Question

I’m creating a indicator applet using Python (pygtk) and I have a function that looks for a process. I need the item in the menu to be able to change while still running the script.

The item in the menu should kill or start a process, based on if it’s running or not.

Also, I want a text-only item to change while running, but this one should continually change to show the latest row from a text file.

How do I update the items in the code without restarting the script?

See code here: https://github.com/danielholm/BareShare/blob/master/bareshare.py

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

I got it working now.

You can use set_label() anytime, and since GTK main keeps looping over and over, you can use a code to update the label at a set time:

gobject.timeout_add(1000, self.funcion, None)

def function(self, widget)
  self.label.set_label(uploadM)