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Do not wait for show message to finish
I have a program that relies on the joystick always being active, and if I call the function show_message(), it stops the system till the text has finished scrolling. Is there a way to stop it doing this and do it in the background? Thanks
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Re: Do not wait for show message to finish
Hi there, I remember you from last time! You want to look into the Python threading module. This allows you to kick off a function and return immediately to go onto the next line of code leaving the function to run in the background.
Example:
Example:
I hope this helps.
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import time import threading as th from sense_hat import SenseHat sense = SenseHat() def message_shower(message): global sense sense.show_message(message) def show_message_background(message): th.Thread(target=message_shower, args=(message,)).start() show_message_background("my name is Dave") while True: print("sleeping...") time.sleep(1)
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