Use of "r" and "R" with right justified, dynamic string

[davidross]

I'm trying to maintain a meter-image a couple of pixels to the left of a dynamic, right-justified (expands to the left) meter-string (weather description). I can't seem to accomplish that with the use of either "r" or "R" - neither keeps the image a fixed distance from the expanding left-edge of the text. Any advice?

[Arne Anka]

I'm trying to maintain a meter-image a couple of pixels to the left of a dynamic, right-justified (expands to the left) meter-string (weather description). I can't seem to accomplish that with the use of either "r" or "R" - neither keeps the image a fixed distance from the expanding left-edge of the text. Any advice?

Maybe X=-5r will work??

[davidross]

That was roughly the first thing I tried but it doesn't work. It seems that for both pos and neg values of r and R, the position is set with respect to the right edge of the string which doesn't change in this case. But thank you.

[smurfier]

r will always be the X/Y value of the meter directly above it in the code. When you right justify a string the X coordinate defines where the right side of the string will be. Unless you move your string meter, the coordinate provided by r will always be the right side of the string.

If the above information does not help you, posting your skin code for us to look at might.

[davidross]

Smurfier, based on what you wrote, r or R won't work in this case because I want the meter it's associated with to maintain a fixed distance from the left edge of the variable length, right-justified meter-string directly above it in the code. Can this be done some other way?

[KreAch3R]

You could use .lua and string.len to measure the length of the string and make it !bang the correct X value.
Something like this (part of my code for sth else):

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if string.len(tTitles[iCurrentItem]) < 60 then
	SKIN:Bang('!SetVariable "Height" "25r"')
end

Basically, you would have to insert the description measure inside .lua, use string.len to count the length, and then use a !bang with a length-relative X value.

I don't know if that's the easy or only way, though.

[r0k]

String.len will return the lenght in characters. As an I and a an M will have a different (pixel) size, that would only be a rough approximation unless the type used is monospace. Most of the time, they are not the best looking fonts.

Better than nothing i suppose.

[jsmorley]

There is no way to get the length in pixels of a "string" in Rainmeter, however you can get the "width" in pixels of the entire meter displaying a string. Don't know if this is of any help, I have not been following this thread closely, but perhaps using some of this functionality can get you closer to what you want.

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function Initialize()

	mtMeterOne = SKIN:GetMeter('MeterOne')
	mtMeterTwo = SKIN:GetMeter('MeterTwo')
	
end -->Initialize

function Update()

   local MeterOneW = mtMeterOne:GetW()
   local MeterOneX = mtMeterOne:GetX()
   
   mtMeterTwo:SetX(MeterOneX + MeterOneW)
   
   return "Done"
   
end -->Update

[davidross]

Thank you all for your help with this. I'll try a .lua script.