added skeletons, more work done on install.py

install.py

@@ -12,34 +12,87 @@ home = expanduser("~")
 config_dir = home + '/.config/StartTree'
 config_path = home + '/.config/StartTree/config.yaml'
 
-# check if .config path exists
-if not os.path.isdir(home + '/.config'):
+# get cache path
+cache_dir = home + '/.cache/StartTree'
+
+def setup():
+    # check if .config path exists
+    if not os.path.isdir(home + '/.config'):
         print("The directory '~/.config' does not exist, or you do not have permissions to edit it.")
         exit()
 
-# check if .config/StartTree exists, create it and config if not
-if not os.path.isdir(config_dir):
+    if not os.path.isdir(home + '/.cache'):
+        print("The directory '~/.cache' does not exist, or you do not have permissions to edit it.")
+        exit()
+
+    # check if .config/StartTree exists, create it and config if not
+    if not os.path.isdir(config_dir):
         print("Creating '~/.config/StartTree'...")
         os.mkdir(config_dir)
         print("Copying config.yaml")
         copyfile("./config.yaml", config_path)
         print("")
 
-# check if config.yaml exists
-if not os.path.exists(config_path):
+    # check if config.yaml exists
+    if not os.path.exists(config_path):
         print("No config.yaml found in '~/.config/StartTree'")
         print("Copy the example config with:")
         print("\tcp ./config.yaml $HOME/.config/StartTree/config.yaml")
         print("or create your own in that directory.")
         exit()
 
+    # create directory structure in .cache
+    if not os.path.isdir(cache_dir):
+        print("Creating '" + cache_dir + "'...")
+        os.mkdir(cache_dir)
 
-file_dict = {}
-num_columns = 0
+        print("Creating '" + cache_dir + "/styles'")
+        os.mkdir(cache_dir + '/styles')
 
-with open(config_path, mode='r') as file:
+    print("Creating style.css")
+    copyfile("./skeletons/style.css", cache_dir + '/styles/style.css')
+
+    print("Creating Hack.ttf")
+    copyfile("./skeletons/Hack.ttf", cache_dir + '/styles/Hack.ttf')
+
+def parse_yaml():
+    with open(config_path, mode='r') as file:
         file_dict = yaml.full_load(file)
         file.close()
 
-num_columns = len(file_dict)
+    return file_dict
 
+def print_keys(dictionary):
+    for key in dictionary:
+        print(key)
+        if isinstance(dictionary[key], dict):
+            print_keys(dictionary[key])
+
+def gen_columns(html_file):
+    print("here")
+
+def gen_html():
+    print("Generating index.html...")
+
+    # open files
+    skeleton_html = open('./skeletons/index.html', 'r')
+    cache_html = open(cache_dir + '/index.html', 'w')
+
+    # copy skeleton_html to cache_html until Column Start comment
+    lines = skeleton_html.readlines()
+    for line in lines:
+        if line == "<!-- Columns start -->":
+            gen_columns(cache_html)
+        else:
+            cache_html.write(line)
+
+    # close files
+    skeleton_html.close()
+    cache_html.close()
+
+    print("Done!")
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    setup()
+    file_dict = parse_yaml()
+    gen_html()

skeletons/index.html

@@ -9,13 +9,10 @@
     <div class="container">
       <div class="prompt">~<span> λ</span> tree</div>
       <div class="row">
-        <!-- Columns here -->
-
+<!-- Columns start -->
       </div>
       <div class="prompt">~<span> λ</span> ddg</div>
-      <!-- form for search engine -->
-
-      </div>
+      <form action="https://duckduckgo.com/" method="GET">
         <h1>search: </h1>
         <input type="text" name="q" autofocus="autofocus">
       </form>

skeletons/style.css

@@ -0,0 +1,133 @@
+@import url('/home/paul/.cache/wal/colors.css');
+@font-face {
+    font-family: "Roboto Mono";
+    src: url("./Hack.ttf");
+}
+
+:root {
+    --font: "Roboto Mono";
+    /* --background: var(--background) !important; */
+    /* --foreground: #fffffe; */
+    /* --pink: #e53170; */
+    /* --red: #f25f4c; */
+    /* --orange: #ff8906; */
+    /* --branch: 1px solid #a7a9be; */
+    --branch: 1px solid var(--color12);
+}
+
+html {
+    font-size: 22px;
+}
+
+body {
+    background: var(--background);
+}
+
+.container {
+    position: absolute;
+    top: 50%;
+    left: 50%;
+    transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
+}
+
+.prompt {
+    font-family: var(--font);
+    color: var(--color5);
+}
+
+.prompt~.prompt {
+    padding: 1.5rem 0 0.3125rem;
+}
+
+span {
+    color: var(--color10);
+}
+
+h1 {
+    display: inline;
+    font-family: var(--font);
+    font-size: 1rem;
+    font-weight: normal;
+    color: var(--color9);
+}
+
+.tree > ul {
+    margin: 0;
+    padding-left: 1rem;
+    padding-right: 1rem;
+}
+
+ul {
+    list-style: none;
+    padding-left: 2.5rem;
+}
+
+li {
+    position: relative;
+}
+
+li::before, li::after {
+    content: "";
+    position: absolute;
+    left: -0.75rem;
+}
+
+li::before {
+    border-top: var(--branch);
+    top: 0.75rem;
+    width: 0.5rem;
+}
+
+li::after {
+    border-left: var(--branch);
+    height: 100%;
+    top: 0.25rem;
+}
+
+li:last-child::after {
+    height: 0.5rem;
+}
+
+a {
+    font-family: var(--font);
+    font-size: 1rem;
+    color: var(--color6);
+    text-decoration: none;
+    outline: none;
+}
+
+a:hover {
+    color: var(--color12);
+    background: var(--background);
+}
+
+form h1 {
+    padding-left: 0.125rem;
+}
+
+input {
+    font-family: var(--font);
+    font-size: 1rem;
+    color: var(--color6);
+    background-color: var(--background);
+    border-width: 1px;
+    border-color: var(--color12);
+    border-style: solid;
+    padding-top: 4px;
+    padding-bottom: 4px;
+}
+
+.column {
+  flex: 50%;
+  padding: 5px;
+}
+
+.row {
+  display: flex;
+}
+
+.row:after {
+  content: "";
+  display: table;
+  clear: both;
+}