comparison visualclient/visclient.py @ 35:ea2ec5f95ad8

some changes to visclient before Barbican

 FADE = 15
 DIST = 0.15 # blob equivalence tolerance
 FRAMERATE = 60
 
 # Connection:
-IP = "127.0.0.1:8030"
+# IP = "127.0.0.1:8030"
 # IP = "192.168.2.158:8030"
-# IP = "138.37.95.215"
+IP = "138.37.95.215"
 HTTP_TIMEOUT = 3
 SERVER_UPDATE_INTERVAL = 0.8
 
 
 class Indicator(object):

 		
 	def start_update_thread(self):
 		'''Start the thread that reads data from the server.'''
 		self.thread = Thread(target = self.update_thread)
 		self.thread.daemon = True
+		self.running = True		
 		self.thread.start()
-		self.running = True
 		print "OK. Update thread started."
 		
 	def stop_update_thread(self):
 		'''Stop the thread and allow some time fot the connections to close.'''
 		self.running = False

 		except :
 			print "No update thread to join."
 
 	def update_thread(self):
 		'''The server update thread'''
+		print "Thread reporting..."
 		while self.running :
 			# self.update()
 			try :				
 				self.update()
 				# self.indicators["update"].visible = True