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After a while ive decided to get back into theme creation again. I want to put more effort than I put into my last themes for my upcoming theme. Now, about positioning. I am going to have winamp controls in the lower left corner. Lets just say they are 100pixels in width (height has nothing to do with my problem.)How would I have an LSXcommand bar that goes from the 101th pixel until 50 pixels to the end of the screen? I think I have to use $resolutionX$ and some other things along with it...

actually, to clear things up:
1.I need it to start on the 101th pixel, would i do commandX 101?

2.For the Length of the bar, I need it to go for a certain length and stop 50 pixels from the edge ( its going to have to work for all resolutions)

1. yes
2. "commandwidth $resolutionx-150$" since there's 100 before, and 50 after, that should do it.

"CommandWidth -150" should also work.

how would -150 with commandwidth? I understand if it was a positional command, but this for width. wouldn't that make it a negative width??

whew, that's a wide command box.

How does a negative width ever make sense? And why would it be different from a negative position, considering that negative positions actually do exist?

Specifically, it will work because the setting is read with:

GetRCCoordinate(RCSETTING("Width"), 160, screen.right-screen.left);

interesting - does this apply to any module?

that is interesting. I didn't think that would work at all. like muhKuh said, does it apply to all modules, or is it specific to lsxcommand?

isnt it just treating resolution as a numeric variable and subtracting 150?

It works because the module "incorrectly" uses GetRCCoordinate for a non cordinate value. So, no it will not work with any module; Only modules that use GetRCCoordinate to read their width value.