Re: [pygame] sockets and events

[Doug Partridge <dpartrid@lawson.comp.utas.edu.au>]

> Another method is to use a separate thread for the socket handling, and
> somehow have that thread in a safe manner pygame.event.post() USEREVENT:s,
> or using some other mean handle the event.
> 

This seems the most appealing option, especially if I can just start up a
simple thread and then forget about it.

So, how do I do threads? Would something like this work :

# assuming there is a socket already make called sock
import select
import thread
SOCKETEVENT = USEREVENT + 0
def socket_has_data_thread(sock):
	event = pygame.event.Event(SOCKETEVENT, {'socket':sock})
	while 1:
		r, w, x = select.select([sock], [], [])
		pygame.event.post(event)

thread.start_new_thread(socket_has_data_thread, (sock,))



Also, is it ok to just keep using the same event over and over again?

Thanks


Doug Partridge


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