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Kivy: Interactive Applications in Python

You're reading from  Kivy: Interactive Applications in Python

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783281596
Pages 138 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Roberto Ulloa Roberto Ulloa
Profile icon Roberto Ulloa

Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Kivy: Interactive Applications in Python
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. GUI Basics – Building an Interface 2. Graphics – The Canvas 3. Widget Events – Binding Actions 4. Improving the User Experience 5. Invaders Revenge – An Interactive Multitouch Game Index

Scheduling events with the Clock


You might have noticed that Animation has a duration parameter that establishes the time in which an animation should take place. A different time-related problem is the scheduling of a particular task to start at a certain time, or during an interval of n seconds. In these cases, we use the Clock class. Let's analyze the following code, fragment 2 of fleet.py:

189. # File name: fleet.py (Fragment 2)
190.   def schedule_events(self):
191.     Clock.schedule_interval(self.solo_attack, 2)
192.     Clock.schedule_once(self.shoot,random())
193. 
194.   def solo_attack(self, dt):
195.     if len(self.survivors):
196.       rint = randint(0, len(self.survivors) - 1)
197.       child = self.survivors[rint]
198.       child.invader.solo_attack()
199. 
200.   def shoot(self, dt):
201.     if len(self.survivors):
202.       rint = randint(0,len(self.survivors) - 1)
203.       child = self.survivors[rint]
204.       child.invader.drop_missile()
205.       Clock.schedule_once...
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