You're welcome - glad you like it, hopefully you'll make good use of it.This is definitely a good one and I like it. Thank you very much. I'm glad the Rainmeter community is so responsive.
But I'm still a bit confused. Why some options can be accessed with regular [SectionName:OptionName] and others can't. Especially when you can create such a simple third-party implementation.
. Especially when you can create such a simple third-party implementation.
I don't have a definitive answer as to why only certain options are available as section variable parameters and others are not, that's something to ask the developers of Rainmeter over the years. I imagine that it's either because some options were considered more likely to be interrogated like that, or, depending on how Rainmeter evolved they were already implemented and available in Lua via the above methods (which, by the way, even though it's a separate programming language, it's not really 3rd party since it's integrated into Rainmeter specifically for that reason - to do things that are tricky or cumbersome to do when using the plain Rainmeter .ini syntax). A secondary reason might have been the intention to keep Rainmeter as lightweight as possible, both in terms of syntax and internally, so as to not negatively affect the expected user experience. Might also have been due to the potential volatility of certain options (e.g. how you'd return certain more complex Shape options and such). Just guessing here, of course, but I suspect these were some potential reasons for such features that might seem "incomplete" at times...
Statistics: Posted by Yincognito — Yesterday, 9:45 pm