awesome/lib/gears/surface.lua.in

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---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- @author Uli Schlachter
-- @copyright 2012 Uli Schlachter
-- @release @AWESOME_VERSION@
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
local setmetatable = setmetatable
local type = type
local capi = { awesome = awesome }
local cairo = require("lgi").cairo
-- This checks for '<= 0.5' because there are git versions after 0.6 which still
-- identify themselves as 0.6 but already have the needed cairo support
local ver_major,ver_minor = string.match(require('lgi.version'),'(%d)%.(%d)')
if ( (tonumber(ver_major)<=0) and (tonumber(ver_minor)<=5) ) then
error("lgi too old, need at least version 0.6.1")
end
-- gears.surface
local surface = { mt = {} }
--- Try to convert the argument into an lgi cairo surface.
-- This is usually needed for loading images by file name.
function surface.load(_surface)
-- Nil is not changed
if not _surface then
return nil
end
-- lgi cairo surfaces don't get changed either
if cairo.Surface:is_type_of(_surface) then
return _surface
end
-- Strings are assumed to be file names and get loaded
if type(_surface) == "string" then
_surface = capi.awesome.load_image(_surface)
end
-- Everything else gets forced into a surface
return cairo.Surface(_surface, true)
end
function surface.mt:__call(...)
return surface.load(...)
end
return setmetatable(surface, surface.mt)
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