Spacing of "Invisible" statistics in HUD Popup

[ChicagoAl]

I have a HUD Popup with the following settings: Type: Normal Separator: (Empty) Padding: 0

The statistics in this popup are in groups of 13, with each group separated by a "New Line"

Each of the 13 statistic on the line uses a format expression similar to the following: if(cnt_range_Raise_AA > 0, format('AA: {1} ', format_number(cnt_range_Raise_AA, 0, false, true)),''), which (as designed) puts up the value "AA: X " only if cnt_range_Raise_AA is >0, and leaves the spot blank if cnt_range_Raise_AA is <=0.

What I was hoping for was a neatly spaced, ordered list that looks something like this:
AKs: 1 AK: 1 A9: 1 A8s: 1 A8: 4 A4s: 1

Instead, it appears that the HUD is inserting spaces where the <=0 stats would go even though they should be blank and my padding is set to 0 - so I end up with something like this:
AKs: 1 AK: 1 A9: 1 A8s: 1 A8: 4 A4s: 1

So my question is this - Is there a way to eliminate the extra spaces to get the formatting I am looking for?

Thanks for your help!

[WhiteRider]

You'll still get a bit of space taken up by each stat, even if it is empty.

To get it really neat you could combine them all into one stat - it would make a pretty complicated (or long, at least) format expression.
You can use + to concatenate strings in a format expression, so you could append all of your existing expressions if you like.

[ChicagoAl]

Oooooooh that would be interesting! I'll start working on a prototype of that! Is there a limit to the length of a format expression? Also, I assume in this case the Value Expression becomes irrelevant?

[WhiteRider]

I wouldn't expect there to be a limit to the length of the format expression, but it's possible I guess. I haven't built anything quite that long myself. I'd add a few parts at a time and check it works. If you hit a limit it will probably still look better as 2 or 3 stats rather than 13.. :)

The Value Expression is used for things like sorting in reports, and colouring using HUD Properties, but it is effectively irrellevant here, yes.

[ChicagoAl]

WHITERIDER SAVES THE DAY!!!!!!

Not only did this work........and look much more elegant.........but it was also much easier and was accomplished with just a 13 custom stats rather than 169. Youdaman!

Now if you can figure out how I can have the text one color and the value(s) another inside a single result (my other post where u said i was basically hosed).......you will be even more da man!

[WhiteRider]

Excellent!

I wish that we could colour different sections of stats independently, but I'm pretty sure we can't at the moment. I will mention this to the development team and see if it is possible for a future version.