notibox/notibox.el

;;; notibox.el --- PosFrame-based notification UI  -*- lexical-binding: t; -*-

;; Copyright (C) 2023  mir

;; Author: mir <mirmarq428@gmail.com>
;; Keywords:frames,convenience,help
;; Package-Requires: ((posframe) (alert) (dash))

;; This file is NOT part of GNU Emacs.

;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
;; the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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;; This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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;;; Commentary:

;; This package shows a temporary child frame which mirrors the contents of the
;; echo area.  It was designed to be used with configurations that hide the echo
;; area by splitting it into a `minibuffer-frame'.

;;; Code:

(require 'posframe)
(require 'alert)
(require 'dash)
(if (not (fboundp #'string-pixel-width))
    (progn
      (require 'shr) ;for `shr-string-pixel-width'
      (defalias #'string-pixel-width #'shr-string-pixel-width)))

(defvar notibox-width 40) ; characters
(defvar notibox-height 4) ; characters
(defvar notibox-border-color "#808080")
(defgroup notibox nil
  "The notification box.")
(defcustom notibox-corner 'bottomright
  "Corner in which to show the NotiBox."
  :type '(choice
	  (const :tag "Top Left" 'topleft)
	  (const :tag "Bottom Left" 'bottomleft)
	  (const :tag "Top Right" 'topright)
	  (const :tag "Bottom Right" 'bottomright)))
(defvar notibox-padding 30)
(defvar alert-fade-time 5); seconds, also provided by `alert' package
(defvar notibox--refresh-delay 0.1) ; seconds. Probably don't change this one.
(defun notibox--get-position (&optional stackdepth)
  "Return the starting coordinate at which to place the next notibox, as cons.

If STACKDEPTH is non-nil and nonzero, return a position that far down."
  (let* (
	 ;; need to not overlap the gtk scrollbar
	 (scrollbar-width (or (if (eq x-toolkit-scroll-bars 'gtk)
				  30) ; wild guess...
			      0))
	 (stackdepth (or stackdepth 0))
	 (parent-width (frame-pixel-width))
	 (child-width (* notibox-width (string-pixel-width " ")))
	 (parent-height (frame-pixel-height))
	 (child-height (* notibox-height (line-pixel-height)))
	 (padded-height (+ child-height notibox-padding))
	 (x-justify (pcase notibox-corner
			     ((or 'topleft 'bottomleft) notibox-padding)
			     ((or 'topright 'bottomright)
			      (- (- parent-width scrollbar-width)
				 (+ child-width notibox-padding)))))
	 (y-justify (pcase notibox-corner
		      ((or 'topleft 'topright) notibox-padding)
		      ((or 'bottomleft 'bottomright)
		       (- parent-height (+ child-height notibox-padding)))))
	 (y-direction (pcase notibox-corner
			((or 'topleft 'topright) #'+)
			((or 'bottomleft 'bottomright) #'-)))
	 (y-coord (funcall y-direction y-justify (* stackdepth padded-height)))
	 )
    (cons x-justify y-coord)
    ))
;; (notibox--get-position 3)

(defun notibox--prepare-buffer (title body &optional buffer)
  "Populate the `*notibox*' buffer (or BUFFER if specified) with TITLE and BODY properly formatted."
  (let ((buf (get-buffer-create (or buffer "*notibox*"))))
    (with-current-buffer buf
      (let ((inhibit-read-only t))
	(erase-buffer)
	(insert (format "%s\n%s\n%s" ;; (buttonize title #'view-echo-area-messages)
			title
			(propertize (make-string notibox-width ?─)
				    'face `((:foreground ,notibox-border-color)))
			body))))))
;; (notibox--prepare-buffer "test" "this better work gadahgit" (or nil "*notibox-2*"))
;; (get-buffer-create "*notibox-2*")
;; wait, we need to be actually basing the things on the buffers huh

(defvar notibox-current-posframes nil)
(cl-defun notibox--show (&key timeout &key depth &key buf)
  "Show the notibox currently prepared, with optional TIMEOUT, at DEPTH, in BUF."
  (add-to-list 'notibox-current-posframes
	       (let ((buffer (get-buffer-create (or buf "*notibox*"))))
		 (posframe-show buffer
				:position (notibox--get-position depth)
				:left-fringe 0
				:right-fringe 0
				:max-width notibox-width
				:max-height notibox-height
				:min-width notibox-width
				:min-height notibox-height
				:border-width 2
				:border-color notibox-border-color
				:timeout timeout)))
  nil)

(defun notibox-alert (info)
  "Show a notibox corresponding with INFO.  Can* be used as a backend for `alert'."
  (let* ((message (plist-get info :message))
	 (title   (plist-get info :title))
	 (timeout (plist-get info :persistent))
	 (depth   (plist-get info :depth)))
    (notibox--prepare-buffer title message)
    (notibox--show :timeout (unless timeout alert-fade-time)
		   :depth (or depth (- (length notibox-current-posframes) 1)))))

(defun notibox--resolve-frame (object)
  "Return the /frame reference/ signified by OBJECT, whatever it may be."
  (cond
   ((framep object) object) ;this is the easy one
   ((windowp object) (window-frame object))
   ((bufferp object) (window-frame (get-window-buffer object)))
   ((stringp object)
    (window-frame (get-buffer-window (get-buffer object))))
   ((symbolp object)
    (window-frame (get-buffer-window (get-buffer (format "%s" object)))))
   ))
;; (notibox--resolve-frame "*notibox*")

(defun notibox--hide (frame)
  "Stop showing FRAME."
  (if (frame-live-p frame)
      (posframe-hide (window-buffer (frame-selected-window frame)))))

(defun notibox-delete (frame)
  "Delete the notibox FRAME.

