Add vicious.change_timer: a helper to change the timeout

This is useful in case you want to change the timeout value for a registered widget, e.g. from the format callback function. I am using this to have a shorter timeout interval for the temperature widget when its value is above some threshold. Signed-off-by: Daniel Hahler <[email protected]>
vicious-widgets · Oct 3, 2018 · 0d91a6e · 0d91a6e
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diff --git a/init.lua b/init.lua
@@ -287,6 +287,17 @@ function vicious.call(myw, format, warg)
 end
 -- }}}
 
+-- {{{ Change the timer of a registered widget.
+function vicious.change_timer(reg, timer_)
+  if not reg then return end
+  if timer_ ~= reg.timer then
+    vicious.unregister(nil, true, reg)
+    reg.timer = timer_
+    regregister(reg)
+  end
+end
+-- }}}
+
 return vicious
 
 -- }}}