convert blink to callbacks.print

src/common.c

@@ -760,3 +760,24 @@ void print_to_bytes(struct text_object *obj, char *p, int p_max_size)
 	}
 	snprintf(p, p_max_size, "%s", buf);
 }
+
+void print_blink(struct text_object *obj, char *p, int p_max_size)
+{
+	//blinking like this can look a bit ugly if the chars in the font don't have the same width
+	char buf[max_user_text];
+	static int visible = 1;
+	static int last_len = 0;
+
+	memset(buf, 0, max_user_text);
+
+	if (visible) {
+		generate_text_internal(buf, max_user_text, *obj->sub, &info);
+		last_len = strlen(buf);
+	} else {
+		for (int i = 0; i < last_len; i++)
+			buf[i] = ' ';
+	}
+
+	snprintf(p, p_max_size, "%s", buf);
+	visible = !visible;
+}

src/common.h

@@ -126,5 +126,6 @@ void print_battery_short(struct text_object *, char *, int);
 #endif /* !__OpenBSD__ */
 
 void print_to_bytes(struct text_object *, char *, int);
+void print_blink(struct text_object *, char *, int);
 
 #endif /* _COMMON_H */

src/conky.c

@@ -1153,19 +1153,6 @@ void generate_text_internal(char *p, int p_max_size,
 					p[0] = 0;
 				}
 			}
-			OBJ(blink) {
-				//blinking like this can look a bit ugly if the chars in the font don't have the same width
-				char buf[max_user_text];
-				unsigned int j;
-
-				generate_text_internal(buf, max_user_text, *obj->sub, cur);
-				snprintf(p, p_max_size, "%s", buf);
-				if(total_updates % 2) {
-					for(j=0; p[j] != 0; j++) {
-						p[j] = ' ';
-					}
-				}
-			}
 			break;
 		}
 #undef DO_JUMP

src/core.c

@@ -1458,6 +1458,7 @@ struct text_object *construct_text_object(const char *s, const char *arg, long
 	END OBJ_ARG(blink, 0, "blink needs a argument")
 		obj->sub = malloc(sizeof(struct text_object));
 		extract_variable_text_internal(obj->sub, arg);
+		obj->callbacks.print = &print_blink;
 	END OBJ_ARG(to_bytes, 0, "to_bytes needs a argument")
 		obj->sub = malloc(sizeof(struct text_object));
 		extract_variable_text_internal(obj->sub, arg);