[Solved] Update Plugin Measure from LUA

[prince1142003]

I'm a long time user of Rainmeter and really love the program. I've recently been developing my own skins and ran into a little issue.

I can't get the UpdateMeasure bang to work on a Webparser measure from within LUA. I've attached a test skin along with the LUA I'm using.

Any help is appreciated!

[jsmorley]

The problem is that the WebParser measure has an UpdateDivider of -1, which is all well and good. (I understand that you want to control its update with the script and not on each update of the skin in any way) However, since you don't have any UpdateRate on the WebParser measure, it will only "go out to the internet" and thus only run "FinishAction" every 10 minutes, which is the default for UpdateRate.

I made it:

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[MeasureWebParser]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser
UpdateDivider=-1
UpdateRate=1
Url=http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf
Download=1
ForceReload=1
FinishAction=!CommandMeasure "MeasureScript" "Two()"

Which if I am not mistaken, will still only update the measure in general by the !UpdateMeasure in the script, but when the measure IS updated, it will actually go out and get another copy of the .rdf and run the FinishAction.

You might want to play around and ensure that it is doing exactly what you want, but I think that is the key.

[Brian]

I think the problem might be that you have no UpdateRate. If UpdateRate is not defined, it defaults to 600 or 10 minutes. So even though you update the measure, it really wont download the page for 10 minutes.

You might want to use EnableMeasure/DisableMeasure instead of UpdateMeasure.

Your .ini file:

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[MeasureWebParser]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser
Url=http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf
Download=1
ForceReload=1
FinishAction=!Execute [!CommandMeasure "MeasureScript" "Two()"][!DisableMeasure MeasureWebParser]
Disabled=1

Then your .lua file:

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function Update()
	local t = os.time()
	local freq = 30
	if t >= tonumber(SKIN:GetVariable('One')) then
		print(tonumber(SKIN:GetVariable('One')))
		SKIN:Bang('!Execute [!EnableMeasure "MeasureWebParser"][!Redraw]')
		SKIN:Bang('!SetVariable "One" "'..round(t+freq-(t%freq)+1)..'"')
	end
end

This should work, but haven't tested it yet.....(not at my computer)

-Brian

[smurfier]

I think the problem might be that you have no UpdateRate. If UpdateRate is not defined, it defaults to 600 or 10 minutes. So even though you update the measure, it really wont download the page for 10 minutes.

You might want to use EnableMeasure/DisableMeasure instead of UpdateMeasure.

Your .ini file:

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[MeasureWebParser]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser
Url=http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf
Download=1
ForceReload=1
FinishAction=!Execute [!CommandMeasure "MeasureScript" "Two()"][!DisableMeasure MeasureWebParser]
Disabled=1

Then your .lua file:

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function Update()
	local t = os.time()
	local freq = 30
	if t >= tonumber(SKIN:GetVariable('One')) then
		print(tonumber(SKIN:GetVariable('One')))
		SKIN:Bang('!Execute [!EnableMeasure "MeasureWebParser"][!Redraw]')
		SKIN:Bang('!SetVariable "One" "'..round(t+freq-(t%freq)+1)..'"')
	end
end

This should work, but haven't tested it yet.....(not at my computer)

-Brian

Unless you set UpdateRate=1 in MeasureWebParser, it would not pull the website until 600 updates later.

[prince1142003]

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[MeasureWebParser]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser
UpdateDivider=-1
UpdateRate=1
Url=http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf
Download=1
ForceReload=1
FinishAction=!CommandMeasure "MeasureScript" "Two()"

That did the trick. Thanks!

[Brian]

Unless you set UpdateRate=1 in MeasureWebParser, it would not pull the website until 600 updates later.

I knew I forgot something.

That did the trick. Thanks!

Glad to see you got it working.

-Brian