Re: best way to create a timer/alarm

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:42:53 -0300, Alexnb <al********@gmail.comescribió:

I am wondering what is the best way to create a timer, like an alarm,
once it
reaches a time, it triggers an event. I have a way of doing this but it
seems like it isn't good at all. If it helps at all I am using a Tkinter,
but that probably doesn't mean much.

Actually it *is* very important - such things are done in very different
ways on different GUI libraries.

The way I was doing it was using a
while loop, and just saying while current time is not = to trigger time,
do
nothing, and when it is, do event.

Doing so makes your application irresponsive (frozen) until the time
elapses.
Use the "after" method; see <http://effbot.org/tkinterbook/widget.htm>

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Gabriel Genellina