Thanks man! I didn't know that a qtile object is passed during mouse callbacks. That works.
I wish there was a discord server or subreddit around qtile. Because while the documentation is really good. But for people who want to configure it a bit more, a community is a must. Otherwise people will have to scour through source code for minor issues everytime. Making it tough for noobs like me. Even inside the qshell, its tough to understand how to manipulate the objects after navigating to it. There is little explanation in the docs about that. On Saturday, October 17, 2020 at 11:47:23 PM UTC+5:30 elParaguayo wrote: > Sorry for all the messages. > > Having looked at the source on github, I don't know if this is a long term > solution as the button_press function no longer seems to pass the qtile > object. According to the commit > <https://github.com/qtile/qtile/commit/55f92b22b346ccd8a4c3e1867080bc82dbcaf33b#diff-932dbeefdf2b3d64837a8571334e72328fd8580e50c453de2c5652ade6e2d3b6> > > the correct way to access the qtile object is to import "libqtile.qtile". > > On Saturday, 17 October 2020 at 19:09:59 UTC+1 elParaguayo wrote: > >> 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. 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