[Tutor] How to enable pausing my stop_watch.py ? (original) (raw)

Dick Moores rdm at rcblue.com
Thu Jul 8 10:16:33 CEST 2004

Alan Gauld wrote at 12:04 7/7/2004:

> I would like to enable pausing and then resuming stopwatch.py. For > example, say I've set it to beep after 30 minutes. I start it, but then > discontinue the activity I'm timing. I want to pause the stopwatch by > pressing a key and then resume later by pressing (another?) key, just as > I could do with a real stopwatch. Is this possible?

Yes, you might want to look at the getch() function. Windows has it in msvcrt module Linux in the curses module An example in my event driven programming topic in my tutor

Here's that page without the frame: http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/tutevent.htm

I'm afraid I don't understand enough to know where to put this line: self.txtBox.bind("", self.doKeyEvent)

Could you please do a copy and paste and shoot back the whole script so I can see what it does?

And thanks VERY much for your other detailed comments and suggestions.

Dick Moores

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