Lua for conditional operators with strings as result.

[RicardoTM]

Ouch, it was that bad?
Just joking, may he live to throw better and better parties - and thanks! A good mystery is sometimes more interesting than mundane stuff, though both should be appreciated while they last.

I organized the party at home lol I should call it family reunion though. He turned 39 and has never thrown a party, at least not that I know Fortunately there's many years ahead for him to throw one at least once.

I do enjoy spending time with my family and I appreciate it, it's just that I enjoy a good mistery way more than having mundane conversations. Some good jokes were present though, so no wasted time whatsoever .

Anyway, returning to the topic of this thread. I couldn't test the idea I had with the function I wrote earlier. It didn't work, it was brilliant on my mind

Now I can't come up with anything to call the lua's math() function from rainmeter, to be more clear:

If the SectionIndex function is used in some position option that requires a formula, it will log a invalid formula error on first load and refresh, so the idea is to use lua for the math as well, that way rainmeter would think that position option equals 0 on first load and refresh and wouldn't log any error.

To be more clear:

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[Meter5]
...
Y=45

[Meter5Something]
H=45
...
Y=([Meter[&S:SI()]:Y]+[[#CurrentSection]:H])

That would log that [Meter0 - invalid formula - blah blah.

So my idea is to do:
Y=[&S:math([Meter[&S:SI()]:Y]+[[#CurrentSection]:H])]
That should not log any error.

[RicardoTM]

Just in case you read that I deleted all the previous post by mistake, I rewrote it lol

Edit.

I found the way:

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function Math(formula)
 return tonumber(formula)
 end

It was that easy lol

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[Test9]
...
Y=5

[Test9Something]
...
H=5
Y=[&C:Math(([&Test[&C:SI()]:Y]+[&[#CurrentSection]:H]))]
...
DynamicVariables=1

That will correctly do Y=10 without any errors.

[Yincognito]

Just in case you read that I deleted all the previous post by mistake, I rewrote it lol

Edit.

I found the way:

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function Math(formula)
 return tonumber(formula)
 end

It was that easy lol

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[Test9]
...
Y=5

[Test9Something]
...
H=5
Y=[&C:Math(([&Test[&C:SI()]:Y]+[&[#CurrentSection]:H]))]
...
DynamicVariables=1

That will correctly do Y=10 without any errors.

Nice - hopefully it will work for all cases. Me, I noticed that nesting inline Lua from Rainmeter can be tricky, but maybe it was just my scenario at the time.

[RicardoTM]

Nice - hopefully it will work for all cases. Me, I noticed that nesting inline Lua from Rainmeter can be tricky, but maybe it was just my scenario at the time.

Time will tell. For now it haven't caused any error at all.