Randomly Moving Text

[twiglet015]

Hi all, it's my first time posting. I haven't been using Rainmeter for very long, still learning, so I hope this is a simple problem with a simple fix.

I'm having a problem with a date string. I notice that the day/month/numbers move on their x axis randomly day to day. E.g. one day I will set them so they are as far apart as I want them, then the next they will be overlapping.

I'm using Rainmeter version 2.2.0 on 64-bit Windows 7.

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[Rainmeter]
Author=Falconer
Update=1000
AppVersion=1000000

[Metadata]
Name=Date
Config=Elementary | Date
Description=day, month, and date.
Instructions=
Version=beta
Tags=basic | elementary | clean | Century Gothic | Date
License=Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0

[Variables]
@include=#RootConfigPath#\Group1\Variables.inc

;--------Measures--------

[MeasureDay]
Measure=Time
Format=%A,

[MeasureMonth]
Measure=Time
Format=%B

[MeasureDate]
Measure=Time
Format=%#d


;--------Meters--------

[MeterDay]
MeasureName=MeasureDay
Meter=STRING
X=0
Y=0
FontColor=#Color#
FontSize=22
FontFace=#Font#
StringAlign=LEFT
StringStyle=#Style#
StringEffect=#Effect#
FontEffectColor=#EffectColor#
AntiAlias=1

[MeterMonth]
MeasureName=MeasureMonth
Meter=STRING
X=100r
Y=0
FontColor=#Color#
FontSize=22
FontFace=#Font#
StringAlign=LEFT
StringStyle=#Style#
StringEffect=#Effect#
FontEffectColor=#EffectColor#
AntiAlias=1

[MeterDate]
MeasureName=MeasureDate
Meter=STRING
X=172
Y=0
FontColor=#Color#
FontSize=22
FontFace=#Font#
StringAlign=LEFT
StringStyle=#Style#
StringEffect=#Effect#
FontEffectColor=#EffectColor#
AntiAlias=1

If the X axis values seem random, it's from me trying to fix it.



Thanks!

[jsmorley]

You can use the "R" option on the X value to have a meter position relative to the previous meter in the .ini.

So if you do it like this:

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[MeterDay]
MeasureName=MeasureDay
Meter=STRING
X=0
Y=0
FontColor=#Color#
FontSize=22
FontFace=#Font#
StringAlign=LEFT
StringStyle=#Style#
StringEffect=#Effect#
FontEffectColor=#EffectColor#
AntiAlias=1

[MeterMonth]
MeasureName=MeasureMonth
Meter=STRING
X=0R
Y=0
FontColor=#Color#
FontSize=22
FontFace=#Font#
StringAlign=LEFT
StringStyle=#Style#
StringEffect=#Effect#
FontEffectColor=#EffectColor#
AntiAlias=1

[MeterDate]
MeasureName=MeasureDate
Meter=STRING
X=0R
Y=0
FontColor=#Color#
FontSize=22
FontFace=#Font#
StringAlign=LEFT
StringStyle=#Style#
StringEffect=#Effect#
FontEffectColor=#EffectColor#
AntiAlias=1

Then the meters will always position one after the other no matter how long any given meter is on any given day or month.

Note: "R" positions a meter relative to the "end" of the previous meter, and "r" positions a meter relative to the "beginning" of the previous meter. It can have a value before it, like X=10R or Y=20R to add spacing in addition to the relative position.

[twiglet015]

Amazing thanks a lot that worked a treat!

[MerlinTheRed]

The "r" and "R" settings don't seem to respect the StringAlign settings. If you align something to the right you can't easily put a meter left of it.

[Kaelri]

The "r" and "R" settings don't seem to respect the StringAlign settings. If you align something to the right you can't easily put a meter left of it.

The problem is that "r" means "relative to the origin," and "R" means "relative to the bottom-right corner." In the case of a right-aligned string meter, those coordinates are both the same (x-wise). And changing that behavior would break backwards compatibility, so it's a bit of a dilemma.