Question

I currently have a button triggering this:

def spam(self,event):
        t = workingthread()
        t.start()

Which goes to this:

class workingthread(threading.Thread):

    def __init__(self):
        threading.Thread.__init__(self)

        def run(self):
               while 1:
                       chat = skype.CreateChatWith(name)
                       chat.SendMessage(message)
                       time.sleep(timeou)

I’m trying to have this be toggled but I’ve heard there’s no way to stop threads and I don’t really want to use multiprocessing. Any other ways i could get this to work without lagging the wx gui?

Answer 1

You could try something like this, which I have done myself.

from Queue import Queue
import threading

class workingthread(threading.Thread):

    def __init__(self):
        threading.Thread.__init__(self)
        self._queue = Queue()

    def run(self):
        while True:

            item = self._queue.get(block=True)
            if item is None:
                return

            name, message = item
            chat = skype.CreateChatWith(name)
            chat.SendMessage(message)

    def processOne(self, data):
        self._queue.put_nowait(data)

    def stop(self):
        self._queue.put(None)

This is a rough example obviously, but you create a queue that blocks in the thread. You start the thread whenever you want and it runs. It waits for you to trigger it or stop it.