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New String Case options?

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Cariboudjan
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New String Case options?

Post by Cariboudjan »

On top of UPPER, LOWER, PROPER, etc. how about also SENTENCE, OPPOSITE, and ALTERNATING?

Sentence = Sentence case
Opposite = oPOSSITE cASE
Alternating = aLtErNeTiNg CaSe
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Re: New String Case options?

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Cariboudjan wrote: December 6th, 2019, 10:54 pm On top of UPPER, LOWER, PROPER, etc. how about also SENTENCE, OPPOSITE, and ALTERNATING?

Sentence = Sentence case
Opposite = oPOSSITE cASE
Alternating = aLtErNeTiNg CaSe
I agree if this is possible. In some cases could be a useful possibility. :thumbup:
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Re: New String Case options?

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Sentence case you can get today with InlineSettings. I'm not opposed to adding that and the others to the StringCase option of the String meter, but I'm not sure how high a priority that would get. I would also note that Alternating would really need two variants...
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Re: New String Case options?

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In the meantime, if you have a real need for this, Lua can do the job...

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

[Variables]

[Lua]
Measure=Script
ScriptFile=StringCase.lua
Disabled=1

[MeasureString]
Measure=String
String=Upper and Lower Case

[MeterString]
Meter=String
FontSize=11
FontWeight=400
FontColor=255,255,255,255
SolidColor=47,47,47,255
Padding=5,5,5,5
AntiAlias=1
DynamicVariables=1
Text=[MeasureString]#CRLF#[&Lua:Opposite('[&MeasureString]')]#CRLF#[&Lua:AlternateL('[&MeasureString]')]#CRLF#[&Lua:AlternateU('[&MeasureString]')]
StringCase.lua:

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function Opposite(inString)

	outString = ''
	
	for i = 1, string.len(inString) do

		oneChar = string.sub(inString, i, i)
		if oneChar == string.upper(oneChar) then
			outString = outString..string.lower(oneChar)
		else
			outString = outString..string.upper(oneChar)
		end

	end

	return outString

end

function AlternateL(inString)

	outString = ''
	altFlag = 0
	
	for i = 1, string.len(inString) do

		oneChar = string.sub(inString, i, i)
		if altFlag == 0 then 
			outString = outString..string.lower(oneChar)
		else 
			outString = outString..string.upper(oneChar)
		end
		
		if string.upper(oneChar) ~= string.lower(oneChar) then altFlag = 1-altFlag end

	end

	return outString

end

function AlternateU(inString)

	outString = ''
	altFlag = 0
	
	for i = 1, string.len(inString) do

		oneChar = string.sub(inString, i, i)
		if altFlag == 0 then 
			outString = outString..string.upper(oneChar)
		else 
			outString = outString..string.lower(oneChar)
		end
		
		if string.upper(oneChar) ~= string.lower(oneChar) then altFlag = 1-altFlag end

	end

	return outString

end

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Re: New String Case options?

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jsmorley wrote: December 7th, 2019, 2:49 pm In the meantime, if you have a real need for this, Lua can do the job...
Lua definitely can :thumbup: , but it would be nice to not to have to use Lua. Many times would be much easier.
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Re: New String Case options?

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balala wrote: December 7th, 2019, 2:56 pm Lua definitely can :thumbup: , but it would be nice to not to have to use Lua. Many times would be much easier.
Certainly...

Using Lua or InlineSetting does have some additional flexibility though. For instance, you could easily have it just make all instances of a particular character or a particular substring within the string change case, where the StringCase option is kinda all-or-nothing.

The real disadvantage with Lua for this is that the string.upper()/string.lower() functions only work on English ASCII characters (basically a-zA-Z). ö/Ö for instance won't work right. Verily, Lua was definitely born in, and lives in, an earlier age...

I really think that if there was going to be any change in how Rainmeter works, I would vote for adding the new variants to InlineSetting, in addition to, or perhaps even rather than, StringCase. StringCase feels very brute-force to me.
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Re: New String Case options?

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doN't fOrGET rAnDOm CAsE :D
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Re: New String Case options?

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jsmorley wrote: December 7th, 2019, 2:57 pm I really think that if there was going to be any change in how Rainmeter works, I would vote for adding the new variants to InlineSetting, in addition to, or perhaps even rather than, StringCase. StringCase feels very brute-force to me.
That's good as well, because with any of these no additional measures / meters are needed. Lua instead is requiring at least one such additional measure, plus a script file. I don't say can1t be done, however as I said, would be much easier with StringCase or InlineSetting.
jsmorley wrote: December 7th, 2019, 2:57 pm StringCase feels very brute-force to me.
Why?
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Re: New String Case options?

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balala wrote: December 7th, 2019, 6:52 pm Why?
Simply because it must always act on the entire contents of the text being displayed in the meter. InlineSetting / InlinePattern is much more flexible about what text is impacted.

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[MeterString]
Meter=String
FontSize=11
FontWeight=400
FontColor=255,255,255,255
SolidColor=47,47,47,255
Padding=5,5,5,5
AntiAlias=1
Text=i'm sentence case, i'm upper case
InlineSetting=Case | Sentence
InlinePattern=^(.*),
InlineSetting2=Case | Upper
InlinePattern2=, (.*)$


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Re: New String Case options?

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jsmorley wrote: December 7th, 2019, 6:57 pm Simply because it must always act on the entire contents of the text being displayed in the meter. InlineSetting / InlinePattern is much more flexible about what text is impacted.
Yeah, right. Good point...