string in the first line, and then just used in the second.

[FlyingHyrax]

Not sure why you are trying to send single quotes to Rainmeter. Aside from not needing them, Rainmeter doesn't understand them anyway.

Ah. Quite right. It's always something obvious (or just plain silly) in hindsight, you know?

Thanks for being here to answer all these questions. The amount of time you spend on this forum is pretty incredible. You have the patience of a saint!

Edit: I mean, geez: