How To Set A Clicking Clock In A Pygame Window

#!/usr/bin/python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import pygame import sys import datetime import time class TextPicture(pygame.sprite.Sprite): def __init__(self, speed, location):

Solution 1:

You could do it by using pygame.time.set_timer() to make "tick events" be generated which cause the clock's image to be updated when encountered in the event processing loop.

To make implementing this easier, an update() method could be added to the DigitalClock class (which is what I renamed your generic TextPicture class) which only updates the image, but leaving the current location alone:

import datetime
import sys
import time
import pygame

classDigitalClock(pygame.sprite.Sprite):
    def__init__(self, speed, location):
        pygame.sprite.Sprite.__init__(self)
        self.speed = speed
        self.font = pygame.font.Font(None, 40)
        self.rect = pygame.Rect(location, (0, 0))  # placeholder
        self.update()

    defupdate(self):
        location = self.rect.left, self.rect.top  # save position
        time_text = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%H:%M:%S")
        self.image = self.font.render(time_text, 1, [0, 0, 0])
        self.rect = self.image.get_rect()
        self.rect.left, self.rect.top = location  # restore positiondefmove(self):
        self.rect = self.rect.move(self.speed)
        if (self.rect.left < 0or self.rect.left > screen.get_width()-self.image.get_width()):
            self.speed[0] = -self.speed[0]
        if (self.rect.top < 0or self.rect.top > screen.get_height()-self.image.get_height()):
            self.speed[1] = -self.speed[1]

Following that, you'd need to modify the processing to be something along these lines:

pygame.init()
framerate_clock = pygame.time.Clock()
screen = pygame.display.set_mode([640, 480])
my_digital_clock = DigitalClock([1, 1], [50, 50])
TICK_EVENT = pygame.USEREVENT + 1
pygame.time.set_timer(TICK_EVENT, 1000)  # periodically create TICK_EVENTwhile True:
    foreventin pygame.event.get():
        ifevent.type == TICK_EVENT:
            my_digital_clock.update()  # call new methodifevent.type == pygame.QUIT:
            pygame.quit()
            sys.exit()

    screen.fill([255, 255, 255])
    my_digital_clock.move()
    screen.blit(my_digital_clock.image, my_digital_clock.rect)

    framerate_clock.tick(60)  # limit framerate
    pygame.display.flip()

You could make it more beautiful by using a different font and color. Generally anything that made it look more realistic would be an improvement. It might be cool to make the colons between the digit characters blink on and off (using a similar technique).