Thanks Eero. I was instancing barwidget and not marginbox in right_layout. I thought applying a widget over another meant the properties were acquired by the widget on which it is applied. Now I understand it is nesting and not what I had thought.
While the marginbox works, the constrained layout did not work. -- Mohan Sundaram On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Eero-Antero Säisä <e...@jakolasku.fi> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running awesome v3.5.5 and your snippet below works for me. Are you > sure that you're adding the margin widget to the wibox instead of the > barwidget? > > right_layout:add(marginbox) > > A small screenshot to make sure this is the desired output: > http://i.imgur.com/JoPtvM1.png > > / Eero > > On 04/26/2014 11:46 AM, Mohan Sundaram wrote: >> 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 >>>>> >> -- To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org.
