Hi, Have you ever found it frustrating to use widgets with initialized values, getting those values to survive through script reruns and noticed how sometimes you have to double click to get the value to stick? We all have! This seems to be a common issue amongst new Streamlit users, so I wrote a …

I would expect a double click needed in case 2. Say the widget is in sync: it has it’s initial value and is outputting its initial value. st.session_state.A2 = st.number_input( label="What is A2?", min_value=0, max_value=100, value=st.session_state.A2, key='num_A2' ) You click o…

Mini-tutorial: Initializing widget values and getting them to stick without double presses

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marduk February 5, 2023, 10:31am 2

Hi @asehmi ,

Thanks for putting this tutorial together, super appreciated.

Did you, the Streamlit team or anyone finally figure out why the 2nd case is happening? It is still happening with Streamlit 1.17.0

Widget value snaps back every second time when read/write to file

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Mini-tutorial: Initializing widget values and getting them to stick without double presses

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