How do I display the app while also calling another function simultaneously?

[TechPro424]

I'm trying to recreate the UNO card game using GuiZero, and all my backend logic is in a file called logic, and runs when I call the function logic.main()
However, on importing logic in my entrypoint file (the file I run to start the program), and calling logic.main() after app.display(), logic.main() is not called as app.display() is blocking further execution.
logic.main() is a function that runs in an infinite loop using while True: till one of the players has no cards, so I cannot call that before displaying the app.
How do I display the app while also calling the logic.main() function?

[TechPro424]

I tried using app.after(10, logic.main).
The function was called, but the app stopped responding.

[bsimmo]

I tried using app.after(10, logic.main). The function was called, but the app stopped responding.

With the way you are using it, you need to remove your while loop in the game code.
The app.after calls the 'what was the while loop' and runs through that bit of code.

If you need any further help, pop to the RPi forum and ask in the python section.

(While this isn't Pi specific, it is/was developed from within the RPi Foundation, even if they don't work there any more)

[bsimmo]

Oh ,just noticed there is now discussions z so ignore the above.
Thanks @lawsie for adding this :-)

[martinohanlon]

There is some advice here - https://lawsie.github.io/guizero/blocking/ You could also look at methods for threading and sharing state between your GUI and your game. However... you may find that it is simpler and easier to rewrite your logic code to work using an event driven model.

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[TechPro424]

Any examples of event driven models you can provide? I'm not too familiar with them.

[bsimmo]

Look at the sensehat example I wrote, but somehow doesn't have me as the author. (If on a pi you can change to sense_emu to actually run it) There is also auto_update... , after_repeat... , app_events...

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[lawsie]

Sorry that there isn't a credit, is it this one? Very happy to add a credit in the comments (or you can add a PR for it)?
https://github.com/lawsie/guizero/blob/master/examples/sensehat_read_data.py

[martinohanlon]

There are lots of examples in the repo. Including a game called floodit which give you some inspiration. https://github.com/lawsie/guizero/blob/master/examples/floodit.py

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[TechPro424]

Yes, I think I understand how to go about it now. Thank you so much!

[bsimmo]

I remember when these where edited for a tidy up by the now author, that and many others lost the original creator. I was surprised GitHub could loose them

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