The manual is complete (as best as I can tell, but it seems to be written for the folks who know the language (the high level Rainmeter Language) and serves well as reference for looking up the "rules" when you don't remember. I can't yet extrapolate how to put the elements together and there isn't an example code for every element... so you can tell me that !SetOption is for updating an option ex: [!SetOption Meter Text New Text]
That is 100% acurate and helpful but where do i put this line of code and can the new text be a dynamic variable? ...
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CoffeeJoe wrote: ↑November 9th, 2019, 1:24 am
where do i put this line of code
Unfortunately there is not possible to post an example to every thing you can meet. There are so many possibilities that this is practically impossible. That's probably why this forum has been launched, to let users to get answers to their questions.
So, the answer to your is that where do you put that !SetOption bang, depends: you can put it into a (for instance) LeftMouseUpAction option of a meter, in which case it will be executed when you click to that meter. Or to an IfTrueAction / IfFalseAction option of a measure. In this case it will be executed when the condition become true / false. As you can see there can be many many cases where and how to use it, depending on what do you want to achieve.
CoffeeJoe wrote: ↑November 9th, 2019, 1:24 am
can the new text be a dynamic variable? ...
Yes, new text can be dynamic, however you should take into account that if you want to set the value of a dynamically changing variable or a measure, you have to use Escaping variables. For instance if MyVariable is a dynamically changing variable and you want to set its value to the Text option of a String meter, instead of [!SetOption MyStringMeter Text "#MyVariable#"] you have to use [!SetOption MyStringMeter Text "#*MyVariable*#"].
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