Update screen once per second

[uhm57]

Hi everyone!

I need to show a countdown clock on canvas for my application, so my target is to build an application which behaves as usual, but updates the screen at least once per second even if the user is inactive. Is there any "standard" way to do that?

[AJ____92]

e32 module

e32.ao_sleep(1) #sleeps one second


make a while loop and thats it

[bogdan.galiceanu]

Or you can use a timer (e32.Ao_timer) which, unlike e32.ao_sleep, doesn't block other operations.