moving meter group?

[Alex Becherer]

a question:
is it possible to move all meters of a meter group meter group let's say 50 pixels to the right?
or will i have to move each meter?
or is this maybe a feature to come with the next betas?

[jsmorley]

a question:
is it possible to move all meters of a meter group meter group let's say 50 pixels to the right?
or will i have to move each meter?
or is this maybe a feature to come with the next betas?

No, !MoveMeter is not a "relative" command that would work with a group. It moves a meter to a specific X / Y position, so any group implementation would just put all meters in the same spot.

Currently there are not any plans to create some kind of new !MoveMeterRelative / !MoveMeterGroupRelative functionality, but you never know.

[Kaelri]

There are a number of alternative methods:

- Use a common variable in each meter's X option, e.g. X=(#Variable#+10). Then change that variable to move all the meters.

- Using Section Variables, choose one meter as a base, then have all other meters follow the first meter, e.g. X=([MainMeter:X]+10).

- Load a simple Lua script with the following:

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function MoveBy(MeterName, X)
   local Meter = SKIN:GetMeter('MeterName')
   local OldX = Meter:GetX()
   local NewX = OldX + X
   SKIN:Bang('!SetOption', MeterName, 'X', NewX)
end

Then you can use this bang to move each meter by a certain distance, while maintaining their positions relative to each other:

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!CommandMeasure MeasureName "MoveBy('MeterName', X)

[Alex Becherer]

it's a little more complicated. i am already using section variables, but as the position and the visibility of a group is dependent on more than one variable moving the group as a whole have been convenient.
i mean, i know how to get this skin working, but the code will probably make you want to puke if you would see it

thanks a lot for the help