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In [1]:
from IPython.html import widgets # Widget definitions
from IPython.display import display # Used to display widgets in the notebook

Traitlet Events

The widget properties are IPython traitlets. Traitlets are eventful. To handle property value changes, the on_trait_change method of the widget can be used to register an event handling callback. The doc string for on_trait_change can be seen below. Both the name and remove properties are optional.

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print(widgets.Widget.on_trait_change.__doc__)

Setup a handler to be called when a trait changes.

        This is used to setup dynamic notifications of trait changes.

        Static handlers can be created by creating methods on a HasTraits
        subclass with the naming convention '_[traitname]_changed'.  Thus,
        to create static handler for the trait 'a', create the method
        _a_changed(self, name, old, new) (fewer arguments can be used, see
        below).

        Parameters
        ----------
        handler : callable
            A callable that is called when a trait changes.  Its
            signature can be handler(), handler(name), handler(name, new)
            or handler(name, old, new).
        name : list, str, None
            If None, the handler will apply to all traits.  If a list
            of str, handler will apply to all names in the list.  If a
            str, the handler will apply just to that name.
        remove : bool
            If False (the default), then install the handler.  If True
            then unintall it.

Mentioned in the doc string, the callback registered can have 4 possible signatures:

  • callback()
  • callback(trait_name)
  • callback(trait_name, new_value)
  • callback(trait_name, old_value, new_value)

An example of how to output an IntRangeWiget's value as it is changed can be seen below.

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intrange = widgets.IntRangeWidget()
display(intrange)

def on_value_change(name, value):
    print value

intrange.on_trait_change(on_value_change, 'value')

Specialized Events

Button On Click Event

The ButtonWidget is a special widget, like the ContainerWidget and MulticontainerWidget, that isn't used to represent a data type. Instead the button widget is used to handle mouse clicks. The on_click method of the ButtonWidget can be used to register a click even handler. The doc string of the on_click can be seen below.

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print(widgets.ButtonWidget.on_click.__doc__)

Register a callback to execute when the button is clicked.  The
        callback can either accept no parameters or one sender parameter:
        - callback()
        - callback(sender)
        If the callback has a sender parameter, the ButtonWidget instance that
        called the callback will be passed into the method as the sender.

        Parameters
        ----------
        remove : bool (optional)
            Set to true to remove the callback from the list of callbacks.

Button clicks are tracked by the clicks property of the button widget. By using the on_click method and the clicks property, a button that outputs how many times it has been clicked is shown below.

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button = widgets.ButtonWidget(description="Click Me!")
display(button)

def on_button_clicked(sender):
    print("Button clicked %d times." % sender.clicks)

button.on_click(on_button_clicked)

Button clicked 1 times.

Button clicked 2 times.

Button clicked 3 times.

Event handlers can also be used to create widgets. In the example below, clicking a button spawns another button with a description equal to how many times the parent button had been clicked at the time.

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def show_button(sender=None):
    button = widgets.ButtonWidget()
    button.description = "%d" % (sender.clicks if sender is not None else 0)
    display(button)
    button.on_click(show_button)
show_button()