Reading/Writing Multiple Serial Inputs and Outputs using NMEA protocol

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@edwinnch

Is there a good reference to understand the threading concept used here ?

See the Java documentation for Thread.enumerate(). The purpose is to relatively reliably iterate through other threads looking for a matching name. So it can be killed off.

@edwinnch

The monitorToledo(ctPath, myThread) function has 2 arguments but are not called anywhere

It is called from background as callable. You should expect to write a suitable monitor*() function that suites your protocol requirements.

@edwinnch

The moment i clicked onto it in preview mode, ignition seems not responding

That's because background() must be called from a background thread, such as from invokeAsynchronous(). I should document that a bit better. In my actual usage of this code, I use the callAsync() function from later.py to wrap that for me:

Update GUI via Asynchronous thread

Since this sort of thing pops up often, I created a set of wrappers that simplify this stuff, and allows you to directly use functions in your script modules. The wrappers take care of stuffing the arguments you supply into a temporary fuction’s default argument. For your case, try assignLater(). Nick’s example becomes: # In a script module in your project: import shutil def fileTransfer(label): path = system.file.openFile() newPath = "F:\NewFolder" shutil.copy2(path, newPath) sh…