OK - had some success.
It looks like the main qtile object has a list of the active widgets which
we need to access. It also looks like that running the callback passes the
qtile object as an argument. As a result, your callback function could look
like this:
def change_text(qtile):
qtile.widgets_map["textbox"].update("Updated Text")
On Saturday, 17 October 2020 at 19:04:51 UTC+1 elParaguayo wrote:
> 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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