this is kind of embaressing but..how would I have an IF THEN execute a !bang command? ive got:
would I just add another line saying "!execute [!bangcommandgoeshere]"?

You need some kind of event to fire a !bang command, or script it.

If you have opacity set to 1 in a themevars, like

opacity 1

and have

IF opacity = 1
xPopupAlphaTransparency 255
ENDIF

in with your popup definitions, then it will be set to 255 when you start LS or recycle. No need for a !bang in that situation.

You could also do

IF opacity = 1
xPopupAlphaTransparency 255
ELSEIF opacity = 2
xPopupAlphaTransparency othernumber
ENDIF

and so on.

i know the popup doesnt need a !bang, but ive made a bang with mzscript to set the opacity of labels, so i need the bang to execute at the same time.

uhmmm...IF's are covered in the docs. You can either read the mzscript or LS docs. Don't be so damn lazy!

mzscript uses its own set of bangs to use if's, and im looking at lsdocs.shellfront.org right now, and i dont see anything about how to execute a bang command inside of an IF...

That's because you can't, other than something like:

IF whatever = #
LabelOnLeftClick !thisbang
ELSE
LabelOnLeftClick !thatbang
ENDIF

Even then, that's only read on a !recycle (or a !reload).

Bangs need an event to fire (or some scripting setup).

The easiest way to do what you want is to have some var in a themevars, representing the amount of opacity, and having the label use the var for recycles.

Like in a themevar.rc:

trans 255

Label Definition:

LabelAlphaTransparency $trans$

A popup bang example:

*Popup "Set to 150" !execute [!xTextReplace @the file@ @trans *@ @trans 150@][!LabelSetAlpha thelabel 150]

If you want to see some live examples, using a slider, check out my RGB theme, and scroll down to the "Transparency" section of the script.rc.

(Btw, I think the new test builds are changing this to work the way you want.)

Stalefist :: LINK

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If you're using 0.24.7 read the release_notes.txt Usage/Help section for correct syntax. Although very similiar to 0.24.6 syntax, there are some differences.

dev, i already looked at that, theres nothing there that says how to execute a bang command within an IF, it only shows examples using popup and wallpapers. im trying to do

IF var = 1 THEN
!bang
ENDIF

xcal- i used your idea and now instead of defined numbers for the opacity im using a var, but the only problem is that when i add a *script start !opacitybang line and recycle, i think its running the bang before it actually creates the labels, so it isnt effecting the labels on a recycle. i know the bangs work however because when executed from the popup menu, they do what i want them to do.
anyways, thanks for the help and farewell (i get the feeling im getting on the bad side of dev)

If a module B depends on a module A, load A before B.

i should get shunned from the forums for this (more so than i already am) i was loading mzscript before label. all i had to do was flop them around.

Stalefist :: Your IF example is only parsed on startup so defining it for a !Bang would be silly. You are better off using the !ifeval stuff from mzscript if you are looking at working on a toggle bang.