Pause update of all meters

So, I have a weather forecast skin.

When it loads, all meters immediately retreive the values from their respective measures, be it through MeasureName, or a direct reference ([MeasureSection]) to the measure. The issue with this is, the measures dont have the values for some of these meters to work. For example, an Image meter is using the value of a child of my main WebParser for the forecast in its own ImageName option. When the skin loads, the image meter is immediately update and since the value it needs to properly retreive its image, it errors out. Same goes for all other skins. Even ones that use inline Lua functions. As long as they rely on the measures that do not yet have the values they need to function, I get errors and I get a lot of them.

Now, the skin works. It works completely fine. I immediately hide the skin on load. Then using a finish action on the WebParse measure, i update and redraw everything, finally showing the skin again. But just hiding the skin isnt going to stop that initial update of all the meters.

So, what im askin is if there's a way I can "Pause" the update of all meters on load. If not, maybe there's another way.

Statistics: Posted by Hazrd — Today, 9:55 am — Replies 12 — Views 137

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