Panel interact with throttled values

Panel
1

Hi.

I was wondering if there were a build-in way to use pn.interact with a widgets value_throttled (if it the widget type has it) instead of value. Right now i´m using my own function, which works for most cases.

def interact_throttled(func, **kwargs):
    widgets = pn.interact(lambda **kwargs: None, **kwargs)[0]
    
    kwargs_throttled = {}
    for k, w in zip(kwargs, widgets):
        if isinstance(w, pn.widgets.DiscreteSlider):
            kwargs_throttled[k] = w.param.value

        elif hasattr(w, "value_throttled"):
            if w.value_throttled is None:
                w.value_throttled = w.value
            else:
                w.value = w.value_throttled

            kwargs_throttled[k] = w.param.value_throttled

        else:
            kwargs_throttled[k] = w.param.value

    return pn.Column(widgets, pn.depends(**kwargs_throttled)(func))
2

Only way to do this right now is to provide explicit widget instances to pn.interact. I’d be happy to entertain a feature request that lets you toggle it though.

3

I’m looking at it right now. When you say toggle it through, do you mean e.g. pn.interact(func, x=x, throttled=True) or a seperate function like pn.interact_throttle(func, x=x).

I will properly need some help with how to do a feature request, because I have very little experience with Github.

4

Both are options and we can discuss on the issue. Just go here click on Feature request and then describe the problem and the two solutions you just suggested.

5

I have done this in https://github.com/holoviz/panel/issues/1259.

If I have a working code example of the feature request, what is the best practice to share/show it in the feature request?

6

Just paste the code you used to achieve it.