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python - Why ttk Progressbar appears after process in Tkinter

I want to create a large text upon Tkinter menu command and provide visual support by a progress bar. Although the progress bar is meant to start before the subsequent time-consuming loop, the progress bar shows up only after the large text was created and displayed.

def menu_bar(self):
    self.create_menu.add_command(label="Create large file", 
    command=self.create_large_file)

def create_large_file(self):
    self.progressbar = ttk.Progressbar(self.master, mode='indeterminate')
    self.progressbar.pack()
    self.progressbar.start()
    self.text.delete(1.0, 'end')
    self.file_content = []

i = 0
while i < 2000000:
    line = lfd.input_string
    self.file_content.append(line + "
")
    i += 1

self.file_content = ''.join(self.file_content)
self.text.insert(1.0, self.file_content) 
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I think the problem is that the time-consuming loop is preventing the tkinter event loop, mainloop(), from running. In other words, when your work intensive function runs in the same thread as the GUI, it interferes with it by hogging the interpreter.

To prevent this you can use a secondary Thread to run your function and run the GUI and its progressbar in the main thread. To give you an idea of how to do this, here's a simple example I derived from code in another (unrelated) progressbar question to show how easily something like that can be done. Note: It's generally recommended that secondary threads not be given direct access to the main thread's tkinter objects.

from Tkinter import *
import ttk

import time
import threading

def foo():
    time.sleep(5) # simulate some work

def start_foo_thread(event):
    global foo_thread
    foo_thread = threading.Thread(target=foo)
    foo_thread.daemon = True
    progressbar.start()
    foo_thread.start()
    root.after(20, check_foo_thread)

def check_foo_thread():
    if foo_thread.is_alive():
        root.after(20, check_foo_thread)
    else:
        progressbar.stop()

root = Tk()
mainframe = ttk.Frame(root, padding="3 3 12 12")
mainframe.grid(column=0, row=0, sticky=(N, W, E, S))
mainframe.columnconfigure(0, weight=1)
mainframe.rowconfigure(0, weight=1)
progressbar = ttk.Progressbar(mainframe, mode='indeterminate')
progressbar.grid(column=1, row=100, sticky=W)

ttk.Button(mainframe, text="Check",
           command=lambda:start_foo_thread(None)).grid(column=1, row=200,
                                                       sticky=E)

for child in mainframe.winfo_children():
    child.grid_configure(padx=5, pady=5)
root.bind('<Return>', start_foo_thread)

root.mainloop()

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