From 56c15da3071dcac26ab711a56bceb53c760d45df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dodo <dodo.the.last@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:44:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] awful.keygrabber: capi.keygrabber stack

Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
---
 lib/awful/init.lua.in       |  1 +
 lib/awful/keygrabber.lua.in | 87 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 88 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 lib/awful/keygrabber.lua.in

diff --git a/lib/awful/init.lua.in b/lib/awful/init.lua.in
index 2311447e4..6c328bda9 100644
--- a/lib/awful/init.lua.in
+++ b/lib/awful/init.lua.in
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ require("awful.screen")
 require("awful.tag")
 require("awful.util")
 require("awful.widget")
+require("awful.keygrabber")
 require("awful.menu")
 require("awful.mouse")
 require("awful.remote")
diff --git a/lib/awful/keygrabber.lua.in b/lib/awful/keygrabber.lua.in
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6ee604fae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/awful/keygrabber.lua.in
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- @author dodo
+-- @copyright 2012 dodo
+-- @release @AWESOME_VERSION@
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+local ipairs = ipairs
+local table = table
+local capi = {
+    keygrabber = keygrabber }
+
+--- Keygrabber Stack
+module("awful.keygrabber")
+
+-- Private data
+local grabbers = {}
+local keygrabbing = false
+
+
+local function grabber(mod, key, event)
+    for i, g in ipairs(grabbers) do
+        -- continue if the grabber explicitly returns false
+        if g(mod, key, event) ~= false then
+            break
+        end
+    end
+end
+
+--- Stop grabbing the keyboard for the provided callback.
+-- When no callback is given, the least grabber gets removed (last one added to the stack).
+-- @param g The key grabber that must be removed.
+function stop(g)
+    for i, v in ipairs(grabbers) do
+        if v == g then
+            table.remove(grabbers, i)
+            break
+        end
+    end
+    -- stop the global key grabber if the last grabber disappears from stack
+    if #grabbers == 0 then
+        keygrabbing = false
+        capi.keygrabber.stop()
+    end
+end
+
+---
+-- Grab keyboard and read pressed keys, calling the least callback function from
+-- stack at each  key press, until stack is empty. </br>
+-- Calling run with the same callback again will bring the callback
+-- to the top of the stack. </br></br>
+-- The callback function is passed three arguments: </br>
+-- a table containing modifiers keys, a string with the key pressed and a
+-- string with either "press" or "release" to indicate the event type.</br></br>
+-- A callback can return false to pass the events to the next key grabber in the stack.
+-- @param g The key grabber callback that will get the key events until it will be deleted or a new grabber is added.
+-- @return the given callback `g`
+-- @usage Following function can be bound to a key, and used to resize a client
+-- using keyboard.
+-- <p><code>
+-- function resize(c) <br/>
+--   local grabber = awful.keygrabber.run(function(mod, key, event) </br>
+--     if event == "release" then return end </br></br>
+--
+--     if     key == 'Up'   then awful.client.moveresize(0, 0, 0, 5, c) <br/>
+--     elseif key == 'Down' then awful.client.moveresize(0, 0, 0, -5, c) <br/>
+--     elseif key == 'Right' then awful.client.moveresize(0, 0, 5, 0, c) <br/>
+--     elseif key == 'Left'  then awful.client.moveresize(0, 0, -5, 0, c) <br/>
+--     else   awful.keygrabber.stop(grabber) <br/>
+--     end <br/><br/>
+--
+--   end) <br/>
+-- end <br/>
+-- </code></p>
+function run(g)
+    -- Remove the grabber if its in stack
+    stop(g)
+    -- Record the grabber has latest added
+    table.insert(grabbers, 1, g)
+    -- start the keygrabber if its not running already
+    if not keygrabbing then
+        keygrabbing = true
+        capi.keygrabber.run(grabber)
+    end
+    return g
+end
+
+-- vim: filetype=lua:expandtab:shiftwidth=4:tabstop=8:softtabstop=4:textwidth=80