Tkinter GUI Programming by Example

Implementing the ListeningThread class in our ChatWindow

To make use of our new ListeningThread, we just need to import it and call its start method:

...from listeningthread import ListeningThread...def __init__(self, master, friend_name, friend_username, friend_avatar, **kwargs):    ...    self.listening_thread = None    self.listen()

After importing the class, we add a listening_thread attribute to our __init__ method, then call the listen method to get our ListeningThread running:

def listen(self):    self.listening_thread = ListeningThread(self, self.master.username,                                             self.friend_username)    self.listening_thread.start()

We set our listening_thread attribute to an instance of the ListeningThread class, passing it our username and friend_username. We ...