Python GUI Programming Cookbook, Second Edition - Second Edition

How to do it...

First, let's move the creation of the thread into its own method and then call this method from the button callback method:

    # Running methods in Threads    def create_thread(self):        self.run_thread = Thread(target=self.method_in_a_thread)         self.run_thread.start()                          # start the thread    # Button callback    def click_me(self):         self.action.configure(text='Hello ' + self.name.get())        self.create_thread()

Clicking the button now results in the create_thread method being called, which, in turn, calls the method_in_a_thread method.

First, we create a thread and target it at a method. Next, we start the thread that runs the targeted method in a new thread:

The GUI itself runs in its own thread, which is the main thread of the application. ...