This layout display the widgets on top of each other. It can also optionally
display only the first one.
The most common use case is to create a composited widget. Other use case
include the creation of a "paged" stack to only display the most
relevant widget without adding extra complexity to the parent layout.
This new syntax is inspired by the Awesome widget 3.2-3.4 API. It
allow cleaner widgets declaration. The produced code is usually much
shorted and easier to read than wibox.widget imperative syntax.
There is already a hack into `awful.widget.common`. This system aim
to make the hack obselete while preserving the useful part.
I think this is also necessary to properly support SVG (with DPI
and resize).
Finally, Qt handle this using the QBrush concept, where you can have
programmatic patterns. Cairo doesn't have this concept, so there is no
"clean" way to have programmatic brushes.
Until now, this layout was "append only". There was no official
APIs to remove, replace, insert and swap widgets. This is fine
for the usual wibox + sensors widget used by the majority of
users, but lack flexibility necessary to use the layout system
to place dynamic elements such as clients.
The methods introduced by this commit are also recursive. This
allow widgets to be decorated, wrapped and splitted without
having to add boilerplate code everywhere.
This remove duplicated code and will allow more "collection"
style layouts to be implemented without logic duplication.
This commit also do some small cleanup to remove duplicated
code now present in `awful.util`.
Fixes https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/issues/617
Instead of throwing a Lua error, the code now just prints an error message to
stderr on invalid markup. For callers which want to handle this case specially,
we add :set_markup_silently() which returns error messages.
Fixes: https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/issues/546
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
Without this fix `wibox.widget.textbox` ignores current theme font
setting and resets it to the initial one.
It becomes handy when the initial theme is tweaked during runtime, ie.
in `rc.lua`. Other AwesomeWM components like `awful` (taglist,
tasklist, menu) are aware and do respect the actual theme settings.
Closes https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/pull/89.
This adds new functions to all widgets that allow to force a specific
width/height. These values override the result from :fit().
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
When emitting layout_changed, the widget is relayouted. If this doesn't actually
change anything, nothing will be redrawn. Thus, this also emits redraw_needed to
force redraws.
This fixes a race condition with some weird tray icons. A new tray icon is
created and the systray is updated. Then this new icon is destroyed immediately
again and at the same time another icon is created. Then, the systray isn't
updated since the number of icons (=the layout) did not actually change.
However, it needs to be updated and so we ended up with broken/missing icons.
Fixes: https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/issues/487
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
This allows scrolling a widget if there is too few space available. There are
several different modes available for how the scrolling "looks like".
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
This adds :get_preferred_size() and :get_preferred_size_at_dpi() which return
the size (=width, height) that the textbox would need if unlimited space is
available.
This also adds :get_height_for_width() and :get_height_for_width_at_dpi() which
return the height that the textbox would need if the given width is available.
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
If someone modifies a cairo surface and then sets the resulting object as the
image of an imagebox, the imagebox needs to redraw. Thus, since surfaces are
modifiable, we cannot assume that nothing changed when the same image is set
multiple times on an imagebox.
However, the dimensions of a surface cannot be changed and thus this does not
need to emit widget::layout_changed.
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
This commit does two things: It gets rid of the reference to the layoutbox that
the default config created and it changes the widget dependency cache to not
keep widgets alive unnecessarily.
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
This function updates a hierarchy if the layout of some widgets changed. It does
nothing on the parts that did not change. This should be more efficient than
recomputing the whole hierarchy whenever something changes.
Once again, this has some positive results on the "benchmark test":
Before:
create wibox: 0.083016 sec/iter ( 13 iters, 1.161 sec for benchmark)
update textclock: 0.00391091 sec/iter (271 iters, 3.219 sec for benchmark)
relayout textclock: 0.00273234 sec/iter (397 iters, 1.087 sec for benchmark)
redraw textclock: 0.0010191 sec/iter (989 iters, 1.745 sec for benchmark)
After:
create wibox: 0.083146 sec/iter ( 13 iters, 1.163 sec for benchmark)
update textclock: 0.00170519 sec/iter (647 iters, 2.201 sec for benchmark)
relayout textclock: 0.000581637 sec/iter (1880 iters, 1.094 sec for benchmark)
redraw textclock: 0.0010167 sec/iter (997 iters, 1.773 sec for benchmark)
So again no difference for creating wiboxes (100.16% compared to before). This
time we also have no real difference for creating wiboxes (99.76%). Update (44%)
and relayout (21%) are improved a lot.
Closes https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/pull/463.
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
This makes the textbox' :draw() and :fit() callbacks use the DPI that is
specified in the given drawing context. With this, the textbox now scales
correctly if different screens have different DPI values.
Idea originally from Daniel.
Closes https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/pull/457.
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
This has some positive results on the "benchmark test". Each single number is
the best one out of three runs.
Before:
create wibox: 0.0826502 sec/iter ( 13 iters, 1.157 sec for benchmark)
update textclock: 0.0186952 sec/iter ( 57 iters, 2.473 sec for benchmark)
relayout textclock: 0.0158112 sec/iter ( 64 iters, 1.028 sec for benchmark)
redraw textclock: 0.0015197 sec/iter (662 iters, 1.861 sec for benchmark)
After:
create wibox: 0.0825672 sec/iter ( 13 iters, 1.154 sec for benchmark)
update textclock: 0.00378412 sec/iter (277 iters, 4.216 sec for benchmark)
relayout textclock: 0.00259056 sec/iter (420 iters, 1.09 sec for benchmark)
redraw textclock: 0.00105128 sec/iter (958 iters, 1.79 sec for benchmark)
We see no significant change in the creation of wiboxes (99.9% compared to
before). Update (20% of the previous run time), relayout (16%) and redraw (69%)
are all sped up by this change.
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
Before this, dependencies between widgets where implicitly discovered by
recursive calls to base.fit_widget() and base.layout_widget(). However, it is
too easy to get this wrong (just call one of these functions from outside of a
widget's :fit() / :layout() function) and the resulting mess would be hard to
debug.
Thus, this commit changes the API so that callers have to identify themselves
and we can explicitly record the dependency between the widgets involved.
This also fixes a bug where no dependencies were tracked for widgets after
:set_visible(false). Whoops...
Sorry for breaking the API for adding this.
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
When a complete repaint is scheduled, also do a relayout, because this is also
the case that we go through when the underlying cairo surface is resized. For
example, resizing a client with a titlebar would trigger this.
Also, going through this code path is necessary since this is the only place
where the dirty area is updated so that it includes "everything". Before this
change, nothing was actually redrawn, because the dirty area was empty.
Fixes: https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/issues/449
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
This accidentally called the draw callbacks with a nil argument instead of the
context. This was introduced in some badly done rebase, sorry! :-(
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>