[Feature] New STRING Attributes

[dragonmage]

ShadowOffset=
MouseOverColor=
MouseDownColor=

This would save us from creating multiple meters to get mouseover effects on STRING meters. The ShadowOffset would allow us to create more "raised" appearance.

[BrianHeston]

I would very much support these attributes as well. Great idea!

Perhaps rather than ShadowOffset we use a ShadowX/ShadowY which are always relative to the string itself?

[Alex2539]

ShadowX and ShadowY would be a little more useful. That way you could somewhat determine where he "light source" is. I'm not sure about the MouseOverColor and MouseDownColor though as such effects are easily achieved via !Bangs.

On a similar note, BorderWidth might be nice. The 1px border is good for certain cases, but sometimes you just need a little more.

[dragonmage]

How do you easily achieve color changes with bangs?

[Varelse]

I use MouseOverAction=!RainmeterSetVariable MouseOverColor X,Y,Z,A. Same thing for MouseLeaveAction and so forth.

The only problem is that you have to use a different variable for each meter that you want to mouse over.

[dragonmage]

Yeah, that's what I thought. Having them set as a meter attribute though would eliminate the extra variables and in fact could be added to a MeterStyle.

[MattKing]

The offset is easy, the hovering color is more difficult, it has the same issue as buttons do in that it won't turn on and off as soon as you mouse over it.

[jsmorley]

The offset is easy, the hovering color is more difficult, it has the same issue as buttons do in that it won't turn on and off as soon as you mouse over it.

In my experience, buttons work really well. It's MouseOverAction and MouseLeaveAction that has issues with keeping track of the current state. Might be worth exploring why that is before we add another feature that is unreliable.