I made a better chat client following help from people:
They told me that if I didn't want to be blocked on .recv when waiting for
messages, I would need to use threads, classes, functions, and queues
to do so.
So I followed some help a specific person gave me where I created a thread from
a class and then defined a function that was supposed to read incoming messages
and print them.
I also created a function that allows you to enter stuff to be sent off.
Thing is, when I run the program. Nothing happens.
Can somebody help point out what is wrong? (I've asked questions and researched
for 3 days, without getting anywhere, so I did try)
from socket import *
import threading
import json
import select
print("Client Version 3")
HOST = input("Connect to: ")
PORT = int(input("On port: "))
# Create Socket
s = socket(AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM)
s.connect((HOST,PORT))
print("Connected to: ",HOST,)
#-------------------Need 2 threads for handling incoming and outgoing
messages--
# 1: Create out_buffer:
Buffer = []
rlist,wlist,xlist = select.select([s],Buffer,[])
class Incoming(threading.Thread):
# made a function a thread
def Incoming_messages():
while True:
for i in rlist:
data = i.recv(1024)
if data:
print(data.decode())
# Now for outgoing data.
def Outgoing():
while True:
user_input=("Your message: ")
if user_input is True:
Buffer += [user_input.encode()]
for i in wlist:
s.sendall(Buffer)
Buffer = []
Thanks for taking a look, thanks also to Tony The Lion for suggesting this
If the code isnt done right, here's a link to view it, and download:
View: http://i1267.photobucket.com/albums/jj554/owatch/PPP_zps4beb891b.png
Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?u51a9b5axfffoxl
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