Behaviour is the same whether I use ticks or height/width
specification. The margin layout wibox did not give me margin padding
either when applied to the barwidget...
Eero - you say it works for you. While your widget specifications are
as per 3.5 usage, the margin layout wrapping is 3.4 usage style. Are
you using the margin box wrapping in 3.5?
-- Mohan Sundaram
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Mohan Sundaram <mohan....@gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried this.
> -- Create a progress bar widget
> barwidget = awful.widget.progressbar()
> barwidget:set_color("#00ff00")
> barwidget:set_background_color("#000000")
> barwidget:set_border_color("#00ff00")
> barwidget:set_vertical(false)
> barwidget:set_width(40)
> barwidget:set_height(12)
> barwidget:set_value(0.5)
>
> -- const = wibox.layout.constraint()
> -- const:set_strategy("exact")
> -- const:set_height(8)
> -- const:set_width(40)
> -- const:set_widget(barwidget)
>
> marginbox = wibox.layout.margin()
> marginbox:set_margins(5)
> marginbox:set_widget(barwidget)
>
> No change in how the widget appears.
> -- Mohan Sundaram
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Eero-Antero Säisä <e...@jakolasku.fi> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> You can wrap the progressbar inside wibox.layout.margin which will give
>> you a nice margin. Honestly I never read the API documentation an I'm
>> just guessing how things work. Would be nice if someone could tell why
>> the height property in progressbar has no effect. Maybe it has something
>> to do with the layout? I don't know.
>>
>> However here's the code that works for me:
>>
>> local volumebar = awful.widget.progressbar()
>> volumebar:set_background_color(beautiful.bg_focus)
>> volumebar:set_color(beautiful.fg_focus)
>> volumebar:set_ticks(true)
>> volumebar:set_ticks_size(5)
>> volumebar:set_width(59)
>>
>> -- item, left, right, top, bottom? can't find the constructor in the API
>> documentation so I'm just guessing..
>> local widget = wibox.layout.margin(volumebar, 5, 5, 6, 6)
>>
>> / Eero
>>
>> On 04/25/2014 05:07 PM, Mohan Sundaram wrote:
>>> Using Awesome 3.5.2 on Ubuntu 14.04.
>>>
>>> a) The API document seems to describe older API format where widget
>>> name is passed as an argument. Is there a place where the new format
>>> is described?
>>>
>>> b) Trying to use the progressbar widget as under
>>>
>>> barwidget=awful.widget.progressbar()
>>> barwidget:set_vertical(false)
>>> barwidget:set_width(40)
>>> barwidget:set_height(8)
>>> barwidget:set_border_color("#00ff00")
>>> barwidget:set_background_color("#000000")
>>> barwidget:set_color("#00ff00")
>>> barwidget:set_value(0.5)
>>>
>>> Added widget in the wibox
>>> right_layout:add(barwidget)
>>>
>>> I'm getting a progressbar box covering the full height of the systray
>>> wibox. Changing the height has no effect. Changing all othe
>>> rparameters using Mod+x to run lua code works as documented.
>>>
>>> Where am I making the mistake? Or is this a bug?
>>>
>>> -- Mohan Sundaram
>>>
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