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Would it be possible to add support for nesting MeterStyles? Here's an example of why I would like this:

I recently discovered the #CURRENTSECTION# variable, and I am working on standardizing all meters that have button hover effects (changing the text/image to a light red color) to use this single MeterStyle so the effects can be changed in bulk if I decide to in the future. However, it is still a pain to add this new MeterStyle to every meter that has a hover effect.

There are hundreds of meters in my suite that all use the same MeterStyle (e.g. toggle buttons in my settings skins). If I want to add hover effects to the toggle buttons, I either have to copy the text hover effect MeterStyle into the toggle button MeterStyle (which goes against the point of making that MeterStyle in the first place), or I have to go add it to each button's MeterStyle option individually (completely possible, but extremely tedious).

It would be great if I could "nest" meterstyles so I could add the hover effect style to the toggle button style and have done with it.

Something like this:

This is not so much "nesting" as it is "cascading", and that is really insanely complicated to do in the context of how MeterStyle is designed. I would not hold out much hope for this.

Ah, I understand. Thanks anyway.

You could use
You can also cascade more styles Take note of that for example Style3 will overwrite Style1 and Style2 if they have same parameters

oZone wrote:You could use

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[StyleStringButtonHover]
MouseOverAction=[!SetOption #CURRENTSECTION# FontColor "#colorButtonPress#"][!UpdateMeter #CURRENTSECTION#][!Redraw]
MouseLeaveAction=[!SetOption #CURRENTSECTION# FontColor ""][!UpdateMeter #CURRENTSECTION#][!Redraw]

[StyleToggleButton]
FontFace=ElegantIcons
FontColor=#colorAccent#
FontSize=12
X=#contentMargin#
Y=5R

[ToggleButton]
Meter=String
MeterStyle=StyleToggleButton | StyleStringButtonHover

You can also cascade more styles

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MeterStyle=Style1 | Style2 | Style3 | Style4 | Style5 | ... | StyleN

Take note of that for example Style3 will overwrite Style1 and Style2 if they have same parameters

I know about that. I was wondering about nesting meterstyles because I would otherwise have to add the extra style to over 100 meters by hand, which is tedious.

Than you can add that style using regular expressions
if you don't know how to use it you can always use this
1)get notepad++ or similar text editor
2)select line or end part of it that you want to change (e.g. MeterStyle=sBase | sStyle1)
3)press ctrl+f
4)get to replace tab
5)copy line to "Replace with" box, and add "| sNextStyle" (e.g. MeterStyle=sBase | sStyle1 | sNextStyle)
6)if that line is same everywhere you can press replace all, if not or you want to decide where to add it press replace