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4 Licensed under GNU General Public License v2
5 * (c) 2013, Luke Bonham
9 local debug = require("debug")
11 local capi = { timer = timer }
12 local io = { open = io.open,
16 -- Lain helper functions for internal use
20 helpers.lain_dir = debug.getinfo(1, 'S').source:match[[^@(.*/).*$]]
21 helpers.icons_dir = helpers.lain_dir .. 'icons/'
22 helpers.scripts_dir = helpers.lain_dir .. 'scripts/'
26 function helpers.wrequire(table, key)
27 local module = rawget(table, key)
28 return module or require(table._NAME .. '.' .. key)
33 -- {{{ File operations
35 -- see if the file exists and is readable
36 function helpers.file_exists(file)
37 local f = io.open(file)
46 -- get all lines from a file, returns an empty
47 -- list/table if the file does not exist
48 function helpers.lines_from(file)
49 if not helpers.file_exists(file) then return {} end
51 for line in io.lines(file) do
52 lines[#lines + 1] = line
57 -- get first line of a file, return nil if
58 -- the file does not exist
59 function helpers.first_line(file)
60 return helpers.lines_from(file)[1]
63 -- get first non empty line from a file,
64 -- returns nil otherwise
65 function helpers.first_nonempty_line(file)
66 for k,v in pairs(helpers.lines_from(file)) do
67 if #v then return v end
76 helpers.timer_table = {}
78 function helpers.newtimer(name, timeout, fun, nostart)
79 helpers.timer_table[name] = capi.timer({ timeout = timeout })
80 helpers.timer_table[name]:connect_signal("timeout", fun)
81 helpers.timer_table[name]:start()
83 helpers.timer_table[name]:emit_signal("timeout")
91 helpers.map_table = {}
93 function helpers.set_map(element, value)
94 helpers.map_table[element] = value
97 function helpers.get_map(element)
98 return helpers.map_table[element]