cycle between widgets on mouse click.

[Sydiepus]

I want to switch from the clock widget that displays time to another clock widget that displays date with a mouse click similar to widgetBox.
I tried the following solution but the time and date does not update automatically i have to restart qtile in order for it to update.

widget.WidgetBox(text_closed="  " + str(widget.Clock(format='%I:%M %p').poll()) + "  ",
                 background=colors[1],
                 text_open="  " + str(widget.Clock(format='%m-%d %a').poll()) + " "),

maybe a new widget that would have this functionality would be a nice enhancement.

[elParaguayo]

You don't need the WidgetBox for this. A mouse_callback should be ok. Something like this:

from libqtile import qtile

def toggle_clock():
    time_format = '%I:%M %p'
    date_format = '%m-%d %a'

    # Get the clock widget
    clock = qtile.widgets_map["clock"]

    # Look for an attribute called "_toggled" which we'll use to track the state
    if getattr(clock, "_toggled", False):
        # if it's not "toggled" then change to the date format and set the flag
        clock.format = date_format
        clock._toggled = True
    else:
        # otherwise, change back to the time format
        clock.format = time_format
        clock._toggled = False

    # This may change the widget length so we should redraw the bar
    clock.bar.draw()

Then, you define your widget like this:

widget.Clock(format='%I:%M %p', mouse_callbacks={"Button1": toggle_clock})

It's untested so there may be some silly mistakes in here but hopefully you get the idea.

[Sydiepus]

hello sorry for the late response.
i got it to work with your example, I'm not sure why but adding a not before the getattr() made it work.

if not getattr(clock, "_toggled", False):
        # if it's not "toggled" then change to the date format and set the flag
        clock.format = date_format
        clock._toggled = True

it's not as responsive as WidgetBox but it does the job thank you.

[elParaguayo]

Missing the not was me being silly.

As for being responsive, I suspect that's just because the text isn't refreshing until the widget ticks. Try adding clock.tick() before the last draw() line.

[Sydiepus]

thank you so much the clock.tick() did the trick.
for anyone in the future looking to do the same thing that's the fully working example:

def toggle_clock():
    time_format = '%I:%M %p'
    date_format = '%m-%d %a'

    # Get the clock widget
    clock = qtile.widgets_map["clock"]

    # Look for an attribute called "_toggled" which we'll use to track the state
    if not getattr(clock, "_toggled", False):
        # if it's not "toggled" then change to the date format and set the flag
        clock.format = date_format
        clock._toggled = True
    else:
        # otherwise, change back to the time format
        clock.format = time_format
        clock._toggled = False
    clock.tick()
    # This may change the widget length so we should redraw the bar
    clock.bar.draw()

then use the widget with mouse_callback.

widget.Clock(format='%I:%M %p', mouse_callbacks={"Button1": toggle_clock}),