X-Git-Url: https://git.madduck.net/etc/awesome.git/blobdiff_plain/4ec5d224ab2c2f4e019c9bc832d090ef22729872..e379b9649b88e4e88a95731565e65d92c86b2824:/Widgets.md diff --git a/Widgets.md b/Widgets.md index 0772360..5917aac 100644 --- a/Widgets.md +++ b/Widgets.md @@ -1,10 +1,33 @@ +General usage +------------- + 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. -We say this because, for some widget, `function` returns a table to be used for notification and update purposes. +`widget` is a textbox, so you can threat it like any other `wibox.widget.textbox`. -Almost all widgets can be set by an input function called `settings`: you can markup textboxes and do whatever customization within it. +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). + +Index +----- - [alsa](https://github.com/copycat-killer/lain/wiki/alsa) - [alsabar](https://github.com/copycat-killer/lain/wiki/alsabar) @@ -20,4 +43,11 @@ Almost all widgets can be set by an input function called `settings`: you can ma - [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 +- [yawn](https://github.com/copycat-killer/lain/wiki/yawn) + +Users contributed +---------------- + +- [task](https://github.com/copycat-killer/lain/wiki/task) +- [tpbat](https://github.com/copycat-killer/lain/wiki/tpbat) +- [brightness](https://github.com/copycat-killer/lain/wiki/brightness) \ No newline at end of file