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  • May 22, 2015 at 13:13 #6158

    Roberto Arista
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    Hi Frederik, Hi RoboFont users,
    I am working on a progress bar window to use inside an extension for processes that requires more than a bunch of seconds to be accomplished.

    I’d like to have in this window some indicators more than just the progress bar, like percentage, process description, time counter and so on.

    So, this is the first version of the progress bar that I wrote:
    https://gist.github.com/roberto-arista/e2f82669cff09c64960a

    But if you run it, you can easily notice that percentage and time counter do not update.
    At least not in my Robofont or Drawbot installations.

    Instead, if I hide and show the window each cycle of the for loop, the two textBox objects are updated:
    https://gist.github.com/roberto-arista/ee737aa745d776f84a22

    What’s happening here?
    Am I doing something wrong?

    Thanks

    May 22, 2015 at 14:14 #6159

    frederik
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    Due to optimisations a text will not update directly cause it is receiving lots of updates in a short time.

    You will have to force the text view to update

    see https://github.com/typesupply/defconAppKit/blob/master/Lib/defconAppKit/windows/progressWindow.py#L27-L31

    instead of using the private _nsObject I would encourage you to use getNSTextField()

    good luck

    May 23, 2015 at 08:20 #6160

    Roberto Arista
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    It works!
    Thanks :)

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