Making a clock in kivy

Question

I\'m new to Kivy, and I\'m trying to get a better handle on Events, as well as a few basics of the framework.

For that purpose, can anyone provide the code for a sim

Answer 1

What about a simple graphical one:

from kivy.app import App
from kivy.uix.widget import Widget
from kivy.graphics import Color, Line
from kivy.uix.floatlayout import FloatLayout
from math import cos, sin, pi
from kivy.clock import Clock
from kivy.lang import Builder
from kivy.properties import NumericProperty

import datetime

kv = '''
#:import math math

[ClockNumber@Label]:
    text: str(ctx.i)
    pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.5+0.42*math.sin(math.pi/6*(ctx.i-12)), "center_y": 0.5+0.42*math.cos(math.pi/6*(ctx.i-12))}
    font_size: self.height/16

<MyClockWidget>:
    face: face
    ticks: ticks
    FloatLayout:
        id: face
        size_hint: None, None
        pos_hint: {"center_x":0.5, "center_y":0.5}
        size: 0.9*min(root.size), 0.9*min(root.size)
        canvas:
            Color:
                rgb: 0.1, 0.1, 0.1
            Ellipse:
                size: self.size     
                pos: self.pos
        ClockNumber:
            i: 1
        ClockNumber:
            i: 2
        ClockNumber:
            i: 3
        ClockNumber:
            i: 4
        ClockNumber:
            i: 5
        ClockNumber:
            i: 6
        ClockNumber:
            i: 7
        ClockNumber:
            i: 8
        ClockNumber:
            i: 9
        ClockNumber:
            i: 10
        ClockNumber:
            i: 11
        ClockNumber:
            i: 12
    Ticks:
        id: ticks
        r: min(root.size)*0.9/2
'''
Builder.load_string(kv)

class MyClockWidget(FloatLayout):
    pass

class Ticks(Widget):
    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
        super(Ticks, self).__init__(**kwargs)
        self.bind(pos=self.update_clock)
        self.bind(size=self.update_clock)

    def update_clock(self, *args):
        self.canvas.clear()
        with self.canvas:
            time = datetime.datetime.now()
            Color(0.2, 0.5, 0.2)
            Line(points=[self.center_x, self.center_y, self.center_x+0.8*self.r*sin(pi/30*time.second), self.center_y+0.8*self.r*cos(pi/30*time.second)], width=1, cap="round")
            Color(0.3, 0.6, 0.3)
            Line(points=[self.center_x, self.center_y, self.center_x+0.7*self.r*sin(pi/30*time.minute), self.center_y+0.7*self.r*cos(pi/30*time.minute)], width=2, cap="round")
            Color(0.4, 0.7, 0.4)
            th = time.hour*60 + time.minute
            Line(points=[self.center_x, self.center_y, self.center_x+0.5*self.r*sin(pi/360*th), self.center_y+0.5*self.r*cos(pi/360*th)], width=3, cap="round")

class MyClockApp(App):
    def build(self):
        clock = MyClockWidget()
        Clock.schedule_interval(clock.ticks.update_clock, 1)
        return clock

if __name__ == '__main__':
    MyClockApp().run()

EDIT: I updated code to 1.8.0 version, fixing problem with displaying labels

Answer 2

Here's an extremely simple clock:

from kivy.app import App
from kivy.uix.label import Label
from kivy.clock import Clock

import time

class IncrediblyCrudeClock(Label):
    def update(self, *args):
        self.text = time.asctime()

class TimeApp(App):
    def build(self):
        crudeclock = IncrediblyCrudeClock()
        Clock.schedule_interval(crudeclock.update, 1)
        return crudeclock

if __name__ == "__main__":
    TimeApp().run()