I agree it's not particularly obvious. I haven't seen anything in the docs
about this.
I'm not sure the InteractiveCommandClient is the right way to do this (and
I think that "lazy" is actually just an instance of this).
If I bind this to a key:
lazy.widget["textbox"].update("xyz")
it works.
However, if I put it in a callback function it doesn't.
I'll have a play around and see if I can figure it out (or someone more
experienced can reply before then!).
On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 at 17:47, rickroller <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> I actually did try it with and without the braces. Qtile reloads fine,
> vscode doesn''t show any errors but the textbox just doesn't update. Here
> is the snippet.
>
> def change_text():
> c=InteractiveCommandClient()
> c.widget['textbox'].update('replaced_text')
>
> screens=[
> Screen(
> bottom=bar.Bar(widget.TextBox('text', mouse_callbacks={'Button1' :
> change_text}
> )
>
> It just doesn't change on mouse click. What are the other ways to access
> widgets and update them in config.py?
>
>
> On Saturday, October 17, 2020 at 9:46:24 PM UTC+5:30 elParaguayo wrote:
>
>> I've never used the InteractiveCommandClient but I would think you need
>> to create an instance of it first before trying to update the widget i.e.
>>
>> from libqtile.command_client import InteractiveCommandClient
>> c=InteractiveCommandClient()
>> c.widget['textbox'].update('xyz')
>>
>> Note the "()" at the end of the second line.
>>
>> If it doesn't work, what error messages do you get?
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 at 14:05, rickroller <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I wanted to update the TextBox widget every 5 minutes through the output
>>> of a script. I tried
>>>
>>> from libqtile.command_client import InteractiveCommandClient
>>> c=InteractiveCommandClient
>>> c.widget['textbox'].update('xyz')
>>>
>>> For people without more than a basic knowledge of python, its very tough
>>> to understand the basic skeleton of how this works. I know, its on me. But
>>> can anyone please help?
>>>
>>>
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