al-skel/home/.config/awesome/vicious/helpers.lua

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-- Licensed under the GNU General Public License v2
--  * (c) 2010, Adrian C. <anrxc@sysphere.org>
--  * (c) 2009, Rémy C. <shikamaru@mandriva.org>
--  * (c) 2009, Benedikt Sauer <filmor@gmail.com>
--  * (c) 2009, Henning Glawe <glaweh@debian.org>
--  * (c) 2009, Lucas de Vries <lucas@glacicle.com>
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-- {{{ Grab environment
local pairs = pairs
local rawget = rawget
local require = require
local tonumber = tonumber
local io = { open = io.open }
local setmetatable = setmetatable
local getmetatable = getmetatable
local string = {
  upper = string.upper,
  format = string.format
}
-- }}}


-- Helpers: provides helper functions for vicious widgets
-- vicious.helpers
local helpers = {}


-- {{{ Variable definitions
local scroller = {}
-- }}}

-- {{{ Helper functions
-- {{{ Loader of vicious modules
function helpers.wrequire(table, key)
  local module = rawget(table, key)
  return module or require(table._NAME .. "." .. key)
end
-- }}}

-- {{{ Expose path as a Lua table
function helpers.pathtotable(dir)
  return setmetatable({ _path = dir },
    { __index = function(table, index)
        local path = table._path .. '/' .. index
        local f = io.open(path)
        if f then
          local s = f:read("*all")
          f:close()
          if s then
            return s
          else
            local o = { _path = path }
            setmetatable(o, getmetatable(table))
            return o
          end
        end
    end
  })
end
-- }}}

-- {{{ Format a string with args
function helpers.format(format, args)
  for var, val in pairs(args) do
    format = format:gsub("$" .. (tonumber(var) and var or
                                 var:gsub("[-+?*]", function(i) return "%"..i end)),
                         val)
  end

  return format
end
-- }}}

-- {{{ Format units to one decimal point
function helpers.uformat(array, key, value, unit)
  for u, v in pairs(unit) do
    array["{"..key.."_"..u.."}"] = string.format("%.1f", value/v)
  end

  return array
end
-- }}}

-- {{{ Escape a string
function helpers.escape(text)
  local xml_entities = {
    ["\""] = "&quot;",
    ["&"]  = "&amp;",
    ["'"]  = "&apos;",
    ["<"]  = "&lt;",
    [">"]  = "&gt;"
  }

  return text and text:gsub("[\"&'<>]", xml_entities)
end
-- }}}

-- {{{ Escape a string for save usage on the command line
function helpers.shellquote(s)
  if s == nil then return "" end
  -- use single quotes, and put single quotes into double quotes
  -- the string $'b is then quoted as '$'"'"'b'"'"'
  return "'" .. s:gsub("'", "'\"'\"'") .. "'"
end
-- }}}

-- {{{ Capitalize a string
function helpers.capitalize(text)
  return text and text:gsub("([%w])([%w]*)", function(c, s)
                              return string.upper(c) .. s
                           end)
end
-- }}}

-- {{{ Truncate a string
function helpers.truncate(text, maxlen)
  local txtlen = text:len()

  if txtlen > maxlen then
    text = text:sub(1, maxlen - 3) .. "..."
  end

  return text
end
-- }}}

-- {{{ Scroll through a string
function helpers.scroll(text, maxlen, widget)
  if not scroller[widget] then
    scroller[widget] = { i = 1, d = true }
  end

  local txtlen = text:len()
  local state  = scroller[widget]

  if txtlen > maxlen then
    if state.d then
      text = text:sub(state.i, state.i + maxlen) .. "..."
      state.i = state.i + 3

      if maxlen + state.i >= txtlen then
        state.d = false
      end
    else
      text = "..." .. text:sub(state.i, state.i + maxlen)
      state.i = state.i - 3

      if state.i <= 1 then
        state.d = true
      end
    end
  end

  return text
end
-- }}}

return helpers

-- }}}