[Tutor] re:A thread gui chat problem

[Roman Suzi]

On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Daryl G wrote:

>I FIGURED IT OUT!!!!!!!!
>I'm a moron and a genius all in one?!?..... I hate it when I post a
>question, then figure it out.

It's very comman to solve something right after the formulation.

>I suddenly (5 minutes ago) decided to see what would happen f I put the data
>socket receive line inside a try statement in the thread run method
>And it WORKED!!
>
>Yippie!!!!
>I just don't know why that worked. Could  anyone explain if possible please?
>Any additional suggestions are helpful too. Thanks!
>Also, to get a window to pop back up on top of other windows, would I use
>deiconify?
>
>New code in run method
>
>class msgThread(threading.Thread):
>    def __init__(self):
>
>
>
>        threading.Thread.__init__(self)
>
>    def run(self):
>
>        while 1:
>            #put socket receive statement  in try loop. Works now!!
>            try:
>                  data=app.tcpCliSock.recv(1024)
>            except:
>                  pass

Have you tried to output some debug info from here like
sys.exc_info()
(and print it with one of the module traceback functions
to some log-file?)

(I still feel like maybe your program is not correct, but am not
sure why, because have not dealt enough with threads.)

>            app.recdata.set(data)

Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi
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