From: Luke Bonham Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 19:56:10 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Updated Widgets (markdown) X-Git-Url: https://git.madduck.net/etc/awesome.git/commitdiff_plain/aba6c37b9c0517f6f39d4db4a54862b800cc70a8?ds=inline Updated Widgets (markdown) --- diff --git a/Widgets.md b/Widgets.md index 0772360..2138b27 100644 --- a/Widgets.md +++ b/Widgets.md @@ -2,9 +2,22 @@ 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` returns 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: with this you can markup textboxes using predefined variables and do whatever customization you want. + +I'll give an example: + + mycpu = lain.widgets.cpu({ + timeout = 4, + settings = function() + widgets:set_markup("Cpu " .. usage) + end + }) + +check the sections for all the details. - [alsa](https://github.com/copycat-killer/lain/wiki/alsa) - [alsabar](https://github.com/copycat-killer/lain/wiki/alsabar)