X-Git-Url: https://git.madduck.net/etc/awesome.git/blobdiff_plain/d614f25b59239cf3688d9d5ef02424a2e289971b..818546e18b162f8de6c788a665cd340ca36cce76:/Widgets.md diff --git a/Widgets.md b/Widgets.md index 8accde9..7130cc3 100644 --- a/Widgets.md +++ b/Widgets.md @@ -2,9 +2,28 @@ Every widget is output by a `function`. Unless otherwise expressly noted, `function` returns a `wibox.widget.textbox`. -We say this because, for some widget, `function` return a table to be used for notification and update purposes. +This is said because, for some widgets, `function` returns a table to be used for notification and update purposes. -Almost all widgets can be set by an input function called `settings`: you can markup textboxes and do whatever customization within it. +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 also 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) + end + }) + +--- - [alsa](https://github.com/copycat-killer/lain/wiki/alsa) - [alsabar](https://github.com/copycat-killer/lain/wiki/alsabar)