Ttk Indeterminate Progress Bar On Button Press

I am trying to create a progress bar that runs as long as my function is running to show the user that things are happening and not just frozen. My function (generate_reports) make

Solution 1:

Heh welcome to the fun world of event driven programming :). You can't use join here, the point of that function is to block until the thread is done and the whole point of using a thread is to avoid blocking the mainloop. You have 2 choices: either set up the GUI to constantly poll the thread to see if it's still running, or set up the thread to send a message back to the GUI when it's done. This latter option is probably the cleanest, and it's often done using tkinter's event mechanism.

from tkinter import *
from tkinter import ttk
import threading
import time

defgenerate_reports(start, end):
    print("provide a mcve next time!")
    time.sleep(5)

defrun_report(root, *args):
    generate_reports(*args)
    root.event_generate("<<PhishDoneEvent>>") # yes, this is using tkinter in a thread, but some tkinter methods are ok to use in threadsclassBillingApp:
  def__init__(self, root):
    self.mainframe = ttk.Frame(root, padding = '4 4 12 12')
    self.mainframe.grid(column = 0, row = 0, sticky = (N, W, E, S))
    ttk.Button(self.mainframe, text = "Generate Billing Reports", command = self.do_reports).grid(column = 2, row = 3, sticky = (W, E))
    root.bind("<<PhishDoneEvent>>", self.report_done)

  defdo_reports(self, *args):
    # note this makes a new widget with every click ... this is bad. Refactor to reuse the widget. 
    self.pbar = ttk.Progressbar(self.mainframe, orient = HORIZONTAL, mode = 'indeterminate')
    self.pbar.grid(row = 4, column = 3, sticky = (W, E))
    start, end = 4,5
    t1 = threading.Thread(target = run_report, args = [root, start, end])
    t1.start()
    self.pbar.start()

  defreport_done(self, event=None):
    self.pbar.stop()
    Label(self.mainframe, text="report done").grid(row = 4, column = 3)

root = Tk()
BillingApp(root)
root.mainloop()

Solution 2:

I see that you have accepted the answer above. However, I would post my answer since it is not based on threading, which I think is simpler and may be more suitable:

from tkinter import *
from tkinter.ttk import *
import os



root = Tk()

# I set the length and maximum as shown to demonstrate the process in the # proceeding function
progress = Progressbar(root, orient = HORIZONTAL,
            length = 200/5, maximum=200/5, mode = 'determinate')

# Function defmy_func():
    t=0
    r= 1/5for i inrange(200):
        print(i)
        t=t+r
        progress['value'] = t
        root.update_idletasks()
  

progress.pack()

# Button
Button(root, text = 'Start', command = bar).pack(pady = 10)


mainloop()