Well, anyone's free to update the docs if they want. I'm just not sure I do
things the "correct" way to be comfortable to update the documentation
(although the worst that could happen is that the devs reject my updates!)
Following on from my previous message, I think the correct way to do it in
the future is as follows:
from libqtile import qtile
...
def change_text(*args): # Your function should still accept args as the
current version is passing the qtile object but this is being deprecated
qtile.widgets_map["textbox"].update("Updated Text")
This *should* be future proof!
On Saturday, 17 October 2020 at 20:46:04 UTC+1 rickroller wrote:
> 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. But can anyone please help?
>>>>>>>
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