X-Git-Url: https://git.madduck.net/etc/awesome.git/blobdiff_plain/d29477dac35903da00e1fe6669a2a3e90b8f1096..089c10dff4317654c8436ddef408d993d617e202:/Widgets.md?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/Widgets.md b/Widgets.md index 7130cc3..8a8945b 100644 --- a/Widgets.md +++ b/Widgets.md @@ -1,8 +1,9 @@ -Every widget is output by a `function`. +General usage +------------- -Unless otherwise expressly noted, `function` returns a `wibox.widget.textbox`. +Every widget is output by a `function`. -This is said because, for some widgets, `function` returns a table to be used for notification and update purposes. +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. @@ -12,18 +13,21 @@ 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`. +`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 " .. usage) + 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) @@ -39,4 +43,10 @@ Here follows an example: - [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) \ No newline at end of file