Besides what jsmorley and RicardoTM mentioned, just make sure you understand that the Lua generating tutorial is just a workaround that doesn't change the fact that you'll need the desired meters to be physically written into the skin file(s) and have the skin refreshed to reflect that. Now, for your case, since the number of cores on a machine doesn't change, you get away easily with what should be a single write to the file. However, if you wanted to, say, display as many bars as the seconds in the current minute, and do that every second, you can imagine how overkill would be to write to file(s) every second, and refresh the skin immediately while losing the values of whatever variables that were not written to file in a similar fashion. In such a latter case, it would be much easier to just copy paste 60 meters under different names and avoid that file write + skin refresh cycle.
Statistics: Posted by Yincognito — Yesterday, 10:55 pm