X-Git-Url: https://git.madduck.net/etc/awesome.git/blobdiff_plain/25c6bd19e3742e78df8585004d8dd71f59d168ee..ad2bd8dffb902b905b11e2cd6a29ddd152ff69b5:/Widgets.md diff --git a/Widgets.md b/Widgets.md index 42021bd..7130cc3 100644 --- a/Widgets.md +++ b/Widgets.md @@ -6,17 +6,25 @@ This is said because, for some widgets, `function` returns a table to be used fo Every widget may take either a table or a list of variables as argument. -If it takes a table, you have to define a function variable called `settings` in it: with this you can markup textboxes using predefined variables and do whatever customization you want. +If it takes a table, you have to define a function variable called `settings` in it, in order to make your customizations. -I'll give an example just to take a grasp, see the sections for all the details: +To markup the textbox, call `widget:set_markup(...)` within `settings`. + +You can feed `set_markup` with predefined arguments, see the sections for all the details. + +`widget` is a textbox, so you can also threat it like any other `wibox.widget.textbox`. + +Here follows an example: mycpu = lain.widgets.cpu({ timeout = 4, settings = function() - widgets:set_markup("Cpu " .. usage) + widget:set_markup("Cpu " .. usage) end }) +--- + - [alsa](https://github.com/copycat-killer/lain/wiki/alsa) - [alsabar](https://github.com/copycat-killer/lain/wiki/alsabar) - [bat](https://github.com/copycat-killer/lain/wiki/bat)