Topic: Vanilla TextBox .set() • RoboFont

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March 24, 2014 at 15:29 #5819
Jeremie
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Hello,

I am using a TextBox in a FloatingWindow:
```
def __init__(self):
		self.w = FloatingWindow((200, 75))
		self.w.textBox = TextBox((10, 30, -10, 20), "test", sizeStyle = "small")
		self.w.button = Button((10, -20, -10, 15), "Go!", sizeStyle = "mini", callback=self.showProgress)
```
The Button here is used to start an action (self.defineGlyphsToMake), and I want the TextBox content text to be updated just before.
```
def showProgress(self, sender):
	    self.w.textBox.set("Checking UFO...")
	    glyphsToMake = self.defineGlyphsToMake(f, extrasL)
```
The strange thing is that the textBox content is updated only _after_ the self.defineGlyphsToMake is finished.
Is there something I am doing wrong or is it a flaw in Vanilla ?
March 24, 2014 at 15:40 #5820
frederik
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Cocoa is rather smart in updating views and this is a good example: it prevents the update while there is something else running.

You could force to update the view but maybe a better way is to use the defconAppKit base window and use the a progress from there.
```
from defconAppKit.windows.baseWindow import BaseWindowController
from vanilla import *

from time import sleep

class Test(BaseWindowController):
    
    def __init__(self):
        
        self.w = Window((200, 40))
        self.w.b = Button((10, 10, -10, 22), "Push", callback=self.buttonCallback)
        self.w.open()
        
    def buttonCallback(self, sender):
        progress = self.startProgress("Doing it...")
        
        for v in ["he", "I'm", "almost", "done"]:
            progress.update(v)
            sleep(0.5)
        
        progress.close()

Test()
```
good luck
March 24, 2014 at 15:54 #5821

Jeremie
Member

great thanks !
is there a doc for BaseWindowController ? the .startProgress for example?
I would like to use a determinate progress bar…

March 24, 2014 at 16:37 #5824

Jeremie
Member

OK I found my way reading the sources of defconAppKit:

https://github.com/typesupply/defconAppKit/blob/master/Lib/defconAppKit/windows/progressWindow.py

self.progress.setTickCount(len(extrasDict.keys()))
for i in extrasDict.keys():
self.progress.update()

thanks for your help Frederik :)

March 28, 2014 at 11:15 #5825
frederik
Keymaster
source code is the best documentation :)

otherwise use:
```
from defconAppKit.windows.baseWindow import BaseWindowController
from defconAppKit.windows.progressWindow import ProgressWindow

help(BaseWindowController)
help(ProgressWindow)
```
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