Get Position of Config A when Opening Config B

[Mordasius]

What is the easiest way of getting the X and Y coordinates of Config A when Config B is loaded? What I'd like is to have is a Measure that moves Config B to the X position of Config A + 10 and the Y position of Config A + 10 when it is loaded.

I know this can be done by having Config A use WriteKeyValue to tell Config B where it is but is this really the most effiecient way of doing it if Config A is not going to be moving that often?

[KreAch3R]

Brainstorm: Read Config A's X and Y value from Rainmeter.ini, through lua in config B?

(didn't try anything)

[Kaelri]

I would recommend the !WriteKeyValue approach. I know it's not perfect, but it's probably the easiest way that doesn't involve using an add-on. You can use a script to send the !WKV only when the location changes:

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Save = { X = false, Y = false }
function Update()
    for XorY, Last in pairs(Save) do
        local Current = tonumber(SKIN:GetVariable('CURRENTCONFIG'..XorY))
        if Current ~= Last then
            SKIN:Bang('!WriteKeyValue', 'Variables', 'ConfigA'..XorY, Current, '[PathToConfigB]')
            Save[XorY] = Current
        end
    end
end

Then ConfigB can move itself to those coordinates on startup.

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OnRefreshAction=!Move #ConfigAX# #ConfigAY#

Brainstorm: Read Config A's X and Y value from Rainmeter.ini, through lua in config B?

(didn't try anything)

I would not use this approach in a publicly-distributed skin, because on some systems, Rainmeter.ini may use a character encoding that Lua can't read, such as UTF-16. But for personal use, it should be fine.

[Mordasius]

Thanks KreAch3R and Kaelri.

I think I'll go with the script as ConfigA is just a single image which serves as a background for a number of other Configs so it can write its new position and move the others as the need arises.