Show tooltip only if text clipped?

[lysy1993lbn]

Is it possible to enable tooltip only if some string is clipped by "Clipstring=1" setting?
Otherwise (if text fits in area) disable them?

[KreAch3R]

You could emulate Clipstring through .lua (not perfectly), and then have the .lua script toggle the visibility of two meters, one with the Tooltip and one without, depending on string length.

[jsmorley]

Is it possible to enable tooltip only if some string is clipped by "Clipstring=1" setting?
Otherwise (if text fits in area) disable them?

Although in reality the answer is pretty much no. There is no way in Rainmeter itself to know the "length" of a string, and although in Lua you certainly could know the length of the string in characters, there is no reliable way to know based on that when Rainmeter is going to truncate the string due to ClipString=1. It is wildly variable depending on the font, the font size and the settings of the W= and H= options on the meter(s).

The only thing that would work reasonably well is to have Lua completely control the output. By that I mean don't put ClipString=1 on the meter at all, but rather just have the Lua get the value that is going to be used as the output of the meter by reading the value of the measure driving it. Then decide on a number of characters you want on the meter, (you will need to figure this out based on the font and size and width you are using in the skin) get the length in characters of the string from the measure, then create a new string in Lua that is the first xx chars of the original string -3 and concatenated with "...". Then use !SetOption to set the Text option of the meter with the new string, and !SetOption to set the ToolTipText value of the meter either with the full original string or "" to disable it.

[jsmorley]

P.S. That is more or less exactly what KreAch3R was getting at...

[KreAch3R]

Exactly. That's how I 've done it in my latest RSS reader. Given the difficulty, though, and the imperfect results, that's why I said "could".

[~Faradey~]

i think i know how to do it
i need to do some testings...just wait

[lysy1993lbn]

I wanted to do this in my RSS reader too, but I'll give up on this..
I'm really dumb at lua scripts, and want keep my skins simple as possible anyway so..

Thanks for trying help anyway.. I appreciate it

[lysy1993lbn]

MAybe is at least possible to delay tooltip showing?

Becouse now.. easiest way is thow on video: http://youtu.be/pSWOOJ4WaHM

[~Faradey~]

Here, try this example, is that what you need?
i think you will be able to fit it into your code
(just change String variable and refresh the skin to see)

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
DynamicWindowSize=1

[Variables]
String="Hello i am a very very very long string"

[CHCD]
Measure=Script
ScriptFile="#CURRENTPATH#ch_mcd.lua"
UpdateDivider=1
Meter1=MeterToGetStringWidth
Meter2=TestMeter

[TestMeasure]
Measure=TIME
Format=#String#

[TestMeter]
Meter=String
MeasureName=TestMeasure
X=0
Y=0
W=100
H=14
ToolTipText="#String#"
ToolTipHidden=1
FontColor=255,255,255
SolidColor=0,0,0,1
Hidden=0
;Text="#String#"
ClipString=1

[MeterToGetStringWidth]
Meter=String
MeasureName=TestMeasure
X=-3000
Y=-1000
Hidden=0
;Text="#String#"

Lua Script. Save it with name ch mcd.lua (or pick another but don't forget to edit it in skin file) and place it in skin's directory.

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PROPERTIES =
{

}

function Initialize()
 
end -->Initialize

function Update()
sMeterSetting1,sMeterSetting2 = SELF:GetOption('Meter1'),SELF:GetOption('Meter2')
sMeter1,sMeter2 = SKIN:GetMeter(sMeterSetting1),SKIN:GetMeter(sMeterSetting2)
Val1,Val2,Val2_1 = sMeter1:GetW(),sMeter2:GetOption('Text'),tonumber(sMeter2:GetW())
if Val1 >= Val2_1 then 
	SKIN:Bang("!SetOption TestMeter ToolTipHidden 0")
	SKIN:Bang("!UpdateMeter TestMeter")
	SKIN:Bang("!Redraw")
else 
	SKIN:Bang("!SetOption TestMeter ToolTipHidden 1")
	SKIN:Bang("!UpdateMeter TestMeter")
	SKIN:Bang("!Redraw")
end	
end -->Update

Notice! This example works if you don't use Text="%1" in your meters!...otherwise it will not work and will need to be rewritten

[lysy1993lbn]

Notice! This example works if you don't use Text="%1" in your meters!...otherwise it will not work and will need to be rewritten

Unfortunetly Text=%1 is exacly what I use