Vanilla set.text to TextBox

joanca

I know this is a vanilla question but probably it will be easy to answer by someone.
I want to set the text to a TextBox (for a progressbar, to follow what's going on) but I can't get it updated. Any help?

from vanilla import *
from time import sleep

class Test():

    def __init__ (self):
        self.w = Window((200, 100), 'a W')
        self.w.text = TextBox((10, 10, -10, -10), 'start')
        self.w.open()
        
        # set text
        self.counter = 0
        while self.counter < 10:
            print self.counter
            self.w.text.set(self.counter)
            sleep(1)
            self.counter += 2
        else:
            print 'finished counting'
            
Test()

frederik

can you use the defconAppKit progressWindow?

see http://code.typesupply.com/browser/packages/defconAppKit/trunk/Lib/defconAppKit/windows/progressWindow.py

Cocoa is build up rather smart so it checks when a view is been updated frequently before redrawing it on screen.

Although you can force a redraw:

self.w.text.getNSTextField().display()

after setting a string into the TextBox