Allow multiple lines of output

[protist]

I'd love to have my todo.sh list on the dashboard, but Awesome Widgets doesn't appear to process newlines correctly. It'd be great if we could have multi-line output.

(Also, interpreting ANSI colour codes would be very cool; I'm happy to open up a new issue for this if you like.)

[arcan1s]

As far as I remember my tests, only <br> is recognizable as new line separator.

The general idea is to support on text configuration HTML only. In this context I may suggest you two cases which may be implemented on my side:

1. For configuration create "Replace \n to <br>" checkbox.
2. For custom commands create a special filters which should be selected from interface. For your example they are may be:
   1. Replace \n to <br>
   2. Convert shell colours to html

[arcan1s]

jfyi i've implemented both of them but didn't test yet. Do you have any suggestion about filters which may be applied for the custom scripts?

[arcan1s]

hmm, I've improved the filters so except for standard filters (color, \n and \t, spaces) it may apply any other custom filter by using json configuration /usr/share/awesomewidgets/scripts/awesomewidgets-extscripts-filters.json

[arcan1s]

will be released on this week if all will be ok

[protist]

Apologies for the delay in response. In terms of where to place settings, I'm a little conflicted. It'd be useful to select interpretation of '\n' and colour for the widget as a whole, so that users could insert newlines between their non-custom commands. However, making the option specific to individual custom commands gives more control to users. I guess I tend towards the former, but very slightly.

In terms of filters, I think you have them all covered. I had a quick read but the only other possibility might be \r. Obviously it's fairly rare, and probably not even worth considering for *nix users. Thanks for the quick response.

[arcan1s]

ok thanks for the feedback, will implement \r to the filter list

[arcan1s]

implemented. As far as there is no any plan for the future release, the new version will be released on Monday.

[protist]

I just tested and it's working great! However, I'm finding a really strange bug; it's not printing v's! For example, the following desktop file.

[Desktop%20Entry]
Comment=Print todo list
Encoding=UTF-8
Exec=\"echo A caravan of travellers.\"
Name=todo.desktop
X-AW-Active=true
X-AW-ApiVersion=3
X-AW-Filters="color,newline"
X-AW-Interval=60
X-AW-Number=3
X-AW-Output=true
X-AW-Prefix=bash -c
X-AW-Redirect=nothing

[arcan1s]

hm, please remove line 25 at /usr/share/awesomewidgets/scripts/awesomewidgets-extscripts-filters.json and comma at the end of line 24. Probably it is caused by the fact that usually unused \v (vertical tab) parsed from json as v

[protist]

Perfect! I can confirm that v's now work perfectly.

[protist]

Also, related to multiple lines, having left justification as an option instead of centred would be excellent. I'm happy to open up a new issue if you like.

[arcan1s]

it should be supported by html tags. Smth like <p align="left">$custom</p>

[protist]

Oh brilliant! Thanks for that!