;;; notibox.el --- PosFrame-based notification UI -*- lexical-binding: t; -*- ;; Copyright (C) 2023 mir ;; Author: mir ;; 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 ;; (at your option) any later version. ;; 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 ;; GNU General Public License for more details. ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ;; along with this program. If not, see . ;;; 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'. ;; it even shows multiple notifications in a stack! ;;; Code: ;; imports (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))) ;; variables / customizations (defvar notibox-width 40) ; characters (defvar notibox-height 4) ; characters (defvar notibox-border-color "#808080") ; just a global default (defvar notibox-current-posframes nil) (defvar last-message nil "Previous value of `current-message', stored for notibox.") (defvar mir/framove-update-interval 0.05 "How many seconds to wait before updating incremental frame positions.") (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. ;; functions - static frame ---------------------------------------------------- (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) ; educated guess... 0)) ;; (stackdepth (or stackdepth 0)) (stackdepth 0) ; we do not care actually (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))) (cl-defun notibox--show (&key timeout &key depth &key buf) "Show the notibox currently prepared, with optional TIMEOUT, at DEPTH, in BUF." (let ((this-notibox (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 )) )) (run-with-timer timeout nil #'notibox-delete this-notibox) (mir/push-notibox this-notibox) ;; (add-to-list 'notibox-current-posframes ;; this-notibox) ) 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))) ;; gotta make it move the others down... (notibox--show :timeout (unless timeout alert-fade-time) ;; :depth (or depth (- (length notibox-current-posframes) 1)) :buf (notibox--prepare-buffer title message)))) (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-delete (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)) (defun notibox/setup-timer () "Start running notibox." (interactive) (run-with-timer notibox--refresh-delay notibox--refresh-delay #'notibox--tail-echoarea)) (defun notibox-test-alert () "Show a sample notibox to prove we can." (interactive) (notibox-alert `(:title ,(random 8096) :message "test of notibox"))) (defun notibox-test-message () "Send a message and see if it gets picked up by notibox." (message "test message %s: %s is a number" (random 40) (random 500))) ;; functions - frame moving ---------------------------------------------------- (defun mir/move-frame (frame pos) "Move FRAME to POS, a cons of (top . left)." (if (frame-live-p frame) (modify-frame-parameters frame `( (top . ,(car pos)) (left . ,(cdr pos)) )))) (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 ) (defun mir/notibox-down-one (frame) "Move FRAME down by `notibox-padding'." (if (frame-live-p frame) (let* ((parms (frame-parameters frame)) (old-y (alist-get 'top parms)) (old-x (alist-get 'left parms))) (mir/framove-gradual frame (cons (+ old-y ;; (- (* notibox-height ;; (window-text-height)) ;; notibox-padding) (/ (+ (* (window-text-height) notibox-height) notibox-padding) 2)) old-x ) 0.125)))) ;; (notibox-test-alert) ;; (notibox-test-message) (defun mir/push-notibox (frame) "Push FRAME onto `notibox-current-posframes' and display it at the top of the stack." (--map (mir/notibox-down-one it) ; move each by the interval - need more infra first (reverse notibox-current-posframes)) (push frame notibox-current-posframes) ) ;; functions - message parsing ------------------------------------------------- (defun notibox--prepare-buffer (title body &optional buffer) "Return the notibox buffer containing TITLE and BODY, properly formatted" (let ((buf (get-buffer-create (format " *notibox-- %s: %s *" title body)))) (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)))) buf)) (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)))) (3 (progn (setq source (car splooted)) (setq contents (format "%s: %s" (cadr splooted) (caddr splooted))))) ) (cons source contents))) (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))))) (defun notibox--tail-echoarea () "Show `current-message' in the notibox. If that does not exist, probably hide it." (if (current-message) (unless (string= last-message (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 ))) (setq last-message (current-message))) ;; (if notibox-current-posframes ;; (notibox-delete (car notibox-current-posframes))) ) ) ;; (add-variable-watcher 'notibox-current-posframes ;; (lambda (symbol newval operation where) ;; "Display the variable in *watched* buffer." ;; (with-current-buffer (get-buffer-create "*watched*") ;; (goto-char (point-max)) ;; (insert ;; (format "\n%s:\n was: %s\n now: %s" ;; symbol ;; (eval symbol) ;; newval))) ;; )) ;; (--map (remove-variable-watcher 'notibox-current-posframes it) ;; (get-variable-watchers 'notibox-current-posframes)) (provide 'notibox) ;;; notibox.el ends here