simple-stopwatch

A very simple python3, ncurses based terminal stopwatch.

simple-stopwatch is not designed to be as precisely as possible and does not support milliseconds precision, but should be fine for simple tasks like measuring the time during a speech.

Installation

run

# python setup.py install

in the root directory of this repository.

Arch Linux users can use the PKGBUILD-git file to create a package.

$ wget https://raw.github.com/mychris/simple-stopwatch/master/PKGBUILD-git
$ makepkg -p PKGBUILD-git

Usage

$ simple-stopwatch --help
usage: simple-stopwatch [--hours-always]
                        [--color {black,blue,cyan,green,magenta,none,red,white,yellow}]
                        [--center] [--start-at TIME] [--countdown]
                        [--auto-exit]
                        [--color-zero {black,blue,cyan,green,magenta,none,red,white,yellow}]
                        [--help] [--version]

Simple ncurses based terminal stopwatch.
Press space to pause, r to reset and q to exit.

optional arguments:
    --hours-always        display hours always
    --color {black,blue,cyan,green,magenta,none,red,white,yellow}
                          the color to use
    --center              center stopwatch
    --start-at TIME       start with specified time defined in hh:mm:ss format
    --countdown           use stopwatch as countdown timer
    --auto-exit           auto exit if countdown reaches zero
    --color-zero {black,blue,cyan,green,magenta,none,red,white,yellow}
                          the color to use if countdown reaches zero
    --help                show this help message and exit
    --version             show program's version number and exit

License

Copyright (C) 2013 Christoph Göttschkes <just dot mychris at googlemail dot com>

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.