insta360-link-tools/plasmoid/package/contents/ui/logic.js

/*
 * Pure helpers for the joystick applet.
 *
 * Kept free of QML types so they can be unit-tested with node; see
 * tests/test_joystick_logic.js. `.pragma library` means this file holds no
 * per-instance state and cannot touch the QML context, which is exactly the
 * constraint that keeps it testable.
 */
.pragma library

// Quote a value for /bin/sh. Config values (binary path, device, preset name)
// all reach a shell, so this is a boundary that has to hold.
function shq(s) {
    return "'" + String(s).replace(/'/g, "'\\''") + "'";
}

// The invocation prefix shared by every command the applet runs.
function baseCmd(linkctl, device) {
    var c = shq(linkctl || "linkctl") + " --force --json";
    if (device && device !== "") {
        c += " --device " + shq(device);
    }
    return c;
}

// Directories searched for the binary, in order. Mirrors the resolver in
// bin/linkctl-macro. $HOME is left for the shell to expand.
var SEARCH_DIRS = [
    "/usr/local/bin",
    "/usr/bin",
    "\"$HOME/.local/bin\"",
    "\"$HOME/.cargo/bin\"",
    "\"$HOME/.local/share/mise/shims\"",
    "\"$HOME/.asdf/shims\"",
    "/var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin"
];

/*
 * Build a shell command that prints the absolute path of the binary.
 *
 * Plasma runs applet commands through KProcess::setShellCommand, which is
 * `/bin/sh -c` inheriting plasmashell's environment. That environment never
 * sources a login profile, so anything that puts linkctl on PATH from
 * ~/.bashrc or similar (mise and asdf shims, ~/.local/bin on some distros) is
 * invisible to the applet even though it works in a terminal. Searching
 * explicitly is the only reliable way to find it.
 */
function resolveCommand(name) {
    return "n=" + shq(name || "linkctl") + "; "
        + "command -v \"$n\" 2>/dev/null || "
        + "{ for d in " + SEARCH_DIRS.join(" ") + "; do "
        + "[ -x \"$d/$n\" ] && printf '%s\\n' \"$d/$n\" && break; "
        + "done; }";
}

/*
 * Build the shell command for one joystick tick.
 *
 * nx/ny are the normalised stick position, ny positive upwards. Returns ""
 * when the deflection on both axes is too small to be worth a command, so the
 * caller can skip the tick entirely.
 *
 * Each axis needs its own linkctl call because the relative commands are
 * single-axis, so a diagonal push produces two, chained with ";".
 */
function tickCommand(base, nx, ny, stepMax, invertPan, invertTilt) {
    var x = invertPan ? -nx : nx;
    var y = invertTilt ? -ny : ny;
    var dx = Math.abs(x) * stepMax;
    var dy = Math.abs(y) * stepMax;
    var parts = [];
    // Per-axis threshold, so a mostly-horizontal push does not also creep
    // vertically. Below 0.5 degrees the camera's 0.1 degree resolution makes
    // the step pointless anyway.
    if (dx >= 0.5) {
        parts.push(base + (x > 0 ? " right " : " left ") + dx.toFixed(1));
    }
    if (dy >= 0.5) {
        parts.push(base + (y > 0 ? " up " : " down ") + dy.toFixed(1));
    }
    return parts.join(" ; ");
}

/*
 * Turn a set of held direction keys into a stick vector.
 *
 * `held` has boolean left/right/up/down members. Opposing keys cancel, and a
 * diagonal is normalised to length 1 so holding two keys does not move the
 * camera faster than holding one.
 *
 * Key codes are deliberately not mapped here: this file is a `.pragma
 * library` and so cannot reach the Qt namespace for Qt.Key_*. The QML side
 * resolves a key code to a direction name and passes the result in.
 */
function vectorFromKeys(held) {
    var x = 0;
    var y = 0;
    if (held.left) {
        x -= 1;
    }
    if (held.right) {
        x += 1;
    }
    if (held.up) {
        y += 1;
    }
    if (held.down) {
        y -= 1;
    }
    var len = Math.sqrt(x * x + y * y);
    if (len > 1) {
        x /= len;
        y /= len;
    }
    return { nx: x, ny: y };
}

/*
 * Merge every JSON object found in linkctl's stdout into a flat update.
 *
 * A diagonal tick runs two linkctl calls, and each reports only the axis it
 * changed, so the results have to be merged rather than replaced. Only keys
 * actually present with the right type are returned, which keeps a null from
 * an unrelated field from clobbering a known value.
 */
function absorb(stdout) {
    var update = {};
    var lines = String(stdout).split("\n");
    for (var i = 0; i < lines.length; i++) {
        var t = lines[i].trim();
        if (t.length === 0 || t.charAt(0) !== "{") {
            continue;
        }
        var o;
        try {
            o = JSON.parse(t);
        } catch (e) {
            continue;
        }
        if (typeof o.pan === "number") {
            update.pan = o.pan;
        }
        if (typeof o.tilt === "number") {
            update.tilt = o.tilt;
        }
        if (typeof o.zoom === "number") {
            update.zoom = o.zoom;
        }
        if (typeof o.tracking === "boolean") {
            update.tracking = o.tracking;
        }
        if (typeof o.state === "string") {
            update.state = o.state;
        }
    }
    return update;
}

// Pull a human-readable reason out of a failed linkctl run.
function errorMessage(stdout, stderr, exitCode) {
    var err = String(stderr || "").trim();
    try {
        var o = JSON.parse(String(stdout || "").trim());
        if (o && o.error) {
            return String(o.error);
        }
    } catch (e) {
        // not JSON, fall through to stderr
    }
    // 127 is the shell's "command not found", which here means the resolved
    // path has stopped being valid rather than anything about the camera.
    if (exitCode === 127) {
        return "linkctl could not be run. Set its full path in settings.";
    }
    if (err !== "") {
        return err;
    }
    // Exit codes that usually mean a pinned device node is stale. The Link's
    // /dev/videoN numbering moves between boots and replugs.
    if (exitCode === 3) {
        return "Camera not found. If a device is set in settings, clear it: "
            + "the node number changes between boots.";
    }
    if (exitCode === 4) {
        return "Several cameras found. Set the device in settings.";
    }
    if (exitCode === 6) {
        return "Permission denied. Add yourself to the 'video' group.";
    }
    return "linkctl exited " + exitCode;
}