I'm trying to build a clock with python and tkinter but I don't know how to make the tkinter UI update every second. Right now it shows the time on the UI but it doesn't updtade. I have tried to make a loop with .after but python gives the following error:
RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded while calling a Python object.
How do I fix this?
Code:
import datetime
from tkinter import *
from tkinter.ttk import *
class clock:
def __init__(self):
pass
def get_hour(self):
self.date_time = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%d-%m-%Y %H:%M:%S/%p")
self.date, self.time1 = self.date_time.split()
self.time2, self.time3 = self.time1.split('/')
self.hour, self.minutes, self.seconds = self.time2.split(':')
def format_hour(self):
if int(self.hour) > 12 and int(self.hour) < 24:
self.time = str(int(self.hour) - 12) + ':' + self.minutes + ':' + self.seconds + ' ' + self.time3
return self.time
else:
self.time = self.time2 + ' ' + self.time3
return self.time
def execute(self):
while True:
self.get_hour()
return self.format_hour()
class clock_ui:
def __init__(self, the_window):
self.the_window = the_window
self.the_window.title("Clock")
self.the_window.geometry('1300x550')
self.tabs()
self.update_ui()
# Adds the tabs for the user to select on the interface:
def tabs(self):
self.tabs_control = Notebook(self.the_window)
self.clock_tab = Frame(self.tabs_control)
self.alarm_tab = Frame(self.tabs_control)
self.stopwatch_tab = Frame(self.tabs_control)
self.timer_tab = Frame(self.tabs_control)
self.tabs_control.add(self.clock_tab, text="Clock")
self.tabs_control.add(self.alarm_tab, text="Alarm")
self.tabs_control.add(self.stopwatch_tab, text='Stopwatch')
self.tabs_control.add(self.timer_tab, text='Timer')
self.tabs_control.pack(expand = 1, fill ="both")
# Adds the looks on the clock tab:
self.time_label = Label(self.clock_tab, font = 'calibri 40 bold', foreground = 'black')
self.time_label.pack(anchor='center')
self.date_label = Label(self.clock_tab, font = 'calibri 40 bold', foreground = 'black')
self.date_label.pack(anchor='s')
def update_ui(self):
self.time_label.config(text = clock().execute())
# self.date_label.config(text= date)
# self.time_label.after(1000, self.update_ui())
app = Tk()
my_clock = clock_ui(app)
app.mainloop()
In line 59, you must declared variable. And line 60, then add string
to self.date_label.config
.
def update_ui(self):
string = self.time_label.config(text = clock().execute())
self.date_label.config(text=string)
self.time_label.after(1000, self.update_ui)
You will see second second pass continuously.
Result output: