How to make text stay put!

[Watermelons]

Howdy,

Basically I have the first part of my line 1 showing CPU usage (%)which means that any text to the RIGHT of it keeps moving about (e.g. when CPU goes from 2% upto 60%, it all gets shifted one character to the right. This is very annoying, but I can't find a plugin that fixes this...(i need something like hold'n'scroll).


Thanks in advance...

[rfryar]

Look into the $Fill command. This will force the character after the fill command to be at location XX

So I use $perf then a $Fill(12)%
This will keep the % sign in one place two characters from the moving percentage.

Rick

[mattcro]

I use the $Right() command. This give the rightmost N characters of the input string.

For the CPU usage, I have:

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CPU: $Right($CPUUsage%,$3%)%

This gives you a 3-digit space with the CPU usage, followed by the percent symbol. It looks better since the number will be right-justified, like so:


I've used the same technique for the memory and page file percentages on line 2.

[Watermelons]

Thanks guys...working like a dream now!