If FRAME is the root Emacs window, or some other symbol, hide all notiboxes."
  (let ((frame (notibox--resolve-frame frame)))
    (if frame
	(notibox--hide frame)
      (notibox--hide (car notibox-current-posframes))
      ))
  
  (pop notibox-current-posframes))
;; (frame-parent (selected-frame)) ;=> nil
;; (frame-live-p (car notibox-current-posframes))
;; (notibox-delete (car notibox-current-posframes))

(defun notibox--parse-message (msg)
  "Given string MSG, return a cons of source and contents.
If the source is not obvious, use `current-buffer'."
  (let* (source
	 contents
	 (splooted (split-string msg ": ")))
    (pcase (length splooted)
      ;; problem: the echo area shows only cdr, whereas messages buffer shows the source fn we want..
      (1 (progn
	   (setq source
		 (format "%s"
			 (current-buffer)))
	   (setq contents
		 (car splooted))))
      (2 (progn
	   (setq source (car splooted))
	   (setq contents (cadr splooted))))
      )
    ;; (message "[debug] message: %s" msg)
    (cons source contents)))
;; (split-string "evil-forward-character: End of line" ": ")
;; (length '("evil-forward-character" "end of line"))
;; (split-string "this is a valid message" ": ")
;; (notibox--parse-message "evil-forward-char: End of line")
;; (notibox--parse-message "this is a badly formed message")
(defun buflast (buffer)
  "Return the last line of BUFFER as a string, without linebreaks."
  (with-current-buffer buffer
    (save-excursion
      (goto-char (- (point-max) 1)) ; there is a \n at the end of every buffer
      (buffer-substring-no-properties (point-at-bol) (point-max)))))
;; (buflast (get-buffer "*Messages*"))

(defun notibox--tail-echoarea ()
  "Show `current-message' in the notibox.  If that does not exist, probably hide it."
  (if (current-message)
      (let* ((notibox-border-color "#0faa0f") ; hacky, can we set it elsewhere?
	     (parsed-msg
	      (notibox--parse-message
	       ;; (current-message)
	       (buflast (get-buffer "*Messages*")) ; workaround for abbreviated stuff
	       ))
	     (title (car parsed-msg))
	     (contents (cdr parsed-msg)))
	(notibox-alert `( :title ,title
			  :message ,contents
			  :depth 0)))
    (if notibox-current-posframes
	(notibox-delete (car notibox-current-posframes))))
  )

(defun notibox/setup-timer ()
  "Start running notibox."
  (interactive)
  (run-with-timer notibox--refresh-delay notibox--refresh-delay #'notibox--tail-echoarea))

;; (notibox-delete 'anything)
(defun notibox-test-alert ()
  "Show a sample notibox to prove we can."
  (interactive)
  (notibox-alert '(:title "five" :message "six")))
;; (notibox-alert '(:title "一" :message "二" :timeout 5 :depth 0))

;; begin frame moving experiments. thought we already did this...
(setq test-frame (posframe-show "*Messages*"
				:position '(800 . 50)
				:width 30
				:height 16))
(defun mir/move-frame (frame pos)
  "Move FRAME to POS, a cons of (top . left)."
  (modify-frame-parameters frame
			   `(
			     (top . ,(car pos))
			     (left . ,(cdr pos))
			     )))
;; (frame-parameters test-frame)
;; (mir/move-frame test-frame '(300 . 1200))
(defvar mir/framove-update-interval 0.05
  "How many seconds to wait before updating incremental frame positions.")

(defun mir/framove-gradual (frame newpos duration)
  "Move FRAME to NEWPOS ( a cons of top and left) over DURATION.

intermediate positions are calculated via `mir/framove-update-interval'."
  (let* (
	 (how-many-steps (/ duration mir/framove-update-interval))
	 (updates-num-seq (number-sequence 1 how-many-steps))
	 (timestamps (--map (* mir/framove-update-interval it) updates-num-seq))
	 (beg-top (frame-parameter frame 'top))
	 (beg-left (frame-parameter frame 'left))
	 (end-top (car newpos))
	 (end-left (cdr newpos))
	 (top-diff (/ (- end-top beg-top) (float how-many-steps)))
	 (left-diff (/ (- end-left beg-left) (float how-many-steps)))
	 (tops (or (number-sequence beg-top end-top top-diff) 0))
	 (lefts (or (number-sequence beg-left end-left left-diff) 0))
	 (uhm
	  (--map (list
		  (or (elt timestamps it) duration)
		  (or (elt tops it) beg-top)
		  (or (elt lefts it) beg-left)
		  )
		 updates-num-seq
		 ))
	 (timerfun (lambda (threelist)
		     (let ((timestamp (-first-item threelist))
			   (top (-second-item threelist))
			   (left (-third-item threelist)))
		       (if (and top left)
			   (run-with-timer timestamp nil ;no repeat
					   #'mir/move-frame
					   frame
					   (cons (round top) (round left))
					   )
			 ;; (message "%s" threelist)
			 ))))
	 )
    (mapcar timerfun uhm)
    )
  nil
  )
;; (mir/framove-gradual test-frame '(500 . 1400) 1)
;; (mir/move-frame test-frame '(500 . 500))

(provide 'notibox)
;;; notibox.el ends here