Button click counter in Python

Question

I am trying to write a Python program to count how many times a button is clicked. I have written the following code:

import tkinter
from tkinter import ttk


def clicked(event):
    event.x = event.x + 1
    label1.configure(text=f'Button was clicked {event.x} times!!!')


windows = tkinter.Tk()
windows.title("My Application")
label = tkinter.Label(windows, text="Hello World")
label.grid(column=0, row=0)
label1 = tkinter.Label(windows)
label1.grid(column=0, row=1)
custom_button = tkinter.ttk.Button(windows, text="Click on me")

custom_button.bind("<Button-1>", clicked)
custom_button.grid(column=1, row=0)
windows.mainloop()

I know that event.x is used to capture the location of mouse. And hence the result of the program is not as expected. I want something else. Can you please help me solve the issue.

furas · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-05 13:53:19Z

9

You don't need event for this. You need own variable to count it.

And it has to be global variable so it will keep value outside function.

count = 0

def clicked(event):
    global count # inform funtion to use external variable `count`

    count = count + 1

    label1.configure(text=f'Button was clicked {count} times!!!')

EDIT: Because you don't need event so you can also use command= instead of bind

import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import ttk


count = 0

def clicked(): # without event because I use `command=` instead of `bind`
    global count

    count = count + 1

    label1.configure(text=f'Button was clicked {count} times!!!')


windows = tk.Tk()
windows.title("My Application")

label = tk.Label(windows, text="Hello World")
label.grid(column=0, row=0)

label1 = tk.Label(windows)
label1.grid(column=0, row=1)

custom_button = ttk.Button(windows, text="Click on me", command=clicked)
custom_button.grid(column=1, row=0)

windows.mainloop()

edited Jul 5, 2019 at 13:53

answered Jul 5, 2019 at 13:49

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Man_From_India Over a year ago

Have to check it. The event instance is unused. Will it give warning?

furas Over a year ago

if you use bind then function need variable event but if you use command= then it doesn't need event. If you want to use function with both then you can use event=None - def clicked(event=None) - and bind will run with event and command will run with None

Sandamal · Accepted Answer · 2021-03-18 09:37:39Z

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I don't know is this best way or not, but this code is worked

import tkinter as tk

class Main():

    def __init__(self, root):
        self.root = root
        self.count = 0

        frame = tk.Frame(self.root)
        frame.pack()

        btn = tk.Button(frame, text ='click me')
        btn.pack()
        btn.bind('<Button-1>', self.click)

        self.lbl = tk.Label(frame, text = 'Count is 0')
        self.lbl.pack()

    def click(self, event):
        self.count += 1
        self.lbl.config(text=f'count {self.count}')


if __name__=="__main__":
    root = tk.Tk()
    Main(root)
    root.mainloop()

answered Mar 18, 2021 at 9:37

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Delrius Euphoria Over a year ago

Thank you for this code snippet, which might provide some limited, immediate help. A proper explanation would greatly improve its long-term value by showing why this is a good solution to the problem and would make it more useful to future readers with other, similar questions. Please edit your answer to add some explanation, including the assumptions you’ve made.

user11744271 · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-05 13:59:15Z

0

You can add 'counter' as an attribute with a decorator like this:

def static_vars(**kwargs):
    def decorate(func):
        for k in kwargs:
            setattr(func, k, kwargs[k])
        return func
    return decorate


@static_vars(counter=0)
def clicked(event):
    clicked.counter += 1

answered Jul 5, 2019 at 13:59

user11744271

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Cnoobplusplus · Accepted Answer · 2024-01-18 09:05:42Z

You can add a counter to the widget and use that in your event function. This should work for buttons, entries, etc. This allows the user to reuse the event function.

Useful for when you want to change appearances of entry boxes (e.g. showing example of an entry which disappears on first focus but not second)

import tkinter
from tkinter import ttk

def clicked(event):
    event.widget.count = event.widget.count + 1
    label1.configure(text=f'This button was clicked {event.widget.count} times!!!')

windows = tkinter.Tk()
windows.title("My Application")

label = tkinter.Label(windows, text="Hello World")
label.grid(column=0, row=0)
label1 = tkinter.Label(windows)
label1.grid(column=0, row=1)

custom_button = tkinter.ttk.Button(windows, text="Click on me")
custom_button.count =0
custom_button.bind("<Button-1>", clicked)
custom_button.grid(column=1, row=0)

custom2_button = tkinter.ttk.Button(windows, text="Click on me")
custom2_button.count = 0
custom2_button.bind("<Button-1>", clicked)
custom2_button.grid(column=1, row=0)

windows.mainloop()

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