Search icon CANCEL
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Your Cart (0 item)
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook

You're reading from   Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook Over 100 recipes to fully leverage the features of the standard library in Python

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788830829
Length 366 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Alessandro Molina Alessandro Molina
Author Profile Icon Alessandro Molina
Alessandro Molina
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Containers and Data Structures 2. Text Management FREE CHAPTER 3. Command Line 4. Filesystem and Directories 5. Date and Time 6. Read/Write Data 7. Algorithms 8. Cryptography 9. Concurrency 10. Networking 11. Web Development 12. Multimedia 13. Graphical User Interfaces 14. Development Tools 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

ProgressBar dialog

When doing a long-running operation, the most frequent way to inform a user of progress is through a progress bar.

While running an operation in a thread, we can update a progress bar to show that the operation is moving forward and give the user a hint about the time it might take to complete the work:

How to do it...

The simpledialog.SimpleDialog widget is used to create simple dialogs with some text and buttons. We are going to leverage it to display a progress bar instead of the buttons:

import tkinter
from tkinter import simpledialog
from tkinter import ttk

from queue import Queue

class ProgressDialog(simpledialog.SimpleDialog):
    def __init__(self, master, text='', title=None, class_...
lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime
Banner background image