Working with Angle on a String Meter (redux)

[balala]

ImageMagick / MagickMeter can though, as you probably know.

Yep, I know, even if didn't use it too much.

[Yincognito]

since the meter area doesn't follow the text in the Angle option anyway

Just realized that a quick way to overcome the fact that one can't easily use the Angle rotated meter coordinates for relative positioning other meters after it would be to use the coordinates of the - not rotated - reference meter instead ([MeterOne] in my earlier sample), which can easily be made fully transparent so it doesn't affect the visuals.

Another alternative that would also allow the mouse actions to react to the actual rotated coordinates in case one prefers that, would be to use a rectangular Shape meter replicating the original, not rotated, coordinates of the String meter where the Angle option is applied, and easily rotate that shape in the same direction and with the same speed as the Angle-d text:
https://docs.rainmeter.net/manual/meters/shape/#TransformModifiers
Unlike the String meter duplicate from the 1st paragraph, the Rectangle in this Shape meter would need to be filled with an "almost" transparent color - e.g. 0,0,0,1 - so that the mouse properly reacts to the shape's pixels, see:
https://docs.rainmeter.net/manual/meters/shape/#MouseDetection
Obviously, if the not rotated area is still desired for some particular reason, just skip any rotation on the shape, or rotate it at a 0 angle.

In short, to solve the meter area / mouse detection being offset from the text in a String meter where the Angle option is applied, a duplicate meter (String or Shape, as described above) would have to be used (this might have been mentioned in the thread already; EDIT: yes, it was, jsmorley recommended an Image meter based on roughly the same principles).