Question

How is it possible with GTK to set a menu item insensitive after clicked, but make it sensitive again, after something about 5 seconds.
If I do something like this, it doesn’t work (I have no idea why not)

self.shutdown_item.connect("activate",self.shutdown)
self.shutdown_item.connect("activate",self.sensitiveshutdown)


def sensitiveshutdown(self,widget):
    shutdown_item.set_sensitive(False)
    time.sleep(5)
    shutdown_item.set_sensitive(True)

doesn’t work. It freezes the gui for 5 seconds but the button stays sensitive.
Is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

So the way about as @unwind pointed out is a time-out (you need to import gobject:

self.shutdown_item.connect("activate",self.shutdown)
self.shutdown_item.connect("activate",self.sensitiveshutdown)


def sensitiveshutdown(self, widget):
    self.shutdown_item.set_sensitive(False)
    gobject.timeout_add(5000, self.reviveShutDown)

def reviveShutDown(self):
    self.shutdown_item.set_sensitive(True)
    return False