11. Spinner

The Gtk.Spinner displays an icon-size spinning animation. It is often used as an alternative to a GtkProgressBar for displaying indefinite activity, instead of actual progress.

To start the animation, use Gtk.Spinner.start(), to stop it use Gtk.Spinner.stop().

11.1. Example

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import gi
gi.require_version('Gtk', '3.0')
from gi.repository import Gtk

class SpinnerAnimation(Gtk.Window):

    def __init__(self):

        Gtk.Window.__init__(self, title="Spinner")
        self.set_border_width(3)
        self.connect("destroy", Gtk.main_quit)

        self.button = Gtk.ToggleButton("Start Spinning")
        self.button.connect("toggled", self.on_button_toggled)
        self.button.set_active(False)

        self.spinner = Gtk.Spinner()

        self.table = Gtk.Table(3, 2, True)
        self.table.attach(self.button, 0, 2, 0, 1)
        self.table.attach(self.spinner, 0, 2, 2, 3)

        self.add(self.table)
        self.show_all()

    def on_button_toggled(self, button):

        if button.get_active():
            self.spinner.start()
            self.button.set_label("Stop Spinning")

        else:
            self.spinner.stop()
            self.button.set_label("Start Spinning")


myspinner = SpinnerAnimation()

Gtk.main()