Question

In my game I have two modules, island.py which loads the islands into my game and the second module is gui.py which handles the gui widgets before game starting. My problem is how to send the progress values from the island.py module to the progress bar created in gui.py module EDIT: also with an instance of the loading screen to access the progress bar in it and change its value.

In the module island.py

def __iter__(self):
        total = float(len(self.ground_map))
        import game.gui
        for i in self.get_coordinates():
            yield i
            global count
            count+=1
            progress = (count/total) * 100 
            game.gui.Gui.set_progress(progress)
        global count
        count = 0

In the module gui.py

def show_loading_screen(self):
    self._switch_current_widget('loadingscreen', center=True, show=True) # Creates the loading screen and its associated widgets, except the progress bar.

@staticmethod
def set_progress(progress):
    # Now I have the progress values, and it will be updated automatically... how can I pass it to the progress bar widget?
    # I need to create the progress bar widget here, but to do that I need to have the self instance to give me the current screen that I will create the progress bar for **AND HERE IS THE PROBLEM!!**
    def update_loading_screen(progress):
        """updates the widget."""
        **self,current**.findChild(name="progressBar")._set_progress(progress)
    update_loading_screen(progress)

How I can make this update_loading_screen function?

Answer 1

If I understand you right you are calling a static method and thus you have no access to self.
As I suppose that you have only one instance of your GUI class you can set

 GUI.self = self

in GUI.__init__

The static method then can access GUI.self.

For further reading look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singleton_pattern and http://code.activestate.com/recipes/52558-the-singleton-pattern-implemented-with-python/