threading in kivy example

threading in kivy example · GitHub

from kivy.app import App from kivy.lang import Builder from kivy.uix.boxlayout import BoxLayout from kivy.properties import StringProperty from kivy.clock import mainthread

import threading import time

class MyBL(BoxLayout): counter = 0 data_label = StringProperty("Nothing yet!")

def __init__(self, **kwargs): super().__init__(**kwargs) threading.Thread(target=self.get_data).start()

def get_data(self): while App.get_running_app(): # get data here # sock.recv(1024) or how you do it time.sleep(1)

# if you change the UI you need to do it on main thread self.set_data_label(self.counter)

self.counter += 1

@mainthread def set_data_label(self, data): self.data_label = str(data)

KV = """ MyBL: Label: font_size: "30sp" text: "Some Data" Label: font_size: "30sp" text: root.data_label """

class MyApp(App): def build(self): return Builder.load_string(KV)

MyApp().run()