Improve Meter Styles.

[lysy1993lbn]

I'm just wondering is possible to improve meter styles to use several in one meter / string..

For example to use like in html, in that way:

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[Meter]
Meter=String
MeasureName=mCPU
MeterStyle=Style
MeterStyle2=Style2
Text=<s1>CPU</s1><s2>%1%</s2>

To get for example "CPU 22%"

I really miss something like that in Rainmeter, and I think that I'm not only one..

[jsmorley]

In the current environment, "inline" formatting is just not possible. The output of a meter is not some stream of characters rendered a character at a time as it is displayed, but really a graphical "object" built all at once and displayed more or less as an image.

It would take an entirely different approach to how Rainmeter works to accomplish HTML/CSS type formatting. You never know though..

[lysy1993lbn]

Really pity.. it seems to be really basic, to make even bold text next to normal..

Looking forward for changes / improvements to make it possible..

[r0k]

Using two meters with the second one's position relative to the first would do the trick for fixed width strings such as this example (length of text wouldn't change much)

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[Meter]
Meter=String
MeasureName=mCPU
MeterStyle=Style1
Text=CPU

[Meter2]
Meter=String
x=R
MeterStyle=Style2
Text=%

For variable lenght text you might use a fixed width font and measure the legnth with a lua script. This becomes more of hassle.

Maybe if it's possible, having some sort of auto-resizing of string meters based on actual (pixel) size of the text would help work around this limitation.

[lysy1993lbn]

I know actual text formatting methods.. Is simply not good enough in some cases..