Modify the bluetooth communications into a threading class

[sapasu]

this was the bit i was confused on, not sure how to make the bluetooth code into a threading class

[furlow]

oh right okay, I will try and help you out

[furlow]

For the bluetooth comms threading class, (we'll put this in a separate file as well) you need to do something as i've explained bellow

#The bluetooth_comms class is inheriting the threading.
#Thread class, that's what's happening here
class bluetooth_comms(threading.Thread): 

     def __init__(self, data): #initlization function for the class
         #As with any inheritance in any language you have 
         #to call the base class constructor to initalize the base class
         threading.Thread.__init__(self)
         #This line creates self.data and copies data to it
         self.data = data

     #This function overrides/re-defines the run method for the threading.Thread class
     #So this is the section of code that runs when you use the start method
     def run(self):
         #put the rest of the operation of the bluetooth code in here

In your main function you import the library

from bluetooth_comms import *

data = [0,0,0,0]

#This creates a new instance of the bluetooth_comms class, 
#It calls the __init__ function
comms = bluetooth_comms(data) 

#Starts the bluetooth comms
comms.start()

Now when you read data it will be updated with what ever the bluetooths_comms class changes

[furlow]

Basically we need to create a thread object details can be found at http://docs.python.org/2/library/threading.html#thread-objects

[sapasu]

Oh right, I get what to do in the main function, I have done that already and put it on github. but will have a go at the bluetooth function itself later tomorrow. Cheers.

I have done some stuff and put it on to the threading branch, let me know if you cant see it.

[furlow]

Yeah your changes have made it into the threading branch. Let me know if you need anymore help on this

[furlow]

everything on the previous link I posted is very useful. you might want to look at http://docs.python.org/2/library/threading.html#timer-objects