recently, I started with openHAB and everything works quite well.
Now I am writing my first custom widget and came along some questions that I could not find an answer for.
This is my first post and I am quite new to the community. So my apologies if I missed some topics that answer some of my questions.
These are my (current) questions: Sharing the widget
Is it enough to open a topic and add the widgetgallery tag?
How do I link the topic with code on github?
Is there a problem if I collect multiple widgets in one repository (e.g. in different subfolders)?
Can I also open one topic for multiple similar widgets or should I open one for each of them?
Settings
5. I have some problems to set default value for a color setting. I would like to take the default value from the themes color settings. Is this possible in the settings or do I have to find a workaround in the code?
6. There are some things that built-in widgets can do that custom widgets can’t do. Especially, I am missing the ability to have a dynamic number of settings (like the dynamic number of series in a chart). This would allow to build more generic widgets. Is this planned as a feature? Is there a workaround?
thank you for answering my questions.
This helps me a lot.
Still there are some points where I would like to “dig a bit deeper”.
I totally agree with you. Just the definition / granularity of “1 purpose” could be subject of discussion
For me, it would be reasonable to
put all my HABPanel Widgets that I’d like to share into one repo
put all openHAB staff dealing with a specific device into one repo
put exactly one widget into one repo (personally, I don’t like this option, especially if some widgets share common code, but that’s just my opinion)
So I would like to hear if there is a problem, if I bundle things in a reasonable way.
OK, understood. No bundles, here
These classes define colors like background-color, text-color and highlighted text color.
I would like to use e.g. the text color as default, but allow the user to change the color in the settings.
This sounds interesting. How can I do that?
I just know how to define setting for custom widgets in the normal way (see image below)
My apologies if my questions were / are not clear enough. I will consider to upload an early stage widget to explain more concrete what my problems are. Just right now I feel that the code is still too messy to share