New demo - Desktop Widget that counts days since some date. Use it as a motivational tool

DemoPrograms/Demo_Desktop_Widget_Days_Counter.py

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+import PySimpleGUI as sg
+import sys
+import datetime
+
+"""
+    Another simple Desktop Widget using PySimpleGUI
+    The "Days Since _______" Widget
+    
+    This widget counts the number of days since some date of your choosing.  
+    Maybe you want to track the number of days since the start of the year.
+    Or perhaps when you got married.... or divorced.... or stopped some activity
+    Or started some activity.... you get the idea.  It tracks a time delta in days  
+
+    Copyright 2021 PySimpleGUI
+"""
+
+ALPHA = 0.9
+THEME = 'Dark green 3'
+# May add ability to change theme from the user interface.  For now forcing to constant
+sg.user_settings_set_entry('-theme-', THEME)
+
+GSIZE = (160, 160)
+UPDATE_FREQUENCY_MILLISECONDS = 1000*60*60      # update every hour
+
+def main(location):
+    title = sg.user_settings_get_entry('-title-', '')
+    # May add ability to change theme from the user interface.  For now use constant
+    theme = sg.user_settings_get_entry('-theme-', THEME)
+    sg.theme(theme)
+
+    font = 'Courier 70'
+    title_font = 'Courier 8'
+    refresh_font = 'Courier 8'
+
+    layout = [
+        [sg.Text(title, size=(20,1), font=title_font, justification='c', k='-TITLE-')],
+        [sg.Text(size=(3,1), font=font, k='-T-', justification='c')],
+        [sg.pin(sg.Text(size=(15,2), font=refresh_font, k='-REFRESHED-', justification='c'))],
+    ]
+
+    window = sg.Window('Day Number', layout, location=location, no_titlebar=True, grab_anywhere=True, margins=(0, 0), element_justification='c', element_padding=(0, 0), alpha_channel=ALPHA, finalize=True, right_click_menu=[[''], ['Choose Date', 'Choose Title', 'Edit Me', 'Refresh', 'Show Refresh', 'Hide Refresh', 'Exit']])
+
+    saved_date = sg.user_settings_get_entry('-start date-', (1,1,2021))
+    start_date = datetime.datetime(saved_date[2], saved_date[0], saved_date[1])
+    window['-REFRESHED-'].update(visible=sg.user_settings_get_entry('-show refresh-', True))
+
+    while True:             # Event Loop
+        # First update the status information
+        now = datetime.datetime.now()
+        delta =now-start_date
+        window['-T-'].update(f'{delta.days}')
+
+        # for debugging show the last update date time
+        date_time = now.strftime("%m/%d/%Y\n%I:%M:%S %p")
+        window['-REFRESHED-'].update(f'{date_time}')
+
+        # -------------- Start of normal event loop --------------
+        event, values = window.read(timeout=UPDATE_FREQUENCY_MILLISECONDS)
+        if event == sg.WIN_CLOSED or event == 'Exit':
+            break
+        if event == 'Edit Me':
+            sg.execute_editor(__file__)
+        elif event == 'Choose Date':
+            new_start = sg.popup_get_date()
+            if new_start is not None:
+                start_date = datetime.datetime(new_start[2], new_start[0], new_start[1])
+                sg.user_settings_set_entry('-start date-', new_start)
+        elif event == 'Choose Title':
+            new_title = sg.popup_get_text('Choose a title for your date')
+            if new_title is not None:
+                window['-TITLE-'].update(new_title)
+                sg.user_settings_set_entry('-title-', new_title)
+        elif event == 'Show Refresh':
+            window['-REFRESHED-'].update(visible=True)
+            sg.user_settings_set_entry('-show refresh-', True)
+        elif event == 'Hide Refresh':
+            window['-REFRESHED-'].update(visible=False)
+            sg.user_settings_set_entry('-show refresh-', False)
+
+    window.close()
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    # To start the window at a specific location, get this location on the command line
+    # The location should be in form x,y with no spaces
+    if len(sys.argv) > 1:
+        location = sys.argv[1].split(',')
+        location = (int(location[0]), int(location[1]))
+    else:
+        location = (None, None)
+    main(location)