Nesting square brackets in actions

[jsmorley]

jsmorley miswrote the section name in the !WriteKeyValue bang. That bang correctly is [!WriteKeyValue Variable[color=#FF0000]s[/color] RCI "[LNK1]"], as the appropriate section name is [Variables], not [Variable].
This happens sometimes to all of us, I think. Otherwise what he said, is all right.

Yes, I just copy / pasted what he had, and didn't catch that until a post later...

[Honimoura]

I do not understand why it does not work ....
I tried it:

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
AccurateText = 1

[Variables]



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[MeasureFolderLNK]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=FileView1
Path="C:\Users\Honimoura\Documents\Raccourcis\Games"
ShowDotDot=0
ShowFolder=0
Count=14
HideExtensions=1

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[LNK1]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=FileView1
Path=[MeasureFolderLNK]
Type=FileName
Index=1
OnUpdateAction=[!SetVariable RCI "[LNK1]"]

Dont work.

I thought the problem may be that [LNK1] does not return a result. So I did:

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
AccurateText = 1

[Variables]



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[MeasureFolderLNK]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=FileView1
Path="C:\Users\Honimoura\Documents\Raccourcis\Games"
ShowDotDot=0
ShowFolder=0
Count=14
HideExtensions=1

------------------------------------

[LNK1]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=FileView1
Path=[MeasureFolderLNK]
Type=FileName
Index=1
OnUpdateAction=[!SetVariable RCI "blabla"]

But dont work too

[Variales] stay empty, sorry

[jsmorley]

No, it doesn't...

The problem you are having is the difference between "setting" a variable in memory, !SetVariable, and "writing" a variable physically to the skin .ini file, !WriteKeyValue.

Trust me, the variable is being created and can be used in your skin while it is running. It just won't be "saved" if you refresh or unload the skin, but you don't need that, it's created every time anyway.

You can see the variable when it is just created in memory by looking at About / Skins.

[Honimoura]

wait ... RCI Variable is created but not in this file ...

[jsmorley]

wait ... RCI Variable is created but not in this file ...

You don't need it to be physically written to the file.

[Honimoura]

This file.ini is @include in another, and !writekey have create the RCI Variable in another ...

[balala]

wait ... RCI Variable is created but not in this file ...

But where? Because as jsmorley said, the !SetVariable bang doesn't write the variable nowhere, just sets it dynamically.

[Honimoura]

with [!WriteKeyValue] i think, before.
But if it's doesn't write the variable ... how do i know if it works?
I cant have :

[Variables]
RCI=Blabla

Like that in another .ini i can do

Text=#RCI#

[Honimoura]

Infect what I'm trying to do is in:

ScanLNK.ini

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
AccurateText = 1

[Variables]
RCI=blabla


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[MeasureFolderLNK]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=FileView1
Path="C:\Users\Honimoura\Documents\Raccourcis\Games"
ShowDotDot=0
ShowFolder=0
Count=14
HideExtensions=1

------------------------------------

[LNK1]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=FileView1
Path=[MeasureFolderLNK]
Type=FileName
Index=1
OnUpdateAction=[!SetVariable RCI "blabla" ]

Menu.ini

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
AccurateText = 1

[Variables]
@include=Calcule.ini
@include2=ScanIMG.ini
@include3=ScanLNK.ini

Dossier="C:\Users\Honimoura\Documents\Raccourcis\Games\"
LNK=.lnk

[MeterTest]
Meter=String
FontSize=11
FontWeight=400
FontColor=255,255,255,255
SolidColor=47,47,47,255
Padding=5,5,5,5
AntiAlias=1
Text=[#Dossier][#RCI][#LNK]

As ScanLNK.ini does the scan and save the result (s) in variables.
Then Menu.ini retrieves these results in the variables to display the result
(I'm really trying to use these variables to find out how it works)

[Honimoura]

And if I use anyway! Writekeyvalue but giving him at the end the famous # currentpath # (if it's good to tell him to write in this file) it's good or ?