OK, I been using guizero for a couple of days but I found a problem that has been perplexing me. Here a simplified version of the code.
from guizero import App, Text, PushButton, Picture, Drawing, TextBox
app = App("Testing")
def test():
global testing
print(testing)
button = PushButton(app,test, text = "press to test")
button.bg = "red"
button.text_size= 35
tittle = Text(app, "Testing input here")
testing = TextBox(app, text= "" )
app.display()
No matter what the users input into the Textbox, it is always print:
[TextBox] object with text ""
I tried putting testing into an argument in the function test, it comes up with the same thing.
[TextBox] object with text ""
If I don't make an argument in the function or global testing, it makes the same thing, and if I make the textbox before the button, I have the same problem.
Can anyone find a way to work around the problem or to fix this, I'm new to guizero so I have little to an idea what I'm doing
If you want to print the contents of the Text widget then you need to do
def test():
global testing
print(testing.value)
This will get the value of the testing widget rather than the "repr" of the widget.
Seems like a bit of "bug" in guizero that the description text that is output doesn't update when the value of the widget is updated.
Issue has been accepted by the developer and a fix has been pushed to a development branch. https://github.com/lawsie/guizero/issues/392