import PySimpleGUI as sg import time # form that doen't block # good for applications with an loop that polls hardware def Timer(): sg.ChangeLookAndFeel('Dark') sg.SetOptions(element_padding=(0,0)) # Make a form, but don't use context manager window = sg.Window('Running Timer', no_titlebar=True, auto_size_buttons=False) # Create a text element that will be updated with status information on the GUI itself # Create the rows form_rows = [[sg.Text('')], [sg.Text('', size=(8, 2), font=('Helvetica', 20), justification='center', key='text')], [sg.Button('Pause', key='-RUN-PAUSE-'), sg.Button('Reset'), sg.Exit(button_color=('white','firebrick4'))]] # Layout the rows of the form and perform a read. Indicate the form is non-blocking! window.Layout(form_rows) # # your program's main loop i = 0 paused = False start_time = int(round(time.time() * 100)) while (True): # This is the code that reads and updates your window button, values = window.read(timeout=0) window.FindElement('text').Update('{:02d}:{:02d}.{:02d}'.format((i // 100) // 60, (i // 100) % 60, i % 100)) if values is None or button == 'Exit': break if button == 'Reset': i=0 elif button == '-RUN-PAUSE-': paused = not paused window['-RUN-PAUSE-'].Update('Run' if paused else 'Pause') if not paused: i += 1 # Broke out of main loop. Close the window. window.close() Timer()