Sublets\015\012\015\012Sublets are small Ruby scripts that provide data like system information for the panel. They are well included in the main loop of subtle and are limited to 1s of execution time for safety reasons. Additionally sur can manage installed sublets in a rubygems like fashion. A complete list of the sublets that are available in sur can be found here a sublet from scratch is really easy, just create an empty sublet with sur like this:\015\012\015\012bq. sur template foo\015\012\015\012A compending list of the classes with it's functionality can be found in rdoc and informations about the available unit tests in the development section.\015\012\015\012h2. Types\015\012\015\012Generally there are two types of sublets:\015\012* sublets that are updated by given interval in seconds (default 60s)\015\012* sublets that are updated when a file is modified (via inotify) or via socket\015\012\015\012The sublet data must be of type String, everything else will be ignored.\015\012\015\012h2. Hooks\015\012\015\012There are two methods that will be called from subtle on certain conditions:\015\012\015\012* click(): Whenever a mouse button is pressed on a sublets. Can have three arguments: button, x, y\015\012* run(): Whenever either the interval time is expired or the watched file is modified\015\012\015\012h2. Customization\015\012\015\012The color of the ouput of a Sublets can be changed in this way:\015\012\015\012

configure :colorful do |s|\015\012  s.red        = Subtle::Color.new("#ff0000")\015\012  s.green      = Subtle::Color.new("#00ff00")\015\012  s.blue       = Subtle::Color.new("#0000ff")\015\012  s.background = "#303030"\015\012end\015\012\015\012on :run do\015\012  s.data = s.red + "su" + s.green + "bt" + s.blue + "le"\015\012end

\015\012\015\012There is also a way to add a X bitmap to a sublet:\015\012\015\012

configure :iconized do |s|\015\012  s.icon = Subtle::Icon.new("/usr/share/icons/subtle.xbm")\015\012end\015\012\015\012on :run do |s|\015\012  s.data = @icon + "subtle"\015\012end

\015\012\015\012A nice collection of this pixmap can be found Subtle" class="external">here</a> will add a padding of 3px left and right of the pixmap, so keep that in mind when using the click hooks._\015\012\015\012h2. Examples\015\012\015\012Below is the code of a shipped sublets that displays the time. It should be really straight forward:\015\012\015\012

configure :clock do |s|\015\012  s.interval = 60 #< Set interval time\015\012end\015\012\015\012on :run do |s|\015\012  s.data = Time.now.strftime("%d%m%y%H%M") #< Set data\015\012end

\015\012\015\012Another example for the inotify sublet which is also included within subtle:\015\012\015\012

configure :notify do |s|\015\012  s.file = "/tmp/watch"\015\012  s.watch(s.file)\015\012end\015\012\015\012on :run do\015\012  begin\015\012    self.data = IO.readlines(@file).first.chop #< Read data and strip\015\012  rescue => err #< Catch error\015\012    puts err\015\012    self.data = "subtle"\015\012  end\015\012end

\015\012\015\012The watch command also works with Ruby sockets, but be aware of blocking I/O:\015\012\015\012

configure :socket do |s|\015\012  s.socket = TCPSocket.open("localhost", 6600)\015\012  s.watch(s.socket)\015\012end\015\012\015\012on :run do |s|\015\012  begin\015\012    s.data = s.socket.readline.chop #< Read data and strip\015\012  rescue => err #< Catch error\015\012    puts err\015\012    s.data = "subtle"\015\012  end\015\012end

\015\012\015\012_Subtle will automatically set sockets to O_NONBLOCK._\015\012\015\012And finally an example with a click callback:\015\012\015\012

configure :click do |s|\015\012  s.interval = 999 #< Do nothing\015\012end\015\012\015\012on :click do |s, x, y, button|\015\012  find_client("xterm").raise\015\012  puts x, y, button\015\012end\015\012\015\012on :run do |s|\015\012  # Do nothing here\015\012end

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