[WIDGET] Rotation-Box

[EvysGarden]

Description of the widget

Rotation-Box

The rotation box can contain an arbitrary number of widgets but only ever displays one.

Properties

• index: int The index of the widget to display.
• transition: string the name of the transition. Possible values: "slideright", "slideleft", "slideup", "slidedown", "none"
• transitionback: string the name of the back transition. Possible values: "slideright", "slideleft", "slideup", "slidedown", "none"
• duration: duration the duration of the transition
• durationback: duration the duration of the back transition

Example

(defvar varIndex 0)

(eventbox
  :onhover "eww update varIndex=1"
  :onhoverlost "eww update varIndex=0"
  (rotationbox
    :index varIndex
    :transition "slideright"
    :transitionback "slideleft"
    "0"
    "1"))

slide items

Implementation proposal

No response

Example usage

I've got the idea when i was implementing a clock/date widget. I wanted the numbers to slide from time to date on hover and back. Something like this:

active      onhover
______      ______
| %H | <--> | %d |
---
| %M | <--> | %m |
---
| %S | <--> | %y |

I first tried to implement it with to revealers, where one reveals when the other hides but couldn't quite get it to work because they were both taking their own space while I wanted them to use the same space. (Hope that makes sense)

Additional context

If there is another way of doing this I'll gladly use it. I'm new to eww and couldn't find an easy way.

[elkowar]

hmmmmmmm this would be really cool to have, although implementation wouldn't be all that trivial, and it's definitely a niche usecase. I'm pretty sure it should be possible to do something like this with revealers currently, although I'm painfully aware of how weird the revealer spacing issues are -- GTK really doesn't like us ^^'

[rice7th]

I think that cycle widget might be a more appropriate name