I'm writing a practice GUI application that helps manage Android apps by ADB.
But I've ran into an issue where the status bar won't update until the uninstall_package
function, that is called from tk.Menu
, has finished.
The first self.status_bar.text.set
isn't shown, but the last one is. I've tested replacing the terminal function with time.wait()
after the first self.status_bar.text.set
, but that didn't work.
I came across this related issue, but it hasn't helped resolve it. https://stackoverflow.com/a/32504779/6318164
This is the script. I've minimised it to only include the main parts related to the issue.
class App(tk.Tk):
def __init__(self):
super().__init__()
self.geometry('640x480')
self.menu_bar = MenuBar(self)
self.status_bar = StatusBar(self)
self.tab = Tab(self)
def uninstall_package(self):
if self.tab.get_selected_name() == 'Third Party':
# com.company.app
package = self.tab.third_party.get_selected_items()[0]
answer = messagebox.askyesno(
title='Confirm',
message='Uninstall package:\n{}'.format(package)
)
if not answer:
return
self.status_bar.text.set('Uninstalling {}...'.format(package))
# function halts until the terminal process has finished
process = terminal('adb uninstall {}'.format(package))
if process.stdout:
self.status_bar.text.set('Success')
else:
messagebox.showerror('An error occurred.')
# other functions...
class MenuBar(tk.Menu):
def __init__(self, master):
super().__init__(master)
action_menu = tk.Menu(self, tearoff=0)
action_menu.add_command(label='Uninstall Selected Package', command=master.uninstall_package)
self.add_cascade(label='Action', menu=action_menu)
master.config(menu=self)
class StatusBar(tk.Frame):
def __init__(self, master):
super().__init__(master)
self.text = tk.StringVar()
self.text.set('Ready')
label = tk.Label(self, anchor='w', bd=1, relief=tk.SUNKEN, textvariable=self.text)
label.pack(fill='x')
self.pack(side='bottom', fill='x')
Try this just after setting the status bar text:
tk.update_idletasks()