RedditViewerStacks.js

// Shows latest news from MacStories in a table.
// The table shows an image from the article, if available, and the title of the article.

let inputStr = args.widgetParameter
// if exclude itrms, this meeds to be higger than vLimit
// logError(inputStr)
if ( inputStr == null ) { inputStr = "apollo@scriptable@1@pic@4" }
let vRedditLimit = 15
let vItemCount = 1
var res = inputStr.split("@")
let rReddit = res[1]
let vLimit = res[4]
let baseURL = "www.reddit.com"
let url = "https://" + baseURL + "/r/" + rReddit + "/new.json?limit=" + vRedditLimit + "&show=all"
let req = new Request(url)
let json = await req.loadJSON()
let items = json.data.children
let appURL = res[0] + "://" + baseURL + rReddit
let simpleEmoji = new Font("Menlo-Regular", 10)
let mainText = new Font("GillSans-SemiBold", 14)
let titleTextFont = new Font("GillSans-SemiBold", 14)

// set widget
let w = new ListWidget()
w.setPadding(10, 10, 10, 10)
w.spacing = 1.5


let titleStack = w.addStack()
// titleStack.cornerRadius = 4
titleStack.setPadding(2, 100, 2, 100)
// titleStack.setPadding(top, leading, bottom, trailing)
// titleStack.backgroundColor = new Color("#33ff00", 0.2)


vTitle = "r/" + rReddit
let vLength = vTitle.length
const vMaxSub = 50 // This is for the simpleEmoji font - needs to calculate
let vTitlePadding = ((vMaxSub - vLength) / 2) * 6
titleStack.setPadding(0, vTitlePadding, 0, 0)

let wtitle = titleStack.addText(vTitle)
wtitle.font = titleTextFont
wtitle.textColor = new Color("#33ff00")


  
function addLine(main, link, r, col, alignMe, txtFont) {
  let stack = r.addStack()
//   stack.layoutVertically()
  stack.layoutHorizontally()
  stack.url = link
  switch(alignMe) {
  case "left":
      stack.setPadding(0, 0, 0, 0)
    break;
  case "right":
      let vLength = main.length
      const vMaxSub = 50 // This is for the simpleEmoji font - needs to calculate
      let vPadding = (vMaxSub - vLength) * 6
      stack.setPadding(0, vPadding, 0, 0)
    break;
  case "none":
      stack.setPadding(0, 0, 0, 0)
    break;
  default:
    // code block
  }

  let wMain = stack.addText(main)
  wMain.font = txtFont
  wMain.textColor = col

}

let newLineStack = []
for (item of items) {
      if (! item.data.title.includes("Questions Thread ") && vItemCount <= vLimit ) {
        vItemCount = vItemCount + 1
        
        var myDate = new Date(item.data.created_utc * 1000)
        var myFormDate = addZero(myDate.getHours()) + ":" + addZero(myDate.getMinutes())
        let linkToPost = res[0] + "://" + baseURL + item.data.permalink
        let linkToUser = res[0] + "://" + baseURL + "/user/" + item.data.author
//         log(linkToPost)
        let titleTxt = "• " + item.data.title
        let subTitle = "✾ " + item.data.author + " ↑ " + ("0000" + item.data.score).slice (-3) + " ✐ " + ("0000" + item.data.num_comments).slice (-3) + " ◔ " + myFormDate
        
        newLineStack[vItemCount + "_1"] = w.addStack()
        addLine(titleTxt,linkToPost, newLineStack[vItemCount + "_1"], Color.white(), "none", mainText)
        
        newLineStack[vItemCount + "_2"] = w.addStack()
        addLine(subTitle,linkToUser, newLineStack[vItemCount + "_2"], Color.gray(), "right", simpleEmoji)
      }
    }

w.presentMedium()


function addZero(i) {
  if (i < 10) {
    i = "0" + i;
  }
  return i;
}