EyeRest

Functionality

• This is a simple app built on Tkinter (included in Python) to facilitate regular eye rest while working on computers.
• The current version of the app covers the screen during breaks with overlay; the escape icon exits this notification countdown and starts a new cycle.
• The stop button resets the timer; the timer will begin from 0 until the new (if updated) work interval has elapsed.

Build EyeRest

This app is currently configured only for Windows.

• First, ensure you have Python installed (this was written with Python 3.12.3; it may run on earlier versions, but that is not guaranteed). Make sure it's added to your PATH during installation (in Windows, you can check this by opening a terminal and entering python --version).
• Open Visual Studio Code and clone this repository (git clone https://github.com/ianzhou01/EyeRest on the terminal).
• Navigate to the cloned folder in a terminal; run python -m venv .venv; ./.venv/Scripts/activate; pip install -r requirements.txt to install dependencies in the environment.
  • If running ./.venv/Scripts/activate fails, you might not have permissions to run batch scripts. Try Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope Process -ExecutionPolicy Bypass ./.venv/Scripts/Activate.ps1 instead.
• Run pyinstaller EyeRest.spec and wait for the process to finish.
• The executable should now be created in the dist directory.