11. ProgressBar

The Gtk.ProgressBar is typically used to display the progress of a long running operation. It provides a visual clue that processing is underway. The Gtk.ProgressBar can be used in two different modes: percentage mode and activity mode.

When an application can determine how much work needs to take place (e.g. read a fixed number of bytes from a file) and can monitor its progress, it can use the Gtk.ProgressBar in percentage mode and the user sees a growing bar indicating the percentage of the work that has been completed. In this mode, the application is required to call Gtk.ProgressBar.set_fraction() periodically to update the progress bar, passing a float between 0 and 1 to provide the new percentage value.

When an application has no accurate way of knowing the amount of work to do, it can use activity mode, which shows activity by a block moving back and forth within the progress area. In this mode, the application is required to call Gtk.ProgressBar.pulse() periodically to update the progress bar. You can also choose the step size, with the Gtk.ProgressBar.set_pulse_step() method.

By default, Gtk.ProgressBar is horizontal and left-to-right, but you can change it to a vertical progress bar by using the Gtk.ProgressBar.set_orientation() method. Changing the direction the progress bar grows can be done using Gtk.ProgressBar.set_inverted(). Gtk.ProgressBar can also contain text which can be set by calling Gtk.ProgressBar.set_text() and Gtk.ProgressBar.set_show_text().

11.1. Example

_images/progressbar_example.png
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import gi

gi.require_version("Gtk", "3.0")
from gi.repository import Gtk, GLib


class ProgressBarWindow(Gtk.Window):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__(title="ProgressBar Demo")
        self.set_border_width(10)

        vbox = Gtk.Box(orientation=Gtk.Orientation.VERTICAL, spacing=6)
        self.add(vbox)

        self.progressbar = Gtk.ProgressBar()
        vbox.pack_start(self.progressbar, True, True, 0)

        button = Gtk.CheckButton(label="Show text")
        button.connect("toggled", self.on_show_text_toggled)
        vbox.pack_start(button, True, True, 0)

        button = Gtk.CheckButton(label="Activity mode")
        button.connect("toggled", self.on_activity_mode_toggled)
        vbox.pack_start(button, True, True, 0)

        button = Gtk.CheckButton(label="Right to Left")
        button.connect("toggled", self.on_right_to_left_toggled)
        vbox.pack_start(button, True, True, 0)

        self.timeout_id = GLib.timeout_add(50, self.on_timeout, None)
        self.activity_mode = False

    def on_show_text_toggled(self, button):
        show_text = button.get_active()
        if show_text:
            text = "some text"
        else:
            text = None
        self.progressbar.set_text(text)
        self.progressbar.set_show_text(show_text)

    def on_activity_mode_toggled(self, button):
        self.activity_mode = button.get_active()
        if self.activity_mode:
            self.progressbar.pulse()
        else:
            self.progressbar.set_fraction(0.0)

    def on_right_to_left_toggled(self, button):
        value = button.get_active()
        self.progressbar.set_inverted(value)

    def on_timeout(self, user_data):
        """
        Update value on the progress bar
        """
        if self.activity_mode:
            self.progressbar.pulse()
        else:
            new_value = self.progressbar.get_fraction() + 0.01

            if new_value > 1:
                new_value = 0

            self.progressbar.set_fraction(new_value)

        # As this is a timeout function, return True so that it
        # continues to get called
        return True


win = ProgressBarWindow()
win.connect("destroy", Gtk.main_quit)
win.show_all()
Gtk.main()