ProgressBar

class ProgressBar(**properties: Any)

Superclasses: Widget, InitiallyUnowned, Object

Implemented Interfaces: Accessible, AccessibleRange, Buildable, ConstraintTarget, Orientable

Displays the progress of a long-running operation.

GtkProgressBar provides a visual clue that processing is underway. It 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 GtkProgressBar 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 set_fraction periodically to update the progress bar.

When an application has no accurate way of knowing the amount of work to do, it can use the GtkProgressBar in 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 pulse periodically to update the progress bar.

There is quite a bit of flexibility provided to control the appearance of the GtkProgressBar. Functions are provided to control the orientation of the bar, optional text can be displayed along with the bar, and the step size used in activity mode can be set.

CSS nodes

progressbar[.osd]
├── [text]
╰── trough[.empty][.full]
    ╰── progress[.pulse]

GtkProgressBar has a main CSS node with name progressbar and subnodes with names text and trough, of which the latter has a subnode named progress. The text subnode is only present if text is shown. The progress subnode has the style class .pulse when in activity mode. It gets the style classes .left, .right, .top or .bottom added when the progress ‘touches’ the corresponding end of the GtkProgressBar. The .osd class on the progressbar node is for use in overlays like the one Epiphany has for page loading progress.

Accessibility

GtkProgressBar uses the progress_bar role and sets the value_min, value_max and value_now properties to reflect the progress.

Constructors

class ProgressBar

classmethod new() → Widget

Creates a new GtkProgressBar.

Methods

class ProgressBar

get_ellipsize() → EllipsizeMode

Returns the ellipsizing position of the progress bar.

See set_ellipsize.

get_fraction() → float

Returns the current fraction of the task that’s been completed.

get_inverted() → bool

Returns whether the progress bar is inverted.

get_pulse_step() → float

Retrieves the pulse step.

See set_pulse_step.

get_show_text() → bool

Returns whether the GtkProgressBar shows text.

See set_show_text.

get_text() → str | None

Retrieves the text that is displayed with the progress bar.

The return value is a reference to the text, not a copy of it, so will become invalid if you change the text in the progress bar.

pulse() → None

Indicates that some progress has been made, but you don’t know how much.

Causes the progress bar to enter “activity mode,” where a block bounces back and forth. Each call to pulse causes the block to move by a little bit (the amount of movement per pulse is determined by set_pulse_step).

set_ellipsize(mode: EllipsizeMode) → None

Sets the mode used to ellipsize the text.

The text is ellipsized if there is not enough space to render the entire string.

Parameters:

mode – a PangoEllipsizeMode

set_fraction(fraction: float) → None

Causes the progress bar to “fill in” the given fraction of the bar.

The fraction should be between 0.0 and 1.0, inclusive.

Parameters:

fraction – fraction of the task that’s been completed

set_inverted(inverted: bool) → None

Sets whether the progress bar is inverted.

Progress bars normally grow from top to bottom or left to right. Inverted progress bars grow in the opposite direction.

Parameters:

inverted – True to invert the progress bar

set_pulse_step(fraction: float) → None

Sets the fraction of total progress bar length to move the bouncing block.

The bouncing block is moved when pulse is called.

Parameters:

fraction – fraction between 0.0 and 1.0

set_show_text(show_text: bool) → None

Sets whether the progress bar will show text next to the bar.

The shown text is either the value of the text property or, if that is None, the fraction value, as a percentage.

To make a progress bar that is styled and sized suitably for containing text (even if the actual text is blank), set show_text to True and text to the empty string (not None).

Parameters:

show_text – whether to show text

set_text(text: str | None = None) → None

Causes the given text to appear next to the progress bar.

If text is None and show_text is True, the current value of fraction will be displayed as a percentage.

If text is non-None and show_text is True, the text will be displayed. In this case, it will not display the progress percentage. If text is the empty string, the progress bar will still be styled and sized suitably for containing text, as long as show_text is True.

Parameters:

text – a UTF-8 string

Properties

class ProgressBar

props.ellipsize: EllipsizeMode

The preferred place to ellipsize the string.

The text will be ellipsized if the progress bar does not have enough room to display the entire string, specified as a PangoEllipsizeMode.

Note that setting this property to a value other than %PANGO_ELLIPSIZE_NONE has the side-effect that the progress bar requests only enough space to display the ellipsis (”…”). Another means to set a progress bar’s width is set_size_request.

props.fraction: float

The fraction of total work that has been completed.

props.inverted: bool

Invert the direction in which the progress bar grows.

props.pulse_step: float

The fraction of total progress to move the bounding block when pulsed.

props.show_text: bool

Sets whether the progress bar will show a text in addition to the bar itself.

The shown text is either the value of the text property or, if that is None, the fraction value, as a percentage.

To make a progress bar that is styled and sized suitably for showing text (even if the actual text is blank), set show_text to True and text to the empty string (not None).

props.text: str

Text to be displayed in the progress bar.