How to Stop for a second and calculate a number from clicks in a second

Question

I am trying to make a click test "game" for my friends and I. However, I am a bit puzzled as for what to do next. Here's my code so far:

import os, sys, math, pygame, pygame.mixer, time
from pygame.locals import *

black = (0,0,0)
red = (255,0,0)
green = (0,255,0)
blue = (0,0,255)
white = (255,255,255)
click = 0
time = 0
timer = pygame.time.get_ticks()
run_me = True

screen_size = screen_Width, sceen_height = 600, 400
screen = pygame.display.set_mode(screen_size)
pygame.display.set_caption('click speed test')


Fps = 60
fps_clock = pygame.time.Clock()

while run_me:

    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.MOUSEBUTTONDOWN:
            time = timer + 1*1000
        if time = 1
            for event in pygame.event.get():
                if event.type == pygame.MOUSEBUTTONDOWN:
                    clicks + 1

I want to show the user how many clicks he managed to press in a second. How do I do that?

Thank you >.<

Answer 1

To print how many clicks were made, let's have a look at this amazing answer for how to display text on screen(Answer by: Bartlomiej Lewandowsk, Original answer: link)

You can create a surface with text on it. For this take a look at this short example:

pygame.font.init() # you have to call this at the start, 
                   # if you want to use this module.
myfont = pygame.font.SysFont('Comic Sans MS', 30)

This creates a new object on which you can call the render method.

textsurface = myfont.render('Some Text', False, (0, 0, 0))

This creates a new surface with text already drawn onto it. At the end you can just blit the text surface onto your main screen.

screen.blit(textsurface,(0,0)) 

Bear in mind, that everytime the text changes, you have to recreate the surface > again, to see the new text.

I've revised you're code, have a look, I'll explain below

import  sys, pygame
from pygame.locals import *

#colors
black = (0,0,0)
red = (255,0,0)
green = (0,255,0)
blue = (0,0,255)
white = (255,255,255)
#vars
clicks = 0
run_me = True
#init
pygame.init()
pygame.font.init()
#display init
screen_size = screen_Width, sceen_height = 600, 400
screen = pygame.display.set_mode(screen_size)
pygame.display.set_caption('click speed test')
myfont = pygame.font.SysFont('Comic Sans MS', 30)


Fps = 60
clock = pygame.time.Clock()
first_click = False
frst_time = 0
nxt_time = 0

while run_me:

    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == QUIT:
            quit()
            sys.exit()

        if event.type == pygame.MOUSEBUTTONDOWN:
            if first_click == False:
                frst_time = clock.tick_busy_loop() / 1000
                first_click = True
                clicks += 1
            elif(first_click == True):
                if nxt_time < 5:
                    clicks += 1
    if first_click == True and nxt_time < 5:
        nxt_time += clock.tick_busy_loop()/1000

    textsurface = myfont.render(str(clicks), False,black)
    textsurface2 = myfont.render(str(nxt_time), False, black)
    screen.fill(white)
    screen.blit(textsurface,(0,0))
    screen.blit(textsurface2,(0,100))

    pygame.display.update()

First, I made a variable named first_click to get the clock to start when the player made the first click. Remember that the first tick() gets you the time from the pygame.init() was called.

Second, nxt_time < 5: this statement makes the clicks count go up only when below 5(In you're case it would be 1)

Third, tick() only gets the interval time between each ticks. This doesn't add up the time. So, to get the time added up. I made the variable nxt_time. This variable holds the time value. The time from first click was made.

BTW: tick_busy_loop is more accurate than just tick. But it uses more CPU.

And last

1. Never leave out pygame.init()
2. Never leave out pygame.display.update()
3. Never leave out quit action

Answer 2

I'd use pygame.time.get_ticks to calculate the passed time since the first click (check out the comments).

import pygame as pg


pg.init()
screen = pg.display.set_mode((600, 400))
fps_clock = pg.time.Clock()
FPS = 60
GRAY = pg.Color('gray12')
WHITE = pg.Color('white')
FONT = pg.font.Font(None, 42)

clicks = 0
start_time = 0
passed_time = 0
run_me = True

while run_me:
    for event in pg.event.get():
        if event.type == pg.QUIT:
            run_me = False
        elif event.type == pg.MOUSEBUTTONDOWN:
            if event.button == 1:  # Left mouse button.
                # Start the timer if it's stopped.
                if start_time == 0:
                    start_time = pg.time.get_ticks()
                if passed_time < 1:  # Count the clicks.
                    clicks += 1
            # Press the right mouse button to reset the timer and clicks.
            elif event.button == 3:
                start_time = 0
                passed_time = 0
                clicks = 0

    if passed_time < 1 and start_time != 0:
        # Calculate the passed time. / 1000 to convert it to seconds.
        passed_time = (pg.time.get_ticks() - start_time) / 1000

    time_surface = FONT.render('Time: {}'.format(passed_time), True, WHITE)
    clicks_surface = FONT.render('Clicks: {}'.format(clicks), True, WHITE)

    screen.fill(GRAY)
    screen.blit(time_surface, (30, 30))
    screen.blit(clicks_surface, (30, 70))
    pg.display.flip()
    fps_clock.tick(FPS)

pg.quit()