Easy way to refresh generic_poll_text on mouse click?

[Sonic803]

Is there an easy way to refresh generic_poll_text on mouse click?

[elParaguayo]

It's slightly easier now if you've got the latest git version installed as we just merged a change that would help here.

Assuming you do, you could add the following callback

{"Button1": lazy.widget["genpolltext"].function(lambda w: w.update(w.poll())}

If you're not on latest git then try

def tick_widget():
    qtile.cmd_spawn("qtile cmd-obj -o widget genpolltext -f eval -a 'self.update(self.poll())'")

...

{"Button1": tick_widget}

If you have more than one GenPollText widget the you may need to name it (name=...) and use that name instead of "genpolltext".

[m-col]

qtile.cmd_spawn("qtile cmd-obj -o widget genpolltext -f eval -a 'self.update(self.poll())'")

Interesting - isn't there a better way, perhaps using the IPC server directly in Qtile?

[elParaguayo]

Well, you can do

qtile.widgets_map["genpolltext"].cmd_eval("self.update(self.poll())")

But that's not documented.

As for using the IPC server, that's what lazy is doing.

[m-col]

I guess you don't even need the eval and could use the methods directly. But yeah good point - while qtile._cmd_spawn is also undocumented it's the thing I expect is most commonly used.

[elParaguayo]

If you didn't use eval, it would need to be a bit longer:

w = qtile.widgets_map["genpolltext"]
w.update(w.poll())

Hmm. Maybe that's shorter...

cmd_spawn is undocumented but will be more obvious once we merge the command decorator PR as it will remove that confusion between qtile.cmd_spawn and lazy.spawn.

[m-col]

True that - it will be a great PR