X-Git-Url: https://git.madduck.net/etc/awesome.git/blobdiff_plain/2cc273cb7178340c257f237245c4c5bc2f5a72de..0d696b5f0634eb30d77eea8f08633e7a3390e210:/Widgets.md?ds=inline diff --git a/Widgets.md b/Widgets.md index cbf3fb9..981e4e1 100644 --- a/Widgets.md +++ b/Widgets.md @@ -1,9 +1,42 @@ -### Foreword - Every widget is output by a `function`. -Unless otherwise expressly noted, `function` returns a `wibox.widget.textbox`. +For some widgets, `function` returns a `wibox.widget.textbox`, for others a table to be used for notification and update purposes. + +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, in order to make your customizations. + +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 threat it like any other `wibox.widget.textbox`. + +Here follows an example: + + mycpu = lain.widgets.cpu({ + timeout = 4, + settings = function() + widget:set_markup("Cpu " .. cpu_now.usage) + end + }) + +If you want to see more complex applications, check [awesome-copycats](https://github.com/copycat-killer/awesome-copycats). -We say this because, for some widget, `function` return a table to be used for notification and update purposes. +--- -### Index \ No newline at end of file +- [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) +- [borderbox](https://github.com/copycat-killer/lain/wiki/borderbox) +- [calendar](https://github.com/copycat-killer/lain/wiki/calendar) +- [cpu](https://github.com/copycat-killer/lain/wiki/cpu) +- [fs](https://github.com/copycat-killer/lain/wiki/fs) +- [imap](https://github.com/copycat-killer/lain/wiki/imap) +- [maildir](https://github.com/copycat-killer/lain/wiki/maildir) +- [mem](https://github.com/copycat-killer/lain/wiki/mem) +- [mpd](https://github.com/copycat-killer/lain/wiki/mpd) +- [net](https://github.com/copycat-killer/lain/wiki/net) +- [sysload](https://github.com/copycat-killer/lain/wiki/sysload) +- [temp](https://github.com/copycat-killer/lain/wiki/temp) +- [yawn](https://github.com/copycat-killer/lain/wiki/yawn) \ No newline at end of file