Kivy Cookbook

Scheduling a one-time event

A one-time event is one of those clock-related events where you perform an event just once after some time has passed.

Getting ready

In this recipe, it is assumed that the reader is acquainted with the Kv language and widgets, especially with labels. Also, we will implement the concept of using a mouse to perform the actions that we learned in Chapter 2, Input, Motion, and Touch, particularly for this recipe, using the mouse to perform the actions.

How to do it…

To complete this recipe, follow these steps:

1. First, in the KV file, let's declare an empty label. You can do this by using the following code:

   <MyW>:
       Label:
           id: label1
           pos: 200,200
           text: ''

2. Then in the Python code, import the Clock object instance.
3. In the widget class, ...