[Tutor] A thread gui chat problem

[Daryl G]

Hi,
I seem to be having a problem with threading in my chat gui client program
The  thread run method only accepts two recieve mesages and thats it and I
don't see why it does that. If I change the code in the run method to just
add a number to itself it works fine.
The chat server is a script I got from strout.net and sends messages it 
receives to all clients.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks
Daryl

#code
import threading, time
from Tkinter import *
import string
import sys
from socket import *


#Gui Class
class App:

     def __init__(self, master):

         #initialize socket variables for theclient
         self.HOST='localhost'
         self.BUFSIZ = 1024
         self.PORT=4000
         self.ADDR= (self.HOST, self.PORT)
         self.tcpCliSock= socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM)
         self.tcpCliSock.connect(self.ADDR)

         #initalize Gui
         self.senddata=StringVar()
         self.recdata=StringVar()
         self.frame = Frame(master)
         self.frame.pack()

         self.send=Button(self.frame, text='Send', command=self.sendData)
         self.send.pack(side=LEFT)

         self.sendtext=Entry(self.frame, width=50,
textvariable=self.senddata)
         self.sendtext.pack(side=LEFT)

         self.rectext=Entry(self.frame, width=50,
textvariable=self.recdata)
         self.rectext.pack(side=RIGHT)

         #display  text in gui
         self.senddata.set('send chat area')
         self.recdata.set('receive area')


     def sendData(self):
         str= self.senddata.get()
         self.tcpCliSock.send(str)

     #display received message in text entry rectext widget
     def recData(self, data):

         self.data=data
         self.recdata.set(data)

#threading class module for receiving threads and calling recData method in
App
class msgThread(threading.Thread):
   def __init__(self):


       threading.Thread.__init__(self)

   def run(self):
       #add=1
       while 1:  #I get the same thing both with and without a while loop
           #print add

           data=app.tcpCliSock.recv(1024)
           app.recdata.set(data)

           #print data
           #add=add+1

           #time.sleep(1)
           #print 'sleep'

root = Tk()
classtitle="chater"
root.title(classtitle)
app = App(root)

#Screen resolution must be set to 1024X768 or Gui  will be off the screen if
#the resolution is smaller
root.geometry('%dx%d+%d+%d' % (660,20,210,690))

thread= msgThread()
thread.start()

root.mainloop()
app.tcpCliSock.close()
#end
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