[Sorien]

is possible to display working dialog/notification from python addon?

[ronie]

i don't think that one (the busy dialog) is accessible for python.

perhaps you can use one of these instead:
DialogProgressBG
Dialog-notification

[Roman_V_M]

What about:

PHP Code:

xbmc.executebuiltin('ActivateWindow(10138)')
xbmc.executebuiltin('Dialog.Close(10138)') 


?

UPD: Just checked: it works.

[Sorien]

nice

[Lunatixz]

Code:

def show_busy_dialog():
    xbmc.executebuiltin('ActivateWindow(busydialog)')

def hide_busy_dialog():
    xbmc.executebuiltin('Dialog.Close(busydialog)')
    while xbmc.getCondVisibility('Window.IsActive(busydialog)'):
        time.sleep(.1)

[learningit]

Code:

def show_busy_dialog():
    xbmc.executebuiltin('ActivateWindow(busydialog)')

def hide_busy_dialog():
    xbmc.executebuiltin('Dialog.Close(busydialog)')
    while xbmc.getCondVisibility('Window.IsActive(busydialog)'):
        time.sleep(.1)

One small tweak - better to use xbmc.sleep(100), rather than time.sleep(.1) - my understanding is that we shouldn't be using time.sleep(), xbmc.sleep() allows for event processing, I could be wrong though.

[Roman_V_M]

One small tweak - better to use xbmc.sleep(100), rather than time.sleep(.1) - my understanding is that we shouldn't be using time.sleep(), xbmc.sleep() allows for event processing, I could be wrong though.

BTW, I've always wondered: does xbmc.sleep release Python GIL like time.sleep does?