How to control QProgressBar with Signal

Question

Pushing the button starts 100 rounds cycle. With QLabel.setText() we update self.label from inside of scope of clicked() function.

Aside from updating self.label we would like to update the progressbar as well. But since progressbar is a local variable we can't update it from inside of onClick() function.

import time

class ProgressBar(QtGui.QProgressBar):
    def __init__(self, parent=None, total=20):
        super(ProgressBar, self).__init__(parent=parent)

        self.setMinimum(1)
        self.setMaximum(105)        
        self.setTextVisible(True) 

    def set_to_value(self, value):
        self.setValue(value)
        QtGui.qApp.processEvents()

    def closeEvent(self, event):
        self._active=False


class Dialog(QtGui.QDialog):
    def __init__(self):
        super(QtGui.QDialog,self).__init__()

        layout = QtGui.QVBoxLayout()
        self.setLayout(layout)
        self.label = QtGui.QLabel('idle...')
        layout.addWidget(self.label)

        progressbar = ProgressBar(self)
        layout.addWidget(progressbar) 

        button = QtGui.QPushButton('Process')
        button.clicked.connect(self.onClick)
        layout.addWidget(button) 

    def onClick(self):
        for i in range(101):
            message = '...processing %s of 100'%i
            self.label.setText(message)
            QtGui.qApp.processEvents()
            time.sleep(1)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    app = QtGui.QApplication([])
    dialog = Dialog()
    dialog.resize(300, 100)
    dialog.show()
    app.exec_()

Answer 1

Declare the progress bar as:

self.progressbar = ProgressBar(self)