Hello I would like to create a countdown timer within a subroutine which is then displayed on the canvas. I'm not entirely sure of where to begin I've done some research on to it and was able to make one with the time.sleep(x) function but that method freezes the entire program which isn't what I'm after. I also looked up the other questions on here about a timer and tried to incorporate them into my program but I wasn't able to have any success yet.
TLDR; I want to create a countdown timer that counts down from 60 seconds and is displayed on a canvas and then have it do something when the timer reaches 0.
Is anyone able to point me in the right direction?
Thanks in advance.
EDIT: With the suggestions provided I tried to put them into the program without much luck.
Not sure if there is a major error in this code or if it's just a simple mistake. The error I get when I run it is below the code.
This is the part of the code that I want the timer in:
def main(): #First thing that loads when the program is executed.
global window
global tkinter
global canvas
global cdtimer
window = Tk()
cdtimer = 60
window.title("JailBreak Bob")
canvas = Canvas(width = 960, height = 540, bg = "white")
photo = PhotoImage(file="main.gif")
canvas.bind("<Button-1>", buttonclick_mainscreen)
canvas.pack(expand = YES, fill = BOTH)
canvas.create_image(1, 1, image = photo, anchor = NW)
window.mainloop()
def buttonclick_mainscreen(event):
pressed = ""
if event.x >18 and event.x <365 and event.y > 359 and event.y < 417 : pressed = 1
if event.x >18 and event.x <365 and event.y > 421 and event.y < 473 : pressed = 2
if event.x >18 and event.x <365 and event.y > 477 and event.y < 517 : pressed = 3
if pressed == 1 :
gamescreen()
if pressed == 2 :
helpscreen()
if pressed == 3 :
window.destroy()
def gamescreen():
photo = PhotoImage(file="gamescreen.gif")
canvas.bind("<Button-1>", buttonclick_gamescreen)
canvas.pack(expand = YES, fill = BOTH)
canvas.create_image(1, 1, image = photo, anchor = NW)
game1 = PhotoImage(file="1.gif")
canvas.create_image(30, 65, image = game1, anchor = NW)
e1 = Entry(canvas, width = 11)
e2 = Entry(canvas, width = 11)
canvas.create_window(390, 501, window=e1, anchor = NW)
canvas.create_window(551, 501, window=e2, anchor = NW)
canvas.after(1, gamescreen)
window.mainloop()
def cdtimer():
canvas.delete(ALL)
global cdtimer
cdtimer -= 1
canvas.create_text(510, 6, text=cdtimer, font="Ubuntu 29 bold", anchor = NW)
if cdtimer == 0:
scorescreen()
else:
canvas.after(1000, gamescreen)
main()
Error MSG:
Exception in Tkinter callback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.2/tkinter/__init__.py", line 1402, in __call__
return self.func(*args)
File "/usr/lib/python3.2/tkinter/__init__.py", line 490, in callit
func(*args)
File "/home/ppppwn3d/workspace/Python/JailBreakBob/JailBreakBob.py", line 50, in gamescreen
e1 = Entry(canvas, width = 11)
File "/usr/lib/python3.2/tkinter/__init__.py", line 2372, in __init__
Widget.__init__(self, master, 'entry', cnf, kw)
File "/usr/lib/python3.2/tkinter/__init__.py", line 1952, in __init__
cnf = _cnfmerge((cnf, kw))
File "/usr/lib/python3.2/tkinter/__init__.py", line 71, in _cnfmerge
if isinstance(cnfs, dict):
RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded while calling a Python object