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>
These caches, well, cache the result of the :layout and :fit callbacks on
widgets.
Clearing caches is done by recording dependencies between a widget. When a call
to base.fit_widget() or base.layout_widget() recursively causes another call to
such a function, this means that the earlier widget depends on the later widget.
This dependency is recorded and when the later widget emits
widget::layout_changed, the caches of all the widgets involved are cleared.
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
Having two modules named "base" is confusing and "wibox.layout" doesn't contain
much useful stuff. This is a first step for removing wibox.layout by moving a
function which should only ever be used internally in awesome.
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>