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I am trying to a create a GUI that will display the current local time and give you a time output when you press the 'Lap' button. So far, I have create the clock and the buttons but I can't seem to figure out how to create an output box in the window that will display the timestamp when the button is pressed. I have very little programming experience so any help would be appreciated!

I have attached what I have so far:

import tkinter
import time
class Clock(tkinter.Label):
 def __init__(self, parent=None, seconds=True, colon=False):
 tkinter.Label.__init__(self, parent)

 self.display_seconds = seconds
 if self.display_seconds:
 self.time = time.strftime('%I:%M:%S')
 else:
 self.time = time.strftime('%I:%M %p').lstrip('0')
 self.display_time = self.time
 self.configure(text=self.display_time)

 if colon:
 self.blink_colon()

 self.after(200, self.tick)

 def tick(self):
 if self.display_seconds:
 new_time = time.strftime('%I:%M:%S')
 else:
 new_time = time.strftime('%I:%M %p').lstrip('0')
 if new_time != self.time:
 self.time = new_time
 self.display_time = self.time
 self.config(text=self.display_time)
 self.after(200, self.tick)

def timestamp():
 print(time.strftime("%I:%M:%S"))


if __name__ == "__main__":

 window = tkinter.Tk()
 frame = tkinter.Frame(window, width=800, height=800)
 frame.pack()

 tkinter.Label(frame, text="Current time: ").pack()

 clock1 = Clock(frame)
 clock1.pack()
 clock1.configure(bg='white', fg='black', font=("helvetica", 65))

 tkinter.Label(frame, text=" ").pack()

 b = tkinter.Button(frame, text='Quit', command=quit)
 b.pack(side=tkinter.RIGHT)
 b2 = tkinter.Button(frame, text='Lap', command=timestamp)
 b2.pack(side=tkinter.LEFT)

 window.mainloop()

I need help to create an output box in the window that will print the time when the 'Lap' button is pressed.

You can create a ScrolledText and insert into it using the insert("end", value) command whenever the button is pressed. Here is the augmented code.

import tkinter
import time
from tkinter import scrolledtext
class Clock(tkinter.Label):
 def __init__(self, parent=None, seconds=True, colon=False):
 tkinter.Label.__init__(self, parent)

 self.display_seconds = seconds
 if self.display_seconds:
 self.time = time.strftime('%I:%M:%S')
 else:
 self.time = time.strftime('%I:%M %p').lstrip('0')
 self.display_time = self.time
 self.configure(text=self.display_time)

 if colon:
 self.blink_colon()

 self.after(200, self.tick)

 def tick(self):
 if self.display_seconds:
 new_time = time.strftime('%I:%M:%S')
 else:
 new_time = time.strftime('%I:%M %p').lstrip('0')
 if new_time != self.time:
 self.time = new_time
 self.display_time = self.time
 self.config(text=self.display_time)
 self.after(200, self.tick)

def timestamp():
 print(time.strftime("%I:%M:%S"))


if __name__ == "__main__":

 window = tkinter.Tk()
 frame = tkinter.Frame(window, width=800, height=800)
 frame.pack()

 tkinter.Label(frame, text="Current time: ").pack()

 text = scrolledtext.ScrolledText(frame, height=10) ##
 text.pack() ##

 clock1 = Clock(frame)
 clock1.pack()
 clock1.configure(bg='white', fg='black', font=("helvetica", 65))

 tkinter.Label(frame, text=" ").pack()

 b = tkinter.Button(frame, text='Quit', command=quit)
 b.pack(side=tkinter.RIGHT)
 b2 = tkinter.Button(frame, text='Lap', command=lambda :text.insert("end", time.strftime("%I:%M:%S")+'n')) ##
 b2.pack(side=tkinter.LEFT)

 window.mainloop()