The purpose of this widget is to reassure the user that something is happening. It can operate in one of two modes:
In determinate
mode, the widget shows an
indicator that moves from beginning to end under program
control.
In indeterminate
mode, the widget is animated
so the user will believe that something is in progress.
In this mode, the indicator bounces back and forth between
the ends of the widget.
In either mode, the current position of the indicator has a
numeric value. You can specify a maximum
value,
and you can set the indicator value directly. You may also
specify that the indicator value moves a given amount every time
a given time interval passes.
To create a new ttk.Progressbar
widget as
the child of a given
widget:
parent
w
= ttk.Progressbar(parent
,option
=value
, ...)
The options for this constructor are given in Table 54, “ttk.Progressbar
options”.
Table 54. ttk.Progressbar
options
class_
| The widget class name. This may be specified when the widget is created, but cannot be changed later. For an explanation of widget classes, see Section 27, “Standardizing appearance”. |
cursor
| The cursor that will appear when the mouse is over the checkbutton; see Section 5.8, “Cursors”. |
length
| The size of the widget along its long axis as a dimension. |
maximum
| The maximum value of the indicator; default is 100. |
mode
|
If your program cannot accurately depict the relative
progress that this widget is supposed to display, use
If your program has some measure of relative progress,
use |
orient
|
This options specifies the orientation: use orient=tk.HORIZONTAL or orient=tk.VERTICAL .
|
style
| The style to be used in rendering this widget; see Section 49, “Using and customizing ttk styles”. |
takefocus
|
By default, a ttk.Progressbar will
not be included in focus traversal; see Section 53, “Focus: routing keyboard input”. To add the widget to focus
traversal, use takefocus=True .
|
variable
| Use this option to link a control variable to the widget so that you can get or set the current value of the indicator. |
Methods on a ttk.Progressbar
include
those described in Section 46, “Methods common to all ttk widgets” plus:
.start([interval
])
Start moving the indicator every
milliseconds; the default
is 50ms. Each time, the indicator is moved as if you
called the interval
.step()
method.
.step([delta
])
This method increases the indicator value by
; the default
increment is 1.0. In determinate mode, the indicator will
never exceed the value of the delta
maximum
option. In indeterminate mode, the indicator will reverse
direction and count down once it reaches the maximum
value.
.stop()
This method stops the automatic progress that was started
by calling the .start()
method.