I just started learning development for raspberry pi. I want to develop an application in TKinter which shows a count down from current date time to a fixed end date time. Where can I find sample source codes related to this. Also what are the other options which I can use to develop GUI based applications for raspberry pi.
Here ya go.
import Tkinter as TK
import datetime
class countdown:
def __init__(self, master, time): # time in mm/dd/yy hh:mm:ss format
self.master = master
self.frame = TK.Frame(self.master)
self.targetTime = datetime.datetime.strptime(time, "%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S")
self.timeRemainingLabel = TK.Label(self.frame)
self.startButton = TK.Button(self.frame, text="Start countdown", command=lambda:self.master.after(1000, self.update))
self.endTimeLabel = TK.Label(self.frame, text="Target time in mm/dd/yy hh:mm:ss format:")
self.endTimeEntry = TK.Entry(self.frame)
self.endTimeEntry.insert(0, time)
self.frame.grid()
self.timeRemainingLabel.grid(row=1,column=1, columnspan=3)
self.startButton.grid(row=2, column=1, rowspan=2)
self.endTimeLabel.grid(row=2, column=2)
self.endTimeEntry.grid(row=3, column=2)
def update(self):
remaining = self.targetTime-datetime.datetime.now()
daysRemaining = remaining.days
hoursRemaining = int(remaining.seconds) / 3600
minutesRemaining = int(remaining.seconds % 3600) / 60
secondsRemaining = int(remaining.seconds % 60)
self.timeRemainingLabel.config(text="Time remaining until {targetTime}:\n*** {days} days {hours} hrs {minutes} min {seconds} sec ***".format(targetTime=datetime.datetime.strptime(self.endTimeEntry.get(), "%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S"), days=daysRemaining, hours=hoursRemaining, minutes=minutesRemaining, seconds=secondsRemaining))
self.master.after(1000, self.update)
root = TK.Tk()
c = countdown(root, "08/31/13 01:01:01")
root.mainloop()
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