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[whoslucifer]

How do i make cava slide into view from a drawer when something is playing and slide out of view when it stops playing

[whoslucifer]

How do i make cava slide into view from a drawer when something is playing and slide out of view when it stops playing

You will have to move cava from its original position though because when nothing plays the bar disappears and everything in the middle shrinks to occupy the space cava had occupied and vice versa. I've placed cava next to the weather module and it works fine

Replace your waybarcava.sh with this

      #!/bin/bash
      
      #----- Optimized bars animation without much CPU usage increase --------
      bar="▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█"
      dict="s/;//g"
      
      # Calculate the length of the bar outside the loop
      bar_length=${#bar}
      
      # Create dictionary to replace char with bar
      for ((i = 0; i < bar_length; i++)); do
          dict+=";s/$i/${bar:$i:1}/g"
      done
      
      # Create cava config
      config_file="/tmp/bar_cava_config"
      cat >"$config_file" <<EOF
      [general]
      bars = 10
      
      [input]
      method = pulse
      source = auto
      
      [output]
      method = raw
      raw_target = /dev/stdout
      data_format = ascii
      ascii_max_range = 7
      EOF
      
      # Kill cava if it's already running
      pkill -f "cava -p $config_file"
      
      # Run cava and filter output
      cava -p "$config_file" | while read -r line; do
          # Check if the line has non-zero data
          if [[ "$line" =~ [1-7] ]]; then
	          echo "$line" | sed -u "$dict"
          else
	          echo -e "" # clear bars if nothing is playing
          fi
      done