[Tkinter-discuss] Best way to create a loading type bar or dot....

[Martin Franklin]

Alexnb wrote:
> This may be hard to explain using text, but you have all seen one. What I
> need to do is to create an object like a loading bar ( a bar like the little
> bar that comes up when you boot into xp or the circle that comes up when you
> boot into mac or on the tabs in firefox) or I would like a dot, that starts
> grey or red and goes to green once the action is completed. The action is
> getting something from the internet. But I am wondering what is the best way
> to go about doing this in Tkinter, I am thinking maybe a canvas thing? I
> have never used the canvas aspect but I am just wondering what is the best
> way to do such a thing? Oh and I forgot, but on the loading bar I don't care
> if it is timed right, I just want it to like go from empty to full, over and
> over again and stay full when the information is received. So I would love
> your input!


Google for busy bar, or progress bar indeterminate or something like 
that you'll find lots of examples one here :-

http://tkinter.unpythonic.net/wiki/BusyBar


Is one that I've used.

Cheers
Martin



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