Hide meter if there is no text value?

[Bambouca]

Hi,

I made a webparser skin for acquiring MAC addresses of associated clients with my wireless router. It substitutes MAC address for real names of devices and shows it when the device is connected to my home wireless network.

So I have six meter groups for every device like this:

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[MeterClient1]
Meter=String
MeterStyle=Style
Text=Active Client 1:
Group=Client1

[MeterClient1Name]
MeasureName=MeasureActiveClient1
Meter=String
MeterStyle=StyleName
Text=%1
Group=Client1

But, when the device is not connected to the network, it just shows the text: "Active Client 1:". So if the MeterClientName meter is empty, I just want to hide that group. I tried with IfEqualValue, but it seems it works just with number values. I think there has to be simple solution for this problem, but I still cant find it.

Thanks

[jsmorley]

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[MACMeasure]
Measure=SomeMeasureType
Blah
RegExpSubstitute=1
Substitute=".*Active Client.*":"-1"

[MeasureTest]
Measure=Calc
Formula=[MeasureMAC]
IfBelowValue=0
IfBelowAction=[!HideMeter MeterOne][!UpdateMeter *][!Redraw]
IfEqualValue=0
IfEqualAction=[!ShowMeter MeterOne][!UpdateMeter *][!Redraw]
DynamicVariables=1

Any string returned from the measure that does NOT contain "Active Client" will be evaluated as "0" by the calc measure. Any string that does will be evaluated as "-1".

http://docs.rainmeter.net/manual-beta/measures/general-options/substitute
http://docs.rainmeter.net/manual-beta/measures/general-options/ifactions

[Bambouca]

Thank you, that's what I was searching for

[jsmorley]

Glad to help.