Month Progress Bar

[pclman]

I am trying to make a progress bar that will show the progression of time in a month; that is, it will show how far through the month we are. I have:

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[mMonth]
Measure=Time
Format=%#m
Substitute="1":"31","2":"28","3":"31","4":"30","5":"31","6":"30","7":"31","8":"31","9":"30","10":"31","11":"30","12":"31"


[MeterProgressBar]
Meter=BAR
MeasureName=mMonth
X=1
Y=R
H=30
BarImage=Bar.png
BarOrientation=Horizontal


[MeterBackground]
Meter=IMAGE
ImageName=BG1.png
x=0
y=r
AntiAlias=1

Unfortunately, it doesn't work. The bar is always full, even though it is not yet the end of the month. I believe I may be misunderstanding the progress bar syntax; I am quite new to this. If anyone knows how I would go about fixing it, I would be very grateful.

[Kaelri]

There are two small problems. The first is with your Substitute pattern. Each part of the Substitute is applied cumulatively, which means that the "output" of one part is used as the "input" for the next. So if the month is January (1), then it will do

1 --> "1":"31" --> 31

and then

31 --> "3":"31" --> 311

You can avoid this by including the leading zeroes:

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[mMonth]
Measure=Time
Format=%m
Substitute="01":"31","02":"28","03":"31","04":"30","05":"31","06":"30","07":"31","08":"31","09":"30","10":"31","11":"30","12":"31"

The second problem is that this measure now only provides the total number of days in the current month; your bar has no way of knowing what the current date is. You need to add a second measure that provides the day of the month, and uses the total number as the "max value." Rainmeter then uses both numbers to calculate the progress.

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[MeasureMonthTotal]
Measure=Time
Format=%m
Substitute="01":"31","02":"28","03":"31","04":"30","05":"31","06":"30","07":"31","08":"31","09":"30","10":"31","11":"30","12":"31"

[MeasureMonthCurrent]
Measure=Time
Format=%d
MaxValue=[MeasureMonthTotal]
DynamicVariables=1

[MeterProgressBar]
Meter=BAR
MeasureName=MeasureMonthCurrent
X=1
Y=R
H=30
BarImage=Bar.png
BarOrientation=Horizontal

[pclman]

Thank you so much!

[smurfier]

If you want to account for leap year...

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[MeasureLeap]
Measure=Time
Format=28 + (((((%Y %% 4) = 0) && ((%Y %% 100) <> 0)) || ((%Y %% 400) = 0)) )

[MeasureMonthTotal]
Measure=Time
Format=%m
Substitute="01":"31","03":"31","04":"30","05":"31","06":"30","07":"31","08":"31","09":"30","10":"31","11":"30","12":"31","02":"[MeasureLeap]"
DynamicVariables=1

[MeasureMonthCurrent]
Measure=Time
Format=%d
MaxValue=([MeasureMonthTotal])
DynamicVariables=1

[MeterProgressBar]
Meter=BAR
MeasureName=MeasureMonthCurrent
X=1
Y=R
H=30
W=100
BarImage=Bar.png
BarOrientation=Horizontal