great help, and great link, thanks again. shawn On 12/30/06, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
shawn bright wrote: > Kent, Thanks. > this is great. Yes, when i start the thread, i also pass the gtk object > to it. > kinda like this. > > serial_1 = Serial1(self.serial_1_buffer, self.serial_1_view) > serial_1.start() > > so i am wanting to change that, but i do not exactly know how to stop a > thread once i have it running, so that i could start another one. The usual way to stop a thread is to set a flag that the thread checks. Here is an example using a threading.Event as a flag: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/65448 > anyway, thanks for the link and the info, i am going to get started on > testing this right away. This long a .py script is becomming a headache > and i think it will be easier by far if it is pulled apart somewhat. Yes, 4000 lines is pretty long for one file IMO. Kent
